This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "The Effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) on the Brain & Body." The full episode can be found on RUclips here: ruclips.net/video/gXvuJu1kt48/видео.html
Weed is a "godsend" for me. Tried learning to play piano during the pandemic. Made some progress but was getting alot of tensions and pain (back, wrist) and got stuck. Tried smoking a little before practising just to see and sure enough tension melted away, I cold focus way more, movements more fluid, sounds became more alive and starting playing just a bunch of different patterns that I never played with before. Was able to PLAY more as opposed to more rigid practising and such. Since I starting smoking a little before playing my progress has gone through the roof. No more pain, Im starting to write songs and improvise and just enjoy it more. Can focus for over an hour easy each time as opposed to before where my mind would wonder a lot more. Anyways, to each their own. For me, a little sativa (don't want to be lazy or tired so no Indica) before playing and I'm in the zone. Plus, its legal here in Canada :)
It’s so weird you say that, I make music as a hobby and the first time I smoked in ages was last night while producing and I listened to this Griz track and felt like I suddenly “understood” the sound staging and I swear sounds became so animated and a whole music video was playing in my head. I kept going back and forth between that track and mine and soon I had this whole song I was super proud of. I used to have trouble even starting a song because I couldn’t get myself in a creative state for so long but it was so cool how rhythm and sound became so easy to see.
@@Submersed24 I hear you! In moderation and as long as i do something productive with it like play music, it's great. No wonder so many artists have used hahaha ;)
I am very creative anyway, but it definitely opens my mind and makes me more creative. Maybe it doesn't work for people that aren't very creative anyway. They lying 😂
Personally, I don't think it makes me more creative, rather less critical of my creative ideas, which is actually a more free-flowing way of letting the concepts formalise themselves. Though I do believe with enough practice that I'll be able to tap into my more "creatively forgiving" self in the future.
I had to stop! I’m too creative and get lost in the sauce so I learned why I get more creative when I’m high and learned how to channel that when sober now I’m creative af without weed and I can function way better without it then with it
@@guillermo5095Bro I had a eureka moment while tripping. I got so anxious and decided to put down my visuals into paper. I was able to instantly correct all my mistakes and become more in tune with my mind. It gave me the answer I needed for my comics. That shit is a blessing.
I am an artist and I think that “openness “is right regarding cannabis. What I have observed is my execution has gotten better but my creativeness is the same. It seems to have knocked out repeating common mistakes by allowing self correction . It allows me to drop self imposed restrictions like “no I won’t do this because I will do it poorly “. Now I am able to just go ahead and draw and fix it in one continuous flow. I can also make better observations in colour and composition. I feel I know what the painting needs to make it better. I seem to be able to visualize so well With cannabis I can nearly copy onto paper what I imagine because the mental image doesn’t fade out. I am a regular user but I think the improvement is permanent even if I never had cannabis ever again.
I'd love to see a neurologist who specializes in studying things specifically like this chime in. In many people's experience, Cannabis provides access to creative connections we just don't make sober. I'm a writer and have experienced this first-hand many times. The ideas I come up with for my stories while I'm high are far better than the more limited ones I come up with while sober. There's something Cannabis does (while high) that just removes barriers. So it basically just allows us to travel our own minds deeper and probe to find connections we wouldn't have consciously made before. But if it's not already in our brains, it isn't going to be accessible. That said, we can watch and read things and "input" material into our brains while high or not to help bolster our own database to further our creativity. It also likely depends person to person. Not everyone who gets high is "open" to new experiences or perspectives. I know a lot of people who get high who are not open at all and are rigid thinkers even while high.
There’s 100% got to be some truth behind that. If anything, it could slow down parts of the brain to allow others to run a bit smoother. I make music as a hobby and I literally felt like I was in a movie when listening to this song and felt like I “understood” how the song worked finally. I took what I learned and make a song myself and I was blown away how I had made something I haven’t been able to make in years. It seems to allow me to think a bit deeper on stuff and makes imagination super vivid
@@Submersed24 That is amazing. So cool! I do think it has downsides so I don't use it often anymore. Too much anxiety and paranoia from extensive traumas I've had. I wish I could "solve" that side effect but it's just how my brain is wired. So glad it worked for you to do that!
