I really hate the sentiment that you must be under the influence of something to reach a certain level of creativity. Some artists have found success with this and that’s fine, but it is not a requirement. Not even for the most surreal and otherworldly art.
I noticed the same, when tired my brain take shortcuts and is far better at fast solving, but I lack the long view in this state. Brains are amazingly interesting.
I write my best when I’m depressed. I’m okay with finding alternative routes for that, though weed isn’t one of them. I find weed helps me when I’m doing visual art, but when writing? Weed practically renders me incapable.
I now understand why writers’ usual substances of choice are alcohol and caffeine.
Dépend, if you are ADHD canabis is an amazing way to increase the symptom and trigger an hyperfocus while going at 200% on all directions, great for a créativity boost. Whole reducing canabis and increasing active plant like caféine help reduce the symptom and make it easy to speak to neuro-typical.
May be he had ADD or ADHD and used this to trigger what was called creative transe.
My bad I missed the no requirement part.
Yeah I join you on the sentiments, but I am not convinced artist need drug to create, like you are.
so you’re saying i should stop drinking coffee when I wake up and instead just smoke a bowl? I feel like I’m not as creative as I used to be, and my drug of choice has been coffee for the past 15 years…
Prior to transitioning I always said the two substances by brain required to function were cannabis and either caffeine or adderal, stimulant+weed kept me functioning tolerably even when I really didn’t feel like it. Now estradiol is on the list too lol
I really hate the sentiment that you must be under the influence of something to reach a certain level of creativity. Some artists have found success with this and that’s fine, but it is not a requirement. Not even for the most surreal and otherworldly art.
Also there are other ways to poke that side of brain. Most of the good abstract art I write was under sleep derivation.
Then again, I mainly write code, but it was still up to interpretation what that snippet is supposed to do.
I noticed the same, when tired my brain take shortcuts and is far better at fast solving, but I lack the long view in this state. Brains are amazingly interesting.
I write my best when I’m depressed. I’m okay with finding alternative routes for that, though weed isn’t one of them. I find weed helps me when I’m doing visual art, but when writing? Weed practically renders me incapable.
I now understand why writers’ usual substances of choice are alcohol and caffeine.
Redbull and vodka for devs XD.
Dépend, if you are ADHD canabis is an amazing way to increase the symptom and trigger an hyperfocus while going at 200% on all directions, great for a créativity boost. Whole reducing canabis and increasing active plant like caféine help reduce the symptom and make it easy to speak to neuro-typical. May be he had ADD or ADHD and used this to trigger what was called creative transe. My bad I missed the no requirement part. Yeah I join you on the sentiments, but I am not convinced artist need drug to create, like you are.
so you’re saying i should stop drinking coffee when I wake up and instead just smoke a bowl? I feel like I’m not as creative as I used to be, and my drug of choice has been coffee for the past 15 years…
Prior to transitioning I always said the two substances by brain required to function were cannabis and either caffeine or adderal, stimulant+weed kept me functioning tolerably even when I really didn’t feel like it. Now estradiol is on the list too lol
I dunno, I am no expert, it work for me. I usually smoke the day I remote work and take coffee the days I work in the office. Do what work for you ;)
This is wrong. You cannot imagine what you cannot imagine. Psychedelics definitely allow you to imagine what you previously could not.