Thats a pretty good way to look at all mind altering substances tbh.. even stuff like chocolate. Anything that has that "feel good" factor. I guess healthy things would fit the example as well, if it makes you feel good its just a different perception of reality.. or not a different perception but you experience it different because of different chemical reactions in the brain. I think if its a small change and you acknowledge its a temporary small change I guess you can control it.. its why most people work 9/5 and "live for the weekend" where they can change their reality. The danger is when that reality is too good and its all you want all the time... thats when addiction kicks in and you don't give a fuck about anything else.butter_man wrote:Imagine if it wasn't the perception of reality changing by the ingestion of the drug, but the changing to a whole other reality. like, different potentials, other parralell universes, but with different rules, and outcomes, and ....everything.
well, heroin holds the key to the changing to a very particularly beautifull reality. one where events happen at a different speed. observation here is made on levels that no other reality can, things have there own poetry, every moment tied to the next delicately. like a ballet through existence.
now Imagine everyday life the hussle for the bus the tinny noise of a builders radio grimey walls from the car fumes noxious at the back of your throat. the grimaces as those you walk past, rats in the own tunnel of self-dissatisfaction barge and bussle as you nurse a headache of woe and anxiety as everything you have to worry about jossles in your head.
once youve tasted the poetry its gonna be very hard for you to want to return to the ugly. especially as a recent submergence will show it more severe by comparison alone.
You might want to stay in there, but you'll be alone. Friends will leave, family will too. and this lonelinessx may force you to escape that reality for a normal constructivism.
be warned though, it'll never be the same. the mere experience alone is enough to let you know the grass can be greener. And once youve seen it once you'll always have the comparison to compare the shiteness of your own reality to.
beauty can be seen in a sober reality though. you just need to train yourself to experience.
once you do that you don't need heoin. you are.
Doug Stanhope made a joke about people saying his drinking is a problem and he said that he takes all the mundane shit that normal people do sober, throw some drink on it, and its infinitely better. "I don't have a problem, I have a solution".
It's sorta true, if you're not entirely happy with your mundane sober life and you alter it with whatever chemicals and have that 'hit' of a different perception of reality.. it'd be rather attractive to carry on.