@@Submersed24 Oh, I also think it significantly reduces or eliminates self-consciousness. Have you noticed that too? Getting rid of that fear-based feeling of self-consciousness and self-criticism has a profound effect too IME. Curious if you relate to that.
@@opheliawild 100% there are downsides- the key I think is to only use it occasionally because everyone I see using it becomes super reliant on it for basically everything and has noticeable memory problems. However I think cannabis disables some parts of the brain and enhances others. Reading seems to counter the negative memory parts of it so Im suspicious that the memory loss is due to simply not using that part of the brain as much (QEEGs can pick up that your brain has less amplitude in some parts on weed, and it quite literally slows it down) the slower brain waves allow more creativity HOWEVER, I think since the brain has a “use it or lose it” type of mechanism, prolonged usage leads to permanently slower amplitudes. I personally had neurofeedback done on myself and it uses the same kind of repeat stimulus or "training" to push brainwaves to go faster/slower. PTSD is also a result of having altered brainwave "amplitudes". so, yeah its interesting how that works
@@opheliawild so i think the reduced self consciousness actually comes from parts of the brain being lowered in amplitude. For example, the parietal cortex part of your brain is associated with self awareness and weed lowers that a bit. It’s also ironically associated with long term memory and sleep. So it might be fine to do once in a while, but repeat usage I believe will literally train your brain to tune down that area permanently
I make music and I have to say cannabis does increase my creativity by a lot…. Even though I’m the type of person that does get anxiety from smoking it if it’s too much but even in that anxious state it enhances my creativity by a lot like if I’m making music it would transform that anxiety into pure creativity if that makes any sense …. I guess it’s just a very subjective thing and everybody reacts very differently…
This is so true. I’ve been trying to be more creative in terms of having a musical outlet and the times I have smoked I’ve noticed it feels like I’ve got a blossoming effect in my brain. And that just enhances my creative side. I’ve noticed when I’ve freestyles high vs sober. High freestyles are always way more punchier smoother and flow better compared to when I’m sober and I’m trying to think of what to say next. Whilst when I’m high it feels like I just gotta keep speaking and it flows naturally. Allowing me to think of what to say ahead whilst I’m already saying what I’ve got locked in
I was always an average student but when I started weed I became honor roll student ! It does increase my creativity and it makes me do things ! It also can make me lazy
I've played guitar around 47 years and can guarantee it increased my creativity, same with art and invention. With all these, I could be stuck, take a toke and get all kinds of insight/innovation that was otherwise unavailable. The amount you use is critical! Just enough to open your mind is good. Get stoned and you're fucked, more is not better!!
One thing I felt like wasn't taken into consideration enough was the amount of cannabis the user is consuming on a regular basis. 🙃 He, rightly so, spoke often comparing individuals who experience fear and anxiety from using cannabis and those who experience relaxation and anxiety relief from using it. My caviot is that the mode of use and how often it is used makes a big difference in my experience. Narrowly speaking, there are two kinds of cannabis users, the "wake and bakers" and the "weekend tokers." I've personally been on both ends of this spectrum, and my anecdote is that too much cannabis turns cannabis into something you are simultaneously afraid of being without, and eventually afraid of using, while on the other end of this, using it in "sparing moderation" does in my experience increase my creative ability. Again, the whole chicken-egg argument is something up to debate, but my point I wanted to get across was that responsible habits make a big difference in experience. 👍
my name also is Zach, i agree with you the mode of use and the dosage and also the intentions of use can make. a big difference. i think it's very important to use it with moderation and with long pauses from 2 months to one year.
see my anxiety skyrockets on it, as i get reeeeally existential anxiety (heightens my sensitivity to the absurdity of existence and the unknown), but i do get pretty creative on it. so i usually drink a little with it which quells the anxiety and then i really enjoy the way my mind works.
