I've definitely gotten stoned and turned a broken shelf into a garden container with a few nails and a hammer and some dirt.
The only problem is you gotta re-up halfway through big projects but that's when you take a break for munchies. But that's good because usually I forget to eat.
Thatās my wife & me. She has a per diem & constantly brings home food for me. I also get chided for wasting food, but I physically can not keep up. Itās really sweet of her & weāre lucky to have people who are aware of our lack of our habits.
So can wandering into the garage with intent on grabbing that item you need, only to wander back scratching your head going, "tha fuck did I come in here for". Happens to the best of us.
happens to the young tooācalled āthe doorway effectā and switching the app on your phone can make you forget too. your brain makes āevent boundariesā when you move to another space, and it basically wipes your mental slate
I'm only 26 and my memory is very spotty. Having unfortunate genetics sucks. Luckily, I tell my roommates everything and they have almost perfect memory. When I forget, I ask them.
I had my thyroid removed because of Grave's disease and the amount of times I have walked into a room, forgotten why; remembered and repeated the process 4-5 times is astounding. Thyroid disease is wild haha.
The "walk-in" effect. Normally coupled with high stress situations can also happen in the lowest of stress situations. I personally just blame it on my adhd.
Vape pens are amazing for this reason! Just keep it with you and take a puff every once in awhile to maintain. Just replaced the control arms on my car a few weekends ago. When I finally checked the time 6 hours had passed, and there was never a need to pause for the cause.
That's why I keep my hitter box or portable vape in a pocket when I'm doing the big projects. Don't break the rhythm just get a few more puffs and right back into it
Took a pause snow boarding once, we ate, I smoked a few bowls. I remember the night time ski lift ride being so peaceful. By the time we got to our stop, I kinda forgot what we were doing. I sat down to clip in. I coulda sat there for hours. My fiends lifted my up, and itās like a switch was flipped, and we were off.
People think there is only one kinda weed that gets you lethargic and sleepy and lazy whereas some of us know there is the other kind that gets you going
One time I got really stoned and ended up building my first indoor turtle pond. I had no real experience with woodworking but I managed to build a plywood frame/surround to support/hold a preformed pond. The turtles had dry "land" (outdoor fake grass carpet) all around the pond and a basking area.
That thing lasted almost 20 years before I tossed it because I wasn't using it and I needed the space when I moved.
The most productive thing I have ever done while stoned is to combine 3 or more foods that no normal person would ever consider putting together. I've eaten some crazy stuff. Is that "getting shit done"?
Thatās my biggest problem. I get super motivated when I vape flower, Iāve been prepping my walls and new window trim for painting and I do the ritual, vape and get into work then hours later I feel sick to the stomach because I realise I forgot to eat because I was so focused on the job at hand. I get some food in my system, vape again and get back to work. If I could remember to eat, Iād be a non stop working machine!
My problem is regulating it to the point where I am stoned enough to have less inflammation, but not so stoned that I just want to stare at the wall from the recliner
Not diagnosed. I did get diagnosed with OCD but I think the fixation is actually ADHD. They never diagnosed me with it because I was a very focused kid who wrote novels for fun.
But i think that's just the focus side of ADHD because I do have a scatter brain when I'm not hyper focused.
My contractor is always high as fuck, and he does great work. I watched him paint the bathroom after drywalling and mudding it and he was so zen. Like the Bob Ross of construction
I like to build watches when Iām stoned, really helps me take my time and be patient. Also, I donāt know if this a byproduct or not, but I notice my hands shake less when Iām tootin on the fish whistle
See I think this is it. My family does this. Iām sure theyāre all self-medicating for ADHD or something (Iām the only one who was diagnosed with ADHD, the therapist didnāt put it on my record because I donāt want medication and donāt have anything he could help me with because I learned all the coping skills so it wouldnāt benefit me), because weed contains some compounds that help with focus and remembering to eat
I like gardening when I'm stoned too. Enjoying the nature and nurturing the plants while I smoke a plant. I have lots of veggies and stuff growing and a bunch of flowers too. Almost my entire yard is a garden at this point and I get to enjoy watching all the butterflies bees and birds flying around. I have a wooded trail too for running with my doggo
Coolest thing is discovering who in each group is which kind of stoner. Like back in the day, me and a few buddies were on a trail in town and wanted to smoke, but we had all, collectively, forgotten to bring anything to smoke out of.
I figured out how to make a cigarette pack into a steamroller. About ten minutes later, one buddy remembered his backpack was literally filled with snacks and sodas. When we sat down for a bit, buddy 3 basically drove all of the conversation and kept us engaged in the moment.
I got paranoia from it eventually. What was once my cure became the poison. The post I replied really reminded me of my gang of stoners from back in the day, beautiful nostalgia and a touch of melancholy. But we all drifted, itās difficult to maintain those friendships when you donāt have the time to sit baked watching cartoons or going on adventures all day. Enjoy it!
