/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19341309]

Books where the protagonist experiments with his own consciousness?

[Anonymous No.19341320]

Cosmic Trigger 1, 2, and 3.

[Anonymous No.19341388]

>>19341309
Valis

[Anonymous No.19341390]

Remember, Be Here Now

[Anonymous No.19341395]

>>19341390
There's always one homosexual in these threads.

[Anonymous No.19341416]

>>19341309
I feel so much smarter when I'm high on weed.

[Anonymous No.19341422]

>>19341309
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.19341426]

>>19341309
Zen flesh zen bones
Gateless gate
Idres Shahs nasrudin books.

[Anonymous No.19341432]

>>19341416
That's because on weed, your brain acts slower, so every minor understanding that would seem fairly obvious to sober you (for example: you could step on a chair to reach the upper portions of a shelf) seem like great revelations and Heureka! moments to your slow brain on weed. It didn't figure out something great, it just took longer to figure out something simple - but it can't tell the two apart.

[Anonymous No.19341458]

>>19341432
No man you're wrong. My mind expands.

[Anonymous No.19341464]

>>19341432
I thought it was because weed brings out my moon, night time, shadow, female personality that's repressed during the day. When I'm not high, I feel like a man and I can't get any words out of my mouth. I don't feel anything and I just sit and wait for time to pass until I might eventually try taking estrogen.

[Anonymous No.19341491]

>>19341458
Your mind slows down, so distances appear larger. Your mind thinks it expands as a result, but it doesn't.

>>19341464
I like the dichotomy of the male and the female. However, I believe that speaking - creating words - is a masculine aspect. If you cannot get words out of your mouth when you are not high, I don't think the words you get out when high are any good.

[Anonymous No.19341493]

>>19341309
A Scanner Darkly

[Anonymous No.19341709]

>>19341491
>goes with the "mind goes slower concept" until the male vs. female comes up and then suddenly forgets it
jokes aside, for anybody not convinced, try playing some sort of high speed multiplayer e-sport (like Q3 or CS) while high: it will seem like you are 2x faster!!!! great!!!!!!!! unfortunately the enemy is 4x faster :(
caveat emptor

[Anonymous No.19341724]

>>19341709
>goes with the "mind goes slower concept" until the male vs. female comes up and then suddenly forgets it
Yeah, when I clicked on post, I forgot to add a disclaimer, and then just didn't want to bother doubleposting.

My disclaimer: the male vs. female thing is obviously absolute bullshit aswell. It's all just physiology of your brain. But some thoughts are interesting to entertain, for the sake of art.
I think the struggle of modern art is trying to derive meaning from mechanically reductive meaninglessness. Even though it is fun to just roll with strange and nonsensical concept, in the back of your head you will always know reality is much less interesting. And constant "Yeah, I know." nagging in the back of your head needs to be accounted for. If we can overcome it, we can make great art again.

(Disclaimer: that last bit was also just artistic rambling.)

[Anonymous No.19341766]

>>19341724
no, lol, you should have doubled down and said that females are slooooooow. I've once helped some people set up an art exhibition and saw two of them (a woman and a man with the brain of a woman) unironically think for 5 minutes how a 1 meter cable could span a gap of 1.5 meters.
they have other advantages. it's better to complete each other than compete (like the feminists do)
>And constant "Yeah, I know." nagging in the back of your head needs to be accounted for. If we can overcome it, we can make great art again.
you will make great art again not by -overcoming- the "Yeah, I know." in the back of the brain but having such a great idea that it shuts up by itself. if one artificially overcomes it, it's almost guaranteed he'll become a slave to some unconscious idea some fuckstick with money to buy advertisements implanted there

[Anonymous No.19341791]

>>19341766
>if one artificially overcomes it
What do you mean by "artificially"?

[Anonymous No.19341840]

>>19341416
The first hour or so is the time when barriers appear to break and shamanic/lucid experiences are possible. However, it does seem to be illusory, because afterwards there is a prolonged (several days) period of doubt and darkness, where any "progress" made during that time seems impossible. Next time I'm going to record myself during that hour and later, come back and listen to see if any of it is valid or if it's all just a ravings of a dope fiend. I'm thinking it's the latter, but maybe I can at least capitalize on some of the ideas for the purposes of writing, making music, or drawing.
>>19341791
By using drugs.

[Anonymous No.19341852]

>>19341840
>By using drugs.
Oh, I never intended to imply that you need to take drugs to overcome the nagging. That would be a short term solution to a structural problem.

[Anonymous No.19341861]

>>19341309
Ubik
The Lathe of Heaven

[Anonymous No.19341944]

>>19341309
Critique of pure reason

[Anonymous No.19341965]

The Red Book

[Anonymous No.19342029]

>>19341965
he said "the protagonist experiments with his own consciousness"
not "I want to mutilate my consciousness"

[Anonymous No.19342487]

>>19341852
>never intended to imply
maybe not you, but a lot of people do take it like that
such demands made psychology reorient itself from psychotherapy that took years (and the therapist had to be a medical doctor) to CBT therapy which takes weeks (conducted by a disgusting SJW who did two years of community college).
it's an issue similar to abortions, isn't it? they solve a big problem pretty quick too

my point is: just because society says it's a problem, it doesn't mean you can't analyze it on your own

[Anonymous No.19342490]

The Red Book

[Anonymous No.19342493]

>>19341309
Pretty much anything by phillip k dick.

[Anonymous No.19342498]

>>19341965
>>19342029
oh Jung's Red Book... sorry for the confusion, maybe next time mention the author

[Anonymous No.19342509]

The Doors of Perception

[Anonymous No.19342545]

>>19341309
Mantissa, I'm not sure tho.

[Anonymous No.19342703]

absolute dogshit thread, saving it

>>19341965
>>19342029
self-fellating upper class aritocrat doesn't count
what did he ever do besides "my dreams were spoopy/slightly weird"

>>19342509
too mainstream

[Anonymous No.19343911]

>>19342498
idiot

[Anonymous No.19344119]

>>19341458
>>19341491
You gain a verbal acuity that enables your brain to notice and appreciate qualitative details you normally overlook or filter.

[Anonymous No.19344171]

>>19341309
Confessions of an English Opium eater is pretty good. It verges on being gothic horror.

[Anonymous No.19344191]

Joy and Elation in Los Santos

[Anonymous No.19344227]

>>19344191
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