In my experience of having consumed cannabis in varied forms and strengths over the last 26 years is that I'm always more creative in the days after I quit. I've smoked daily for long periods of time, sometimes years but as I've got older I have consumed it less because after a while I find it boring and I am less creative and energetic. I gave up about 8 months ago and the last 8 months have been the most creative of my life. I can get so much more done when I'm not under the influence.
@@oona9039 yes......life becomes a mess again about a month after. I have Lyme disease so it also helps keep inflammation at bay for pain management. I have given up many times over the 5 years of use. Same thing after a month or so every time.
@@ParanormalPulse411 sounds more like you have depression and addiction. CBD does help with pain but the way a marijuana user describes it, they sound about at hooked as an alcoholic. There’s not really much evidence it to claim it makes you more creative, though big pharma is pushing it like crazy since it’s become legal in many states. And now they’re finding it’s sorta horrible for your heart. Not worth your time to defend. Just keep an eye on your habit
There are crucial points left out of these conflicts: 1. What were the sample size for these studies for/against? 2. What tests were used? 3 (MOST IMPORTANT). How freely available was the data used for these studies, as well as the scripts/analysis plans used to determine results?
I am not a regular cannabis smoker and when I did for like 10 times in 2 months or something like that I noticed that u take more time to process things under its influence.When I am sober I can think much faster many things and probably that's why I don't have the whole picture of them(so less creative) but when I did smoke it made my brain slower on processing maybe that's why I had to imagine more and be more creative. Hope this helps the study area or anything
Yes, is common and that when you will need to know your dose, and also note, weed will always improvise who you really are. example, if you are creative and you smoke, you will be more and more creative, if you are a gambler by nature it will make you more and more gambler till you get fucked. So now your questions why I feel slow when i smoke, most probably when we smoke we tend to take every single decision into consideration, and that what makes us slower but indeed it helps because it will let you see the problem form all different angles, and booomb realized that you did well. Unlike a normal person who do things faster but he end up by missing a lot of points or luck of competency. At the end of the day, if you are creative and and you smoke you will be more and more creative remember the dose we talked about! And if you are naturally sucks and you take weed some more, then you gonna be fucked and more sucks
I remember talking to a very successful musician (really successful, getting awards, being on MTV, etc.) He told me that he wrote the best song texts when he was smoking weed. Being in the business for decades and still being successful it worked for him.....
trauma creates a want to fix it. so you go on a journey to new lands to fix it. but its hard to fix trauma, the body often times keeps the score. its hard for me, as im a software engineer, who isn't able to perform efficiently.
I can say from my own experience as someone who is writing a novel, that cannabis absolutely does enhance my creativity and not only opens my mind to new ideas, but those ideas also come to me as well; often seemingly out of nowhere. It doesn’t make me more relaxed and often it can make me far more of an anxious and cynical person and despite Huberman’s conclusion, this can enhance my creativity by making my writing take on a sharper and more scathing edge - which definitely tints the style, but I can’t deny that it makes my writing take on a fervour and sense of life to it, that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
yes, it increases creativity, but as you need more and more, that positive aspect goes away and it becomes harder and harder to become creative, and eventually you become far less creative than you would be had you not smoked to begin with
THANK YOU. A puff, puff here and there is relaxing. The ‘advocates’ however act like life is completely worthless without it. They sound about as lost as alcoholics to be frank
I'd like to inquire about something important. As someone involved in game development, my passion lies in crafting imaginative worlds filled with non-existent creatures. I'm intrigued by the concept of providing players with immersive journeys that allow them to truly engage with these fictional realms. My approach is akin to an author meticulously penning a novel. Now, onto my query: During the moments just before I fall asleep, I experience something remarkably peculiar. A multitude of vivid images flash before my eyes, corresponding to whatever concept I'm focusing on. For instance, if I'm contemplating a city among the clouds, the intricate details of the buildings, the texture of the walls, and even the vibrant hues all become remarkably clear. These dynamic images move, and there's a sense of substantiality to everything. My question is, what underlies this experience? What processes occur within my brain? It doesn't appear to be a mere transfer of memories from short-term to long-term storage. Could you shed light on what's happening? What am I unlocking in this state? Just to clarify, I'm not alluding to substance use, as I don't engage in such activities.
