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MagicalOrangutan
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: botha]
#21792970 - 06/11/15 01:13 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sit around and think about stupid shit and watch TV, that's what realistic people of all sorts do, sober or not lol
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Yep for the piss test, I have used a shampoo like bottle. Make sure it doesn't make sound. And taped hand warmers to the bottle an hour or so before I went in. Wore tight underwear and just kept the bottle under my balls basically. I also got the piss the day of too. Keep it sealed and use hand warmers and hour or so before you go in if piss is at room temp
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: botha]
#21796138 - 06/12/15 05:58 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Pretty good answer, I do most of those while I'm baked anyways lmao
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: UncleFester] 1
#21796650 - 06/12/15 09:50 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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OP,
If your mind is used to being high all the time, it will take a while for your hedonic base levels to return to normal. In other words, your high-self is so used to getting pleasure from just sitting there being high without any real stimulation/activity, so when you stop getting high, you're going to feel abnormally depressed and bored.
In my experience, this takes several weeks to go away, depending on how long you were smoking for. The best way to help it is to do activities and exercise. Go on a hike, work out, go bowling, see friends, play an instrument.
Patience.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: KingKnowledge]
#21797502 - 06/12/15 01:17 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been feeling just like you bro! What I have found in the past week though is smoke less. I can manage being sober for most of the day if I smoke a bowl
in the morning when I get up and then not again till evening time. I've been feeling a lot better since trying this. Before I would sit here and smoke
bowl after bowl, I didn't even feel high anymore.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: TrippieHunter]
#21798448 - 06/12/15 04:44 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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TrippieHunter said: I've been feeling just like you bro! What I have found in the past week though is smoke less. I can manage being sober for most of the day if I smoke a bowl
in the morning when I get up and then not again till evening time. I've been feeling a lot better since trying this. Before I would sit here and smoke
bowl after bowl, I didn't even feel high anymore.
I'm the same way now but if I'm gonna smoke it's gotta be at night or I'll just turn into a slug and want to smoke again all day long.
I have recently cut back from dabs all day every day, like three dabs before I even hop I the shower in the morning. Dabbing on the toilet while I'm shitting. Just dabbed out in general.
I took a t-break of 3 weeks, almost a month but Sunday was sooooo beautiful and this really good DEAD song came on and I just had to take a bong rip. Now I'm treating weed like a psychedelic. Where I'm taking at least a weeks break in between sessions and only smoking for special occasions like birthdays or holidays or shows. Or just a planned off day where I wanna sit and think.
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It's not socially acceptable to admit that you never have fun. So people fake it. Having fun while being sober is the biggest scam. It never actually happens.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: GoldenEye]
#21798528 - 06/12/15 04:58 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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GoldenEye said: It's not socially acceptable to admit that you never have fun. So people fake it. Having fun while being sober is the biggest scam. It never actually happens.
I beg to differ. Have you ever bowled? Fun as shit.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: KingKnowledge]
#21798800 - 06/12/15 05:55 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not as fun as moonlight bowling on acid.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: GoldenEye]
#21798881 - 06/12/15 06:10 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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GoldenEye said: Not as fun as moonlight bowling on acid.
Around here they call it cosmic bowling, assuming we are talking about the same thing.
And I have always wanted to go on a tab or two. It would be perfect.
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UncleFester
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voodoochild1000 said: Hike
Hiking in Miami , the only thing that comes close to hiking is walking to the mall and hoping you don't get your face mauled by a guy on bathsalts which in this case would be a substitute for a bear XD
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: UncleFester]
#21799270 - 06/12/15 07:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Im in the same position.
I quit weed about 4 weeks ago, and its hard not to blaze up. Im trying to get a job too.
Ive been taaking on new hobbies and posting a ton on shroomery.
Also, theres this stuff ive been trying to buy in my town. Its legal herbal blend. NOT spice/synthetic THC. Nope. Just a blend of herbs. They sell by the ounce. Its no weed high, but u can feel a high. Better than nothing 
So far, my town doesnt carry it. So off to eBay! they got everything
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#21800624 - 06/13/15 03:18 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Disclaimer: I've only read the OP.
So, what you're describing is referred to in the medical literature as "anhedonia", which means the absence of pleasure. If you use drugs heavily and regularly, changes happen in your brain, regardless of which specific drug you're using.
You see, beyond your typical 5 senses, you have quite a few more. One of these is your "pleasure sense". In simplified terms, in the dopamine reward system in your brain, there is a certain threshold of dopamine release that is necessary for something to register as pleasurable. For example, you eat some chocolate cake: your brain releases dopamine and, if it crosses the current threshold, you brain registers it and says "That was good. Do it again."
Where this comes into play with drug abuse is the fact that this pleasure threshold can be increased and decreased, based on a variety of factors. The key causes of addiction, according to current research, are: A genetic predisposition, and extraordinary stress. This stress component appears to be critical. You can have a person with a heavy genetic burden for addiction who drinks or smokes weed, or whatever, his whole life in purely recreational quantities. Or, you can have someone that has a very small genetic burden who ends up an alcoholic or a dope fiend. Why is this?
The answer lies in the stress response and the dopamine reward system. As I mentioned earlier, your brain's threshold for what counts as a reward can be altered based on external, and internal, conditions.
So, when a person experiences sustained and extraordinary stress (clinical depression, PTSD, anxiety/panic attacks, or simply extraordinary external stress), the brain will eventually attempt to rememdy this using its last, and most potent, tool: altering the pleasure thereshold.
So, this happens, and all of a sudden things for you simply are not how they used to be. You find no pleasure in things that used to make you happy. What this is, is your brain responding to extreme stress by pushing you to go and find something, anything, that will relieve your stress.
If that something happens to be a substance, some things can go wrong that cause substance dependence. Initially, you'll seek the substance because it makes you feel good. It gives you a big, fat dump of dopamine in your reward system. Recall that this is precisely what the brain was driving you to find: something to relieve the stress.
I've gone far deeper than maybe I should have for this question, so I'll try to wrap it up quickly. At this point in the process, if you continue using the substance to alleviate your stress, certain changes will occur in the brain. These changes occur in the mesolimbic dopamine system, and specifically in the midbrain.
The midbrain is the part of the brain that is responsible for survival. It's the most basic part of your brain that tells you "Eat, Sleep, Fuck". When somebody has developed full-blown substance dependence, the need for that substance gets written onto the midbrain. It becomes tagged at the survival level. This is why even the most well-intentioned addicts relapse. Their brain is feeding a compulsion as strong as if you had not eaten for days.
However, the good news is that you can overcome this. While this will never truly go away, it would be like forgetting you have to eat, it does diminish over time if you stay consistent. Every single time you get a craving and deny it, you are physically building new neural pathways in your brain that are contrary to your addict behavior.
Every time you want to get high, but don't, it becomes just a little bit easier next time.
So, the practical result of this is that when you first start taking drugs, you're going to feel like shit for awhile. You'll feel like nothing is fun or pleasurable or really worth doing. However, this is an effect of that altered perception of pleasure that your brain has. If you abstain for a few months, it will return to its normal state, and you'll be able to enjoy normal, every day things again.
Wow, I may not have needed to type all that for this post, but I got carried away.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: UncleFester]
#21800730 - 06/13/15 04:27 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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UncleFester said: Welp it's about to be first 24 hours into being sober for the first time in a year and a half or more. I used to smoke ganja everyday as a passtime and now my day feels incomplete. The main reason for going sober is to get myself a job or rather to pass that stinkin' drug test which I'm not even sure how fucked I am because I have no clean piss and they might even test me tomorrow. Which I'll surely come out positive.
Well, there's your problem right there. What idiot even APPLIES for a job they know involves a drug test that ALSO they know they will fail. REALLY??? You just set yourself up for failure, buddy. Clearly, your own efforts at obtaining a job don't even rise to the level of half-hearted.
Boredom is from having too much time on your hands, and is often secondarily complicated by not having any money or contrast in your life. People who WORK have something to look forward to. A paycheck and leisure time activities they can afford to spend money on like hobbies, just to give one example.
Grow the fuck up, get a REAL job, contribute something, and you won't find life quite so boring that you have to amuse yourself by going through it half-consciously and perpetually stoned for your own amusement.

