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Which drug makes one the most creative?

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Which drug do you think enhances creativity the most?

Weed and LSD particularly are known to enhance creativity but what about DMT? I've never heard of a creative/artistic person who uses a lot of DMT and I'm not sure exactly what links hallucinogens/drugs to creativity either, but does DMT enhance creativity as much/more than other drugs?

What do you know about this?
 
the drugs dont make you more creative, they just might give you some inspiration
 
BenzosBudOrBooty said:
Which drug do you think enhances creativity the most?

Weed and LSD particularly are known to enhance creativity but what about DMT? I've never heard of a creative/artistic person who uses a lot of DMT and I'm not sure exactly what links hallucinogens/drugs to creativity either, but does DMT enhance creativity as much/more than other drugs?

What do you know about this?
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Good old fashioned weed can help you write some interesting music.
 
i think certain drugs definitely enhance creativity or the desire to be creative at least. DMT when smoked is too short lasting to influence creativity directly but the experience is inspiring. It's not like playing an instrument while tripping where creativity seems to come out of nowhere.

I'd say LSD or phenethylamines (2c-e, nbome series) are the best drugs for this purpose. Mostly because of the mix of enhancement of senses and stimulation that allows you to get stuff done as well as think of new things. I think it will also depend on the person and the task they are doing though, many artists/writers were alcoholics and addicts of all kinds.
 
i think i read somewhere alex grey saying he was influenced by dmt.
any drug can influence a creative person, i think it was on this site that i found some time ago a series of self portraits of an artist on difrent kinds of meds so yeah
 
If one is creative, some drugs can help facilitate creativity and some can hinder it. I suspect which drugs do what will differ from person to person. Say you have two musicians, each on LSD. One might find it easier to grab different ideas and articulate them. The other might struggle to articulate anything because he's real confused and impaired.

And what other people have said is true. Drugs will never make a creative person out of someone who isn't in the first place.

I suppose though there is a definite link between psychedelic drugs and enhanced creativity because of their nature to lead the mind to unusual places. The creative types will capitalise on that effect.
 
For me the most creatively inspiring compounds have been LSD and 4-HO-MET. The most I can remember writing down later executed cartoon and drawing ideas that were those two. Also, those concepts seemed to have some unusual quality that gave me the feeling I would not get the idea sober very quickly. :)

Here is one such executed concept:

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John Lennon was asked this and he said "It's only another mirror. It didn't write the music. I write the music whether I'm on LSD or in the water".
 
ParappaTheRapper said:
If you take a talentless person and pump them full of drugs they aren't going to create anything.
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No doubt this is true. I've always been a good writer whether it be stories, poetry or just analytical thought but I definitely noticed a large jump in creativity when I started smoking weed and when I did acid more specifically. Alcohol I know boosts creativity as well. I'd venture to believe that most drugs can boost creativity in some way but I'm thinking LSD may be the pinnacle from what I gather in this thread and my own experiences as well. Thanks.
 
I also believe that the creativity doesn't necessarily come from tripping itself...like while you're on the drug. But after an LSD trip you have increased your creativity...possibly. Maybe I'm wrong but usually while I'm tripping I just wanna zone out and ponder life. I never really thought to be creative while I was on the drug.
 
if it's music then psychedelics greatly increase my creativity and i come up with things i would have never thought of. If it's writing then i imagine amphetamines would help greatly. If it's art then some sort of visual drug would probably be inspiring. If it's math/science then stimulants/psychs seem to be helpful. Once the trip is gone so is my enhanced creativity for music, though it can help remind me or inspire me of certain ideas. This is why i consider DMT to not be of a whole lot of use directly, as you can't do anything when you're in hyper space.
 
RobotRipping said:
if it's music then psychedelics greatly increase my creativity and i come up with things i would have never thought of. If it's writing then i imagine amphetamines would help greatly. If it's art then some sort of visual drug would probably be inspiring. If it's math/science then stimulants/psychs seem to be helpful. Once the trip is gone so is my enhanced creativity for music, though it can help remind me or inspire me of certain ideas. This is why i consider DMT to not be of a whole lot of use directly, as you can't do anything when you're in hyper space.
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When I was studying music/spending the most of my day listening to music, often I would reharse/mix/create new music in my head whenever I was in dreamlike states, which at the time meant just before sleeping or after having smoked a nice amount of weed. It's a pity that now I feel asleep as soon as I lay down on the mattress :(. Probably i could have taken this material and made something out of it. So I'd say that some drugs can make you more creative just by lowering inhibitions (as NKB said) or putting you in the right mood.

Reading what RR wrote it came to my mind that Erdos (the matematician) was addicted to amphetamines - as Wikipedia reports:
Erdős won the bet [of not taking amphetamines for a month], but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use.
 
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