I definitely feel more creative when I'm high. So if I get high at 4pm, I'm all creative and happy and energetic. Between 8am and 4pm though, I feel like shit. Lethargic, tired, low-energy etc. and certainly not creative. If I'm not in the habit of smoking, I'm more energetic, more happy and creative enough. If I then get high, I'm super creative. Then I come up against the law of diminishing returns and when I'm high I'm probably a little more creative but also more inert.
It may not increase creativity in everyone but it ABSOLUTELY without a doubt increases mine. It's really is incredible. Not all weed increases my creativity, but certain strains have a marked effect. (I'm still working out which ones work best). My biggest problem though is how fast I forget. I need to carry a little notebook around with me or something. I know that not every "great idea" I have when I'm high is an actual great idea but if it's 1 out of 10 then I could have, on average, 5 genuinely great ideas every time I smoke pot! The stuff I'm working with now that seems to be really effective is called "Apples and Bananas" in case anyone was wondering.
I’m an entrepreneur and I write down in detail every idea I have , some are useless and just felt good at the time but some gain traction and make money! I have the same issue, I come up with a seemingly genius idea & then poof, it’s gone if I don’t make note of it fast!
Yeah, I definitely need to start writing these ideas down. I also use it to perform tasks around the house that are typically monotonous. Like washing the dishes or folding clothes. All that kinda stuff becomes sooOOOooo much more interesting! I'm sure that it's a "your mileage may very" kinda thing but for me at least, it works a treat!
When I am painting or doing art, if I smoke weed, I can do it for longer, without tapping into my left, logic side, of my brain....which says things like, you shouldn't paint this long, you might get a cramp, you need to eat, you need to check your email, etc. Weed allows me to focus on something for longer, how is that?
Probably cause you have a depression issue. You’re speaking about it like it’s not just a “time to time” thing. A healthy brain generally won’t turn to weed for creativity. I speak from experience. Marijuana addiction is quite real. And yes, sadly, it’s just as addictive as the rest of the “Insta-cures for sadness and creativity”
It shuts off the RAS, reticular activating system, which normally screens out unnecessary, non-life threatening data from our environment. So the feeling of being aware of more stuff might give you the impression that you are feeling more creative. What are the three functions of the reticular activating system? The Reticular Activating System is responsible for our wakefulness, our ability to focus, our fight-flight response, and how we ultimately perceive the world.
LOL. I have complex PTSD. It does not turn off the RAS or the amygdala or any fear response at all in me. In fact, if I get too big a hit, it heightens my PTSD fight/flight response (turns into just flight really but amps up the paranoia and unjustified fear). Usually, it doesn't lower my high-strung adrenaline reactions much, but it does provide access to more information in my own mind, allowing me to make connections I never do sober, time and time again. I'm a writer, so this comes in quite handy for writing fiction.
Its funny that you mention creativity after use, before my very 1st smoke, my level of creativity is set. Whatever level you are thats you. I was a 7/10 i guess. I smoked hard my 1st time. At 19. Laughing smiling have the best time. Then i noticed while being sober afterwards, my creativity shot up! Just the options I created for myself no matter the topic just appear. I grade mine now at 8/10 9/10 whatever, something changed and im 30 years old and its still there. I do not smoke anymore. I have a daughter she needs 100 focus Hope this helps someone
true. i know this from my own experience i always said that weed does not make you more creative. its gets u easier in a creative state. it does decrease anxiety short term. i believe long term, for everybody, it will increase anxiety by "10 fold"
In summary, weed smokers are just more happier and open minded. We are less stress and don’t get burn outs. Just chilling and being productive while flying on the cloud 9 ~ doubleog
@@benfrese3573It probably depends. Like your comment, is it your ignorance speaking or just a general closed mindedness? In your case, it sounds like a little bit of both. Be better than that my guy. You'll be happier in the long run.