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MagicalOrangutan said: Sit around and think about stupid shit and watch TV, that's what realistic people of all sorts do, sober or not lol
Bullshit. Sober people with jobs do all kinds of beautiful, amazing things with their time and money...like volunteering at a hospital, giving money to charity, feeding the homeless, caring for lost or abandoned animals at a shelter...the list of positive, life-affirming things you can do is fucking endless. Any human being of any merit is not sitting around idle "doing stupid things" as you suggest.
Drug use (ANY drug) should be the spice in your life, not the main course taken three times daily.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: Nature Boy] 1
#21800876 - 06/13/15 05:57 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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YOGA. READING. WRITING. DRAWING. PAINTING. MAGICK. GARDENING. TRAVEL. MUSIC. COOKING
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MagicalOrangutan
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: GelapMata]
#21802881 - 06/13/15 03:48 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah basically if I were to stop trying to pad the dudes feelings, grow up and work hard and find some hobbies.
One thing you've all been missing however, is that sex with beautiful women is the only true thing to make a man happy. Most people who post on this kinda forum are Aspergers losers who never step out of the house so I can't speak from experience, but still
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: Nature Boy] 1
#21805265 - 06/14/15 08:17 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nature Boy said:
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UncleFester said: Welp it's about to be first 24 hours into being sober for the first time in a year and a half or more. I used to smoke ganja everyday as a passtime and now my day feels incomplete. The main reason for going sober is to get myself a job or rather to pass that stinkin' drug test which I'm not even sure how fucked I am because I have no clean piss and they might even test me tomorrow. Which I'll surely come out positive.
Well, there's your problem right there. What idiot even APPLIES for a job they know involves a drug test that ALSO they know they will fail. REALLY??? You just set yourself up for failure, buddy. Clearly, your own efforts at obtaining a job don't even rise to the level of half-hearted.
Boredom is from having too much time on your hands, and is often secondarily complicated by not having any money or contrast in your life. People who WORK have something to look forward to. A paycheck and leisure time activities they can afford to spend money on like hobbies, just to give one example.
Grow the fuck up, get a REAL job, contribute something, and you won't find life quite so boring that you have to amuse yourself by going through it half-consciously and perpetually stoned for your own amusement.

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Which is why I passed with clean urine... Also start work on Monday at 7am.. 
I'm not even gonna come back at you with negative remarks.. I know your point is to just grow up and deal with it but damn you really have to out of your way and say things like "half-consciously and perpetually stoned for your own amusement."? The old me would've told you to go suck off your boss, but what would be the point of that? We still wouldn't even be having good vibes with each other. I know you're trying to be encouraging on some levels but at the same time it just feels like your venting on me. Just sounds like you're being kinda a dick dude. I'm working on my own things and I'm going sober now so I can progress a little more until I'm a little bit more capable of having some leisure in life but as for now I'm going to be helping out my family with the money I'm going to be earning because I know it would soften up the harshness of those bills
Well like that's just like your opinion man..

But anyways I hope everything is okay in your life. Don't forget to breathe in the air.
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Re: What do sober people do for fun? [Re: UncleFester]
#21805300 - 06/14/15 08:34 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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very mature of you 
I think you're ready
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