Marijuana & Meditation?

[1[Runner]

When I was in college (recently as in I graduated in 08) I smoked marijuana on a regular basis. I wasn't a pot head, but every weekend, I would always have some kind of social where it came out. The we had was powerful. One or two hits and you'd already be feeling the warm. Three to four and you would become stoned, and anything beyond that was always the highest I've ever been every single time I smoked it. There have been times where I just was not able to move because I was just so... gone. Initially I freaked out the first time this happened, but once I got used it, I really began to embrace it for what it was, and below is why. My friends would assume that I was on the verge of passing out, or has passed out from smoking too much. I could understand why they would have thought that. If I closed my eyes I could almost become completely disconnected from the world around me. I would go into this dark void, so highly buzzed from the THC that I could no longer feel myself. While I could still hear what was going around me, it seemed so much more distant than usual. After these experiences, when I smoked on my own, I always smoked enough to return to that most high I've ever been in my life state. I would lay down, and fall back into my dark highly buzzed void, and I would let my imagination go. I would have memories come up out of my subconscious which I would have never recalled otherwise, which I found amazing. For example, one particular memory surfaced from when I was about 11 years old, standing in my backyard with a summer rainstorm about to move in. It seemed like I was able to recall everything perfectly. I could smell freshly cut lawn and pre-rain storm scent (I don't know how else to describe it). SMELL??? I have great difficulty with that scent in lucid dreams, but it was perfect in this experience. I could also remember the warm air blowing against me as the wind was picking up for in the incoming storm. My sense of touch was there too! I did this a few times on my own, each time my imagination being so vivid, almost like I was there, but at the same time... I wouldn't say these experiences resemble the typical lucid dream experience. These experiences were a bit different. They are like having extremely vivid, and extremely clear HI that can involve all of your senses. When you hear MJ intensifies everything, think you normal HI much more intense, but yet much more clear at the same time. For me, it was "recalling a subconscious memory almost perfectly". Is this what some type of meditation is like, or this just another effect of the plant?

[Dannon Oneironaut]

Well, the plant opens up a part of you to experience. But it distorts it and makes it intense. If it feels good, then good. For me I know exactly what you are talking about. I would feel like that for 1/2 hour or an hour and then I would get dumb and sleepy. When meditating you definately get that real high buzz feeling where you can't feel your body, but it will be different. It will be sober. If you don't get that feeling when meditating then you are not meditating. You can meditate high also. But then if you inly meditate when you're high it will be hard to when you are not. That is OK if it is the experience you are after. But if you are into transforming your consciousness then it will be counterproductive.

[KingYoshi]

Welcome to Dreamviews! Man, I remember and miss those days. Unfortunately, after you have smoked every day for the passed 2 years (like I have) you don't really get that, "most high I have ever been" high anymore. I still do it big though

[ldwithadhd]

Im a cop you know. Well, my dad is a cop. he can get you if you dont stop smoking that stuff.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

Im a cop you know. Well, my dad is a cop. he can get you if you dont stop smoking that stuff. Funny!!!

[TomSnare]

Im a cop you know. Well, my dad is a cop. he can get you if you dont stop smoking that stuff. Haha, what are you, 12? Unfortunately, weed always seemed to have a generally negative affect on my dreaming, so I never really tried mixing weed and LDing much, but I do know that disconnect feeling you're talking about. The only way I could describe is like that feeling you get when you wake up and you don't know where you are or what time it is, but it's almost as if it happens in short bursts. Like, unless you're really concentrating, you're not situationally aware at all, so it tends to come in and out.

[Urban Ninja]

Funny!!! Hahaha Very! I think everyone should act based on experience. I can sit here all day and give all the evidence in the world as to why Marijuana is the safest recreational drug, etc. etc. Then someone on this forum can go home, smoke some and have an allergic reaction to it, causing their throat to swell up, making it hard for them to breathe, scaring the living shit out of em..... Make decisions based on your OWN experience! Marijuana is a great thing for MANY people. For others, not so much. For me, Marijuana is great. It heightens the senses, makes my imagination vivid and more active... It makes sex feel AMAZING. It makes food taste delicious. On and on.... I've never tried meditating on Marijuana. I feel like it may make it harder to meditate, but I don't know really. In fact, I'm gonna go smoke and meditate... If I don't come back on tonight, I'll post my results in this thread tomorrow.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

I've never tried meditating on Marijuana. I feel like it may make it harder to meditate, but I don't know really. In fact, I'm gonna go smoke and meditate... If I don't come back on tonight, I'll post my results in this thread tomorrow. I used to smoke all the time and meditate. It makes it easy to meditate for 45 minutes or so. But then I found after 45 minutes I would be too dull to meditate. Also I had trouble meditating if I wasn't stoned.