@benfrese3573 Thanks dude. I appreciate that. And while I personally haven't seen "it all" I've seen quite a bit. And if I had any life advice to give I suppose it'd be to try your best to do what makes you happy as often as you can (so long as you're not hurting anyone else in the process). To let your loved ones know how much you care every chance you get and to leave the world a better place than you found it.
Thank You Dr. Huberman. I am wondering if i can share with you my experience with canabis ( How i can communicate with you, i have interest in the subject matter), i think there is more than creativity only, there is a higher state of clarity in the thinking process.Thanks.
Cannabis starts off like that, but once you do it all the time, for many years without a break, then probably not as much. I can't imagine these studies can really say from just what we see in people who have used weed such a long time. The basic problem some run into, is they rely on it basically all the time, until it becomes symptomatically almost like any other addiction. However its NOT on the same level as addicts to heroin, methamphetamine, crack etc, in which debilitating symptoms of illness get further complicated by a deadly physical dependency. Weed doesn't destroy so many that way. Weed isn't a gateway, to those addictions either on its own. Weed does complete links in the brain important for the creating process, of music especially, but also art or dance. Ive known of many writers who claim they find their work to be on a higher level if they used weed. My first time back on it since using only a few times was tough, in my later 40s. So i went slow, and as I predicted, had one anxiety fit that caused vomiting. Oh well its the cherry, so i wanted that to go ok, and it got easier. Right away I picked up a guitar and started feeling around the frets, while watching my fingers in a mirror. It was really sth else, all this connection of music just making up song after song, I was like wtf am I doing, this is great. Trying to leave weed for the first time, when you started the first time, earlier in life, it can be very hard to shake, but as you come back to it with newer eyes, better stuff, and a safer more mature approach, its been workable. I didn't smoke much after I did the first "big quit". Theres a type of excitement that goes with it in younger years, I mistook at times the experience surrounded by such youthful optimism as being the work of the drug, when it was really only partly. for instance I experimented at 16, became a full time user by 19, and continued with very few breaks till I was 30. I still smoked it once in awhile, but I had my first few real panic and anxiety trips, and one serious blackout. I was in patient in a lunatic farm for about a year at the beginning, was coping with heavy weight of anxiety from my life, and became wary of what I was doing. I was going into a stronger dependence on opiates as it had clearly gotten too heady for me to do much else. Im now in a midground, using it very sparingly to buy my soul back from methadone, and it isn't easy.
It's not that complicated, marijuana can make people more creative, point plank period. I don't give a crap about biased experiments. I've seen it over and over and over again with people who were friends etc, it can make you more creative no doubt. Enough of the BS. I've composed many creative vocal melodies on pot while not being able to compose to save my life while off cannabis.
Same . Played piano on few year without it and now been smoking before practicing and am making WAY more progress, improvising like never before, discovering new sounds, etc all the time now. Type of weed helps. I'm just disccovering strains and all ;)
Yes, is common and that when you will need to know your dose, and also note, weed will always improvise who you really are. example, if you are creative and you smoke, you will be more and more creative, if you are a gambler by nature it will make you more and more gambler till you get fucked. So now your questions why I feel slow when i smoke, most probably when we smoke we tend to take every single decision into consideration, and that what makes us slower but indeed it helps because it will let you see the problem form all different angles, and booomb realized that you did well. Unlike a normal person who do things faster but he end up by missing a lot of points or luck of competency. At the end of the day, if you are creative and and you smoke you will be more and more creative remember the dose we talked about! And if you are naturally sucks and you take weed some more, then you gonna be fucked and more sucks
Did you know? Raphael Mechoulam "the godfather of cannabis research 1962" isolation of THC, the main active principle of cannabis. In 1963 the USA federal government studied funding his research.
*_Nothing, NOTHING increases creativity more than the following:_* *_Have a pint of beer. Have max 1 more. When/if the creativity starts, you stop drinking beer and start drinking coffee and continue drinking coffee as long as it flows and you are writing/planning it all._* . (I wrote this comment before watching this clip. I will now watch the clip and see if it's mentioned(it's not since alcohol is a no-no.) )
I was working on Receurdos de la Alhambra on guitar and progress was slow. I took 20mg of THC and an hour layer I was playing better than ever. I could play the notes to their value at a tempo I was having trouble with when I had no THC in my system. THC seems to have helped me get over the hump with that piece of music.