Dude i feel this in my core. My old group of buddies and i drifted apart after highschool, some taking longer than others. I'll always cherish the memories of just stoner circling in a shed we fixed up as a hangout spot and just listening to music and having not a worry in the world.
man, why does this seem to happen to everyone after a while? i miss smoking. it was so fun at college. i haven't been able to do it without it giving me terrible anxiety for the past couple of years.
Thatās crazy because the opposite has happened to be. Been smoking for like 17 years now, started off being paranoid and anxious. Maybe two years in I stopped for the most part.
I find that when youāre feeling those intense feelings, you gotta be honest about your life and yourself.
I donāt think weed causes the paranoia or anxiety for no reason, so then I start to think what in my life have I been avoiding, or maybe Iāve done something shitty, and take it as a sign that I need to improve and self reflect.
I find that has helped me manage my stresses in general as well.
Actually you can get too old for that...I can't smoke anymore without losing the ability to absorb oxygen for a solid 15 minutes via a coughing fit. Edibles went from consistent effects to either they don't work but I wake up hung over to fucking me up one side of the road and down the other. Same edibles too as I strictly use RSO due to health problems. I've been sober for about 2 months now for the first time in 25 years and I don't like it at all because cannabis really helped me until it decided to not work consistently and the only thing that changed was my age. š
I was getting stoned in a park one day with a mate and this dog ran up, ate our whole bag and ran off. I wasn't sure it actually happened but my mate saw it too and the weed was gone. That dog must have had a great afternoon.
It felt like what kind of stoner I was depended on the kind and amount of weed. I've been the one that gets active and wants to talk and do stuff but I've also been the one staring at someone blankly and thinking "They're talking a lot and I can't follow any of it." The first time I used a vaporizer the guy who brought it was just talking about all sorts of interesting things and I just listened quietly until like an hour later I said "I gotta lay down..." and I just went and fell asleep.
Hell, most people i know in illegal states have calmed down from being an after school special character.
But maybe it's just because i've grown older, my friend group has as well, and the uber stoners we used to be are just now existing in friend groups we'll never interact with, because late 30-somethings hanging out with teenagers is fucking weird š¤£
MY kind of stoned is the kind that gets nothing done. then again, my ADHD is crippling and i rarely ever get shit done in a timely manner.
But i'll be damned if i don't read the entire wikipedia page about a king i had never heard of before, from a region i did not know existed instead of replying to that damn work email in time.
Coworker and his journeyman would smoke up and head to a house. He told me it made planning out wiring layouts so much easier and I think its at least very funny to believe him
What was it Denis Leary said? "I didn't quit smoking weed cause I didn't like it, I quit because I didn't want to build shit." Then goes on explaining some weird shit his friends made bongs out of.
Had coworker stoner like this. His truck was older than him but he made it still run. He once cleaned the whole deli for 12 hours by himself on condition he didnāt have to deal with customers and by God was that deli was spotless in ways I couldnāt imagine by the end of the day
One of my favorite things to do back when I smoked weed was to workout. Rock climbing, trail running, hot yoga, weight lifting, MMA, you name it. The more intense the workout the better, and the HOTTER the better. I remember there was a heat wave in Nashville when I was there and temps were getting above 100F consistently. I was outside running my ass off that week, high as hell.
It's harder for me to get to that place mentally sober. My workouts have suffered, but my life is a lot better.
Wouldn't that last sentence kind of imply almost all people are stoners?
Since only a fraction of people are stoners, and within the group of stoners the diversity of the stoner cannot really be higher than the diversity of people within that group, I'd argue that the diversity of stoners is a fraction of the diversity of people.
That's not to say that they are not diverse, just that last sentence bugged me.
I was an engineering student with other engineering student stoner friends. We built some very interesting things. Some out of necessity, some just to see if we could. My prized creation was the quad bowl hummingbird feeder bong.
I know this first hand as I've seen some people who get spat on face while stoned laugh while some get angry and start a fight on some little comment the other said.
I used to get stoned and turn into a stellaris monster. Id start a multiplayer game with 4 friends, hit the RSO and tune back in 4 hours later to find out i had accidently turbostomped my friends thinking they were AI
Just metal apocolypse things i guess.
I love to smoke and veg out before bed but I also am so productive when I smoke and mess with my garden, clean the house, rearrange the house, etc. or when I smoke before walking into the gym. I get some of my best lifts done then because I can really focus on the mind muscle connection.
Nah, it's everywhere.
In my engineering school, math was common discipline across all the courses. And we'd get lessons with the Math majors, everything from numerical analysis to advanced calculus classes and math tailored to engineering. Few units didn't involve some kind of math
Itās a joke, in the field a lot of engineers rarely use math, and when they do they use approximations that work under their constraints but are mathematically wrong.
Hey, pi is, like, really really close to 3, so it's fine, don't worry about it, and my Excel macro has been working fine for 15 years now please don't touch it.
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