/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7957287]

How do you read while high??????

I wanna smoke a j and read a novel but I always get distracted

[Anonymous No.7957290]

Maybe learn English first, moran

[Anonymous No.7957291]

>>7957287
Audio books.

[Anonymous No.7957300]

>>7957287
I can't read while real high, too much stuff goin on inside

[Anonymous No.7957303]

>>7957287
Easy stuff, big text.
or>>7957291


Better just watch some Spongebob or Seinfeld though

[Anonymous No.7957304]

>>7957287
Re-read stuff you've already read.
Read poetry.
Read stuff like invisible cities, where the plot isn't very important.

[Anonymous No.7957306]

I can't focus on anything other than a short poem

[Anonymous No.7957316]

Wait till you're starting to come down a little

[Anonymous No.7957325]

>>7957304
invisible cities is a great rec for this situation tbqh

[Anonymous No.7957327]

>>7957287
check out what's new on pornhub

[Anonymous No.7957329]

>>7957327
Sometimes I'm horrified by the things I fantasize about when I'm high

[Anonymous No.7957344]

Why don't you try smoking less and reading? Such a little amount that feel a little high but not easily distracted. Which by the way is called being stoned and not high.

[Anonymous No.7957345]

>intentionally damaging your mind

stoners are the most boring people on earth

[Anonymous No.7957361]

>>7957345
I don't know, you sound pretty boring yourself.

[Anonymous No.7957364]

Not sure if you smoke tobacco OP, but I find rolling a spliff helps. The memory boosting effects of nicotine help me retain what I read, although I still have to reread more than if I had been sober. Patience and intentional directed focus help. Sit down somewhere pleasant, take time to acknowledge your surroundings, and then consciously decide that reading is how you will be using this time before actually opening the book.

[Anonymous No.7957369]

They just don't go well together. Being a daily smoker really has a big effect on my overall reading abilities - even if I didn't smoke since last night.

[Anonymous No.7957370]

wtf is wrong with stoners

[Anonymous No.7957375]

>>7957364
How the hell do you Americans smoke medical grade skunk without making spliffs? i always wondered

[Anonymous No.7957377]

Fucking degenerates itt

[Anonymous No.7957382]

>>7957375
Explain?

[Anonymous No.7957384]

>>7957375
Canadian here. When I went to Belgium some nice lads smoked a joint with me and I took a huge haul off it because I didn't know you guys mix cigarettes in with the weed. I almost puked, had a crazy head rush. we had a good laugh over the cultural differences.
Inhaling tobacco is disgusting, I only like cigars and pipe tobacco.

[Anonymous No.7957385]

>all these people hating on stoners
>not realizing the voice of our generation is a stoner

[Anonymous No.7957386]

>>7957377
Ah, but it is you who is the degenerate!

[Anonymous No.7957387]

>>7957375
As an American, I have no clue. My roommate blazes bowl after bowl of high quality herb to the point where she's borderline catatonic. I prefer a spliff, it smokes better, faster effects, and a more lucid high. Noone else I know smokes spliffs though.

[Anonymous No.7957389]

>>7957325
It was a great experience

[Anonymous No.7957395]

>>7957384

Belgian here, had a similar experience when smoking with an American

[Anonymous No.7957404]

smoking is reading is impossible. if you somehow convince yourself that you are actually reading the words there is still the problem of actually remembering those words and putting them together to make sense

[Anonymous No.7957409]

>>7957287

You dose much lower than you would otherwise, or you stick to poetry.

[Anonymous No.7957411]

>>7957404
eXpAnD YoUr MiNd MaN

[Anonymous No.7957412]

>>7957404

shut up you're just a 4channer who never went outside all his life, if i wanna smoke a blunt and read you're not gonna stop me. stay inside loser. you'll never know what it feels like to have fun.

[Anonymous No.7957416]

>>7957412
> *tips foreskin*
> muh hedonism

[Anonymous No.7957430]

Smoked weed every day for a semester. Had a 3.5 gpa in the last year of a philosophy program at a tier 1.5 university.

Tips:

i) Don't smoke too much
ii) Don't smoke when you're under pressure to get through a large volume of material that you don't understand very well.
iii) Allow your self more heterorthodox methods of comprehension

Explanations:
i) If you smoke too much you'll just turn retarded. It's best to smoke very, very low volumes. I'd smoke a pinch at a time. I'd have very lucid highs. That's the thing with weed: You smoke too much and you screw yourself over but there's a very specific amount that if you blaze it, you'll be able to think more clearly than normal and more creatively. To add to this, don't pressure yourself to smoke more. That urge that tells you to smoke more is the same urge that drives you to smoke yourself retarded.
ii) Smoking and reading works best when the material you're dealing with isn't completely new to you: It's better to smoke with the purpose of reflecting on what you know rather than smoking with the purpose of cramming in a shitload of material.
iii) Don't be afraid to just draw gay lil concept maps on a piece of paper or even lying down and reflecting on a paragraph. The biggest tip I can give you (besides my dick ayyy weed lmao) is to not do that thing where you stare at a sentence for 5 minutes. If you don't understand the meaning of a sentence at a glace, take a break. Meditate, go for a 5 minute walk, or something.

You can be a productive stoner. One of my friends runs a company and is getting a graduate degree in electrical engineering while smoking absurd amounts throughout the week. Granted, he's a bit reliant on it.

Oh, and that's another thing, you can get reliant upon weed.

[Anonymous No.7957433]

>>7957430
Smoked weed every day for a year **

[Anonymous No.7957439]

>>7957287
Balance your weed with coffee or tea

[Anonymous No.7957465]

>>7957439
Worked for me

[Anonymous No.7957535]

>>7957287
Of course this thread would flood with angry neckbeards but fuck them. Smoking now and then stirs your brain from stagnation.

As anon above says, a little can go a long way. I take a pinch with (optionally) a drop of tobacco and thats enough for intense awareness and higher fondness for your experiences, without the dip in cognition. Done right the effect is like a relaxed cousin of ritalin.

Just be aware of your state of mind because cannabis is a magnifier of what you already think/feel. If you get into a mindful state beforehand (have a quiet evening, dont overeat, dismiss unpleasant thoughts etc) you will already be in excellent form for thinking and reflecting.

TL;DR: Dont overdo it.

[Anonymous No.7957552]

>>7957439
>>7957465
Does this not make you restless? I like going into a joint fasted, relaxed, no appetites or preoccupations

[Anonymous No.7957589]

>>7957535
>cannabis is a magnifier of what you already think/feel
Such this.
I didn't realize this until I was having a bad trip on acid and thought some weed would calm me down.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think I might have mild ptsd from that experience.

[Anonymous No.7957596]

>>7957387
Are you a guy?
Are you two roommates or suitemates?
If the former do you guys casually fuck each other all the time?
Is she qt?

[Anonymous No.7957631]

>>7957287
audiobooks, ive listened to every hp lovecraft book available while ripped

[Anonymous No.7957689]

>>7957384
Yer a skid there bud, spliffs are good after a long night out. Giving us a bad name...


To answer OPs question: beat poetry, PKD, Tolkien and Borges are all great stoned.

[Anonymous No.7957696]

you don't. you can't retain information when you smoke and you will be too distracted anyway

[iGGY No.7957707]

>>7957287
Go driving

[iGGY No.7957709]

>>7957707

[Anonymous No.7957729]

>>7957345
>He doesn't seek altered states of consciousness

I wouldn't worry too much about that brain you're trying to protect

[Anonymous No.7957739]

>>7957404
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