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Do Drugs Inspire Creative Thinking? (pg. 2)
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| LAdazeNYnights |
Riddle me this:
Does creative thinking inspire drugs? |
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| MSZ |
| met someone online who would make all his songs on meth, he was quite skilled lol. it was a while ago tho, hes probably dead now. also knew a guitarist who thought he was a guitar-god on adderal, well he was pretty impressive. i say do drugs, hoop them if you can. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by MSZ
it was a while ago tho, hes probably dead now. |
lol |
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| Chris Crossland |
| Absolutely. |
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| Sykonee |
| I know I get creatively inspired on the occasion I've indulged, but usually am too useless to make use of said creativity. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Different people have different creative processes, and different styles. I don't think people with rigorous and systematic work flows would benefit from drugs, but people who have looser, more improvised methods and who have more surreal/psychedelic styles probably do.
There's plenty of great art that's clearly the product of drug influence, but again there's a lot of intolerable . Just spend half an hour trawling psy-trance on Beatport to hear some of the utter ing stupidity that results from letting drugs influence the music. |
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| WittyHandle |
| True. Also consider, though, that the current overall state of dance music (while it is getting better) compared to what it was in the 90's/early 00's is significantly related to the quality of drugs available at the the time. |
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| chewy dragee |
| The Wright brothers probably flew quite a few times before they finaly managed to build an aeroplane.... |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
True. Also consider, though, that the current overall state of dance music (while it is getting better) compared to what it was in the 90's/early 00's is significantly related to the quality of drugs available at the the time. |
Yeah, E has declined and so has the quality of uplifting and melodic music, and the popularity of ketamine and so on has lead to a lot of dark, slow and twitchy dance music which us erstwhile laser-grabbing trance fans have always struggled to accept. But there was an awful lot of e dance music trends in the '90s, from toy-town rave to hard dance to Dutch trance, and if you ever thought any of that sounded good it was only because you were rolling your face off. |
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| WittyHandle |
| Ha, no, not this guy. Of course there's almost completely terrible genres at any point in time. Currently Moomba holds that crown imo. I was thinking more of prog from 98-2002 I guess. The heavy drug influence readily apparent, and it worked. |
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| Taipan |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
yes
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| aNYthing |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
Maybe, maybe not. I doubt that there is any real way of testing it, because "creativity" is not a measurable quantity and is so highly individualized, and we have no way of setting up a "control" to see what the same person would have created at that particular time in the absence of drugs.
I do think many creative people are strongly drawn to mind-altering substances, since exploring and manipulating perception, emotion, and imagination comes naturally to them, and drugs provide one means to do that. So the causation may be the other way round; not "drugs --> creative" but "creative --> drugs." And this would still create the same association in popular culture. |
Utter bollox. Based on personal, first hand experience.
1. Painting a room - bored as , work slowly, not happy with my results, I puff few puffs of weed. Turn on music and completely opposite results, done quicker and my edges never looked better.
2. Some of the best melodies and interesting work has between created stoned. I never have such results sober - too afraid to experiment. I can post one of the pieces created while stoned.
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Sex. I don't ever feel so connected as when I'm stoned. My girl has some of the loudest, strongest Os, when I'm blazed. Why? Again, gets more experimental, more adventerous, I'm not as timid.
So, for me, weed opens up my creative side.
But.
I do notice significant short memory impact. Makes concentration and absorption of info for next few days very hard. Considering my job requires a great deal of that, I've been avoiding smoking. Spice, surprisingly gave me similar but weaker and shorter buzz, not entirely unlike sticky, without the memory/concentration problems for next few days. This was an interesting discovery. |
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