@@kartoshka253 He hawks his very low-regulated dietary supplements and believes sunscreen is just as dangerous as melanoma. He speaks far outside of his specialty and expertise. He doesn't summarize or cite papers correctly, adding his own spin/interpretation that wasn't in the paper (including this video). He's not a critical thinker. He's someone who makes a supposition by his own feelings then goes and tries to find research to support his supposition. That isn't how science works. If I were a betting person, I'd wager he'll say something crazy that goes viral and get himself canceled eventually. He's all about money, hubris, and ego. No surprise, he is one of many Lex Fridman creations where "anything goes" so long as you dress it up in credentials, slap a hefty price tag on it, and produce, produce, produce.
Love rhe topicl Can someone point to a reference or study mentioning "the criteria of creative brainstorming", as mentioned? What are the "criteria of a thought being truly novel"? Very curious to read/know more about this. Thanks!
I agree, but he's talking about using it as a tool, not abuse. Using anything in excess is very damaging. I think if you're using anything as an "escape" means you're going down the wrong path.
@@dogma7911 most of the people who fiercely defend it though really do have a problem. Taking a puff a few times a month can be beneficial. It’s the people who scream “it’s my antidepressant!!!” As someone whose significant other is a neurologist, you just can’t turn on neurons that fast and claim it’s harmless. Ultimately though, it’s about to dopamine receptors. About every substance fires them off like crazy. Screw with those, and your playing with fire
No it doesn't n I see it every day . Liar. Top stars say it screwed music up n took longer. Im creative without it. I use hemp like the ancients . No THC high . Demovangelis - cosmic garden renewal. Demovangelis - the duty of 3 in 1 on Google. No Audo tune or computers. Old school. I do all instruments n write songs with no outside help. No plagiarism like pot heads
@@bishopp14 actually sounds like you have no idea of the precision n finger stretches n complexity of many songs in comparison to yo rip off artists with just 2 chords like whole lotta love which they stole from small faces. It's called you need loving. Etc lol. Today's dopers sick n use audi tune n can't even play . They're a full band with tuns of outside help n I operate alone as a full band lol
@@bishopp14 Angus young don't even drink. Ian Anderson Jethro Tull ? No pot. No drugs. Stevie nicks bashed all the crap after clean. Ringo Starr said it slowed things down . So? Etc
@@bishopp14 so slow the first song down if can on the Google site n see it's a very busy fluttering mix of chords n sharps n flats in comparison to simple shit by Ozzy black sabbath lol. You play ? If so you'll see
@@Charles-tv6oi I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about but I stand by my previous comment. That being said, I do not play. One of my big regrets is never learning to play an instrument. Maybe that's the disconnect here?
@zach7074 yea same before I stopped smoking I was going hard until fear and discomfort started to overwhelm me and I couldn’t make music as good as when I didn’t smoke as much. I’ve observed the more you smoke the more suppressed creativity becomes because your mind was tricked to only associate whatever task your doing with weed because you were under the influence while doing whatever
I had a folder in wich I was saving HL extended episodes, I deleted that folder :) because I will watch them all, being of much importance, crystal clear expressed, I guess this is the result of involvement, conviction and passion about the subject, from the bottom of my heart thank you professore for sharing science, happy new episodes, happy new year ! 🎉🎉🎉🤍🌎🕊️
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This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "The Effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) on the Brain & Body." The full episode can be found on RUclips here: ruclips.net/video/gXvuJu1kt48/видео.html
Weed is a "godsend" for me. Tried learning to play piano during the pandemic. Made some progress but was getting alot of tensions and pain (back, wrist) and got stuck. Tried smoking a little before practising just to see and sure enough tension melted away, I cold focus way more, movements more fluid, sounds became more alive and starting playing just a bunch of different patterns that I never played with before. Was able to PLAY more as opposed to more rigid practising and such. Since I starting smoking a little before playing my progress has gone through the roof. No more pain, Im starting to write songs and improvise and just enjoy it more. Can focus for over an hour easy each time as opposed to before where my mind would wonder a lot more. Anyways, to each their own. For me, a little sativa (don't want to be lazy or tired so no Indica) before playing and I'm in the zone. Plus, its legal here in Canada :)
It’s so weird you say that, I make music as a hobby and the first time I smoked in ages was last night while producing and I listened to this Griz track and felt like I suddenly “understood” the sound staging and I swear sounds became so animated and a whole music video was playing in my head. I kept going back and forth between that track and mine and soon I had this whole song I was super proud of. I used to have trouble even starting a song because I couldn’t get myself in a creative state for so long but it was so cool how rhythm and sound became so easy to see.
