Do you do drugs? How does it interact with your meditation?

[fluffy]

I do a bit of Vicodin. It crunks my meditation a fair bit but I press on. It's shallow and noisy but the post meditation high etc is still pretty good.

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Sometimes I think that meditating while high is like lifting weights. The additional noise ups the challenge. Also I think that when I die the noise will probably be really high so it's good practice for that.

 

[Reynard]

I don't really do drugs. In the past I've smoked a bit of weed with some friends, but it just made me cough and gave me the munchies

Otherwise, it's just alcohol, and I find it hinders meditation. (Granted, there's a sweet spot just as you loosen up but before you feel drunk, and I sometimes perform magic in this space - but still, it doesn't do much for meditation.)

However, when I'm very drunk, I do find my creativity has no limits - I'll draw or write, and the next morning I find strange poetry or doodles or little stories which are confusing and surreal - beautiful stuff that I only vaguely remember creating, as though it had happened in a dream.

(Maybe this is a form of automatic writing? Maybe I'm channelling something? Or maybe I just enjoy a good old piss-up. Perhaps I'll experiement over a bottle of whiskey this evening... )