How to experience a high without drugs?

I’ll take a quick stab at this one really quick, but I’m more interested in knowing what has prevented you from wanting to explore this area for yourself (maybe I can find out via discussion).

So, what does it really mean to be “high?” If you take it as a generalization, and just imagine the concept of emotion and how emotion works, you have to have highs to understand lows…or neutrals…or kinda highs….etc.

In this respect, it becomes pretty clear to me that “high”-ness is just a reflection of user experience. I’ll provide an example: imagine you’ve been eating locally your whole life. You’ve gotten accustomed to the food in your area alone and know what you like a lot, what you hate, and everything in between. If someone comes to you with food from afar, so long as you never taste it, all you will have to place it in perspective is a subjective recommendation from someone else…and faith in their opinion. That said, you still don’t know what it tastes like…you might be moved by the thought of something tasting better than anything you’ve ever tasted…but if you never taste it you’ll never really know.

In this sense, life has so many highs and lows, and each carries a different weight for the person that’s carrying them. For me, when I was told of LSD/Shrooms/Psychedelics I was instantly amazed…I decided I wanted the experiences for myself…to truly understand. Could I have had the highest of highs without these? Yes, of course. Even if Psychedelics gave me the most incredible high I’ve ever experienced, the human mind doesn’t scar you with the gloomy notion that you’ll NEVER have a high as good as the one you had that one time…our minds shift and are constantly making room for shifts in preferences and perspectives.

In summation, there will never be a shortage of highs from the world…I can’t make you place a psychedelic within the range of highs and lows you’ve experienced…but I can ask that you not allow a preconceived notion about a potentially incredible experience distract you from the ever-present fact that…well, it could be an incredible experience.

And as for sobriety, I can hardly contemplate the notion. We humans can make a vice or intoxicant out of anything…it’s just a matter of cross-referencing that little blemish with the societal standard of what is “OK” and what isn’t.

Highs are highs…no one is better than another.

@stereofidelic, the high from running wayyy too much is pretty good

Also, a couple times while in a state of meditative awareness, I felt like all of a sudden I was plugged into some vast electrical field that spanned across everything in the universe. Yeah, it was pretty cool, like a body orgasm, and I felt one with everything and all that kind of hippie shit.

@rickvonstar, :)

@stereofidelic, take drugs and forget you took them. this will surely work.

@vernalsoul, “I tend to over-analyze and be way more observant than most people, which leads to situations where I’m like ‘woah man, did you see that squirrel ? so fucking beautiful.” – lmao Loved It

@noimadsuperlove, hahaha thanks. You would not believe how intrigued i still get watching squirrels, even though I probably see about 20 a day.

I think it’s probably like that for many, when the drugs are taken, you realize you never really needed them in the first place. Because it’s not really about the drug itself, but about in which state of mind you are when you take them.

“When you get the message, hang up the phone” type of thing. I sometimes feel high when I’m completely in the now. That might be because it’s become such a routine to avoid the now, that when I’m actually in it, it’s amazing. I also experience a type of high when I read about other people’s highs.. :) I’ve never tried psychedelics, so I can only say that after smoking weed I changed in the sense that I realized who I already was, I saw myself more clearly and I was able to focus better. It was a good experience, and even though I haven’t smoked since, I still benefit from that high because it was a catalyst to my development. I find that it wasn’t so much the weed itself that changed me, it was rather my choice of opening up to the experience of it. So, probably, if you go into an experience with an open mind, it is much more likely you get anything productive from it. If you go into something with a destructive attitude, destruction is what you get. I think you can manifest your own personal high without drugs, if you are open to it and think more about the change you want to make in yourself rather than you want something else to change you. Sometimes I feel high while cleaning my room, cooking, reading, listening to music, taking a walk, breathing…

Yeah, initially i thought than i can only get high through drugs…but eventually you see there are so many highs in life and you kinda HAVE to discover em because you cant rely on drugs.

For me it usually is going in the nature, of going running, or riding my motorbike at some nice route or listenining to music while thinking positive thoughts or reading quotes or reading books. Generally if you go looking for highs, eventually you will discover what works for you and while i’ve never got the mdma-high yet, i still think i’ve come close sometimes…just using my mind!

@stereofidelic, Alcohol only gives a buzz if you know when to stop. I mean, yeah, it’s legal, but it can be really destructive; personally and socially. I find it strange when people don’t do any drugs but still drink alcohol…though that is the majority of people. If you can stay in the good place with booze then it is really okay but most people I know who look down on other substances do not stay in the zone at all. They talk shit, get sick, fall over and it’s madness!

I’m not judging, I’ve been there myself. But alcohol is a much more insidious than other drugs, I find.

@stereofidelic, Hulk Syndrome! I like that! :D

- Crazy long periods of meditation
- Sensory deprivation, specifically light and sound, for several days in a row
- Somehow achieve a kundalini awakening
- Extended periods of fasting (10+ days)

I get a high after a good day of weights and calisthenics. It’s a much more productive high and you want to do more shit afterwards.