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In my experience, being high enhances my musical (and I think generally creative) abilities. Music appreciation and analysis is especially better (maybe because it's the lowest effort thing). Many times when I was high I was listening to a song that I knew very well, but when high I was noticing more sounds in that song, like paying greater attention to guitars or bass in the background, that I wasn't paying attention to while sober. And since that "revelation", my appreciation of that song while sober was better, more detailed - I payed more attention to things that I first noticed while high. I'm also writing my own songs and often while high, the lyrics or melodies just spontaneously come to my mind, like when I'm not even trying to think about creating anything. Improvising music while high is great. But I can also say that there were cases when I created something that sounded bad when sober (but I think is rather an exception). But I'm rather not a neurotypical person so YMMV. There are many examples of musicians that were making great music while high, such like of course the Beatles, and from the 60's I especially like Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, but he's also an example of a guy that went "crazy" because of too much drugs (rather combined with preexisting mental issues). Large part of his best music is not well known because he became a victim of his perfectionism (couldn't finish what he was doing) and generally his ambitious work wasn't selling well - the Beach Boys were at the start a very non-ambitious pop/rock band, just like the Beatles, so going in more ambitious direction meant losing sales, and the rest of the band didn't like it. I think weed enhances curiosity, so it's helping in doing something that's not typical, experimenting with things and seeking new sounds - and that was something that Brian Wilson excelled at in the time when he was high all the time, the "Pet Sounds" album is a highly regarded classic that shows what I'm talking about. And unlike the Beatles, he was the producer of his own music (Beatles' ideas were "filtered" and realized by amazing George Martin who was well-educated and wasn't high, I think). Coding while high on weed is not very good for me, it's hard to concentrate, thoughts flow in too many directions. So I think that in art weed can be a positive, but in other things that need precision and strictly logical thinking, it's negative. Overall weed makes me more lazy. I think that most of the time when high, I'm just browsing internet (that's still not exactly negative because I usually learn many interesting things, but that's not what I would want to spend many hours of my time on). Recently I had a period of smoking too much, and then I was actually doing less music - after that, when I was sober in my free time, I started practicing guitar more, because I was more focused on my goals and more organized in what I was doing. But I'm generally a very chaotic person with a very chaotic life, so I think my experiences can't prove anything, even for me. |