@@Submersed24 I hear you! In moderation and as long as i do something productive with it like play music, it's great. No wonder so many artists have used hahaha ;)
My favorite thing about quitting weed is how vivid the dreams are
It's bonkers isn't it...? The 3 weeks after quitting are insane
Same!
Hahah…. I love it when i have good dreams, but i have ptsd so sometimes the dreams are very scary.
Very interesting.
Fax and also how strange dreams become like it’s like Alice and the wonderland
Marijuana made me more creative hands down. I've never been very creative without it. Marijuana is indeed very useful for creativity.
I am very creative anyway, but it definitely opens my mind and makes me more creative. Maybe it doesn't work for people that aren't very creative anyway. They lying 😂
Personally, I don't think it makes me more creative, rather less critical of my creative ideas, which is actually a more free-flowing way of letting the concepts formalise themselves. Though I do believe with enough practice that I'll be able to tap into my more "creatively forgiving" self in the future.
@@synonym1exactly. It allows a smoother transition of thoughts that don’t contradict; as if your next move was prepared for you.
I had to stop! I’m too creative and get lost in the sauce so I learned why I get more creative when I’m high and learned how to channel that when sober now I’m creative af without weed and I can function way better without it then with it
@@guillermo5095Bro I had a eureka moment while tripping. I got so anxious and decided to put down my visuals into paper. I was able to instantly correct all my mistakes and become more in tune with my mind. It gave me the answer I needed for my comics. That shit is a blessing.
I am an artist and I think that “openness “is right regarding cannabis. What I have observed is my execution has gotten better but my creativeness is the same. It seems to have knocked out repeating common mistakes by allowing self correction .
It allows me to drop self imposed restrictions like “no I won’t do this because I will do it poorly “. Now I am able to just go ahead and draw and fix it in one continuous flow. I can also make better observations in colour and composition. I feel I know what the painting needs to make it better.
I seem to be able to visualize so well With cannabis I can nearly copy onto paper what I imagine because the mental image doesn’t fade out.
I am a regular user but I think the improvement is permanent even if I never had cannabis ever again.
This mirrors my experience precisely. It is truly a plant teacher.
I'd love to see a neurologist who specializes in studying things specifically like this chime in. In many people's experience, Cannabis provides access to creative connections we just don't make sober. I'm a writer and have experienced this first-hand many times. The ideas I come up with for my stories while I'm high are far better than the more limited ones I come up with while sober. There's something Cannabis does (while high) that just removes barriers. So it basically just allows us to travel our own minds deeper and probe to find connections we wouldn't have consciously made before. But if it's not already in our brains, it isn't going to be accessible. That said, we can watch and read things and "input" material into our brains while high or not to help bolster our own database to further our creativity. It also likely depends person to person. Not everyone who gets high is "open" to new experiences or perspectives. I know a lot of people who get high who are not open at all and are rigid thinkers even while high.
There’s 100% got to be some truth behind that. If anything, it could slow down parts of the brain to allow others to run a bit smoother. I make music as a hobby and I literally felt like I was in a movie when listening to this song and felt like I “understood” how the song worked finally. I took what I learned and make a song myself and I was blown away how I had made something I haven’t been able to make in years. It seems to allow me to think a bit deeper on stuff and makes imagination super vivid
@@Submersed24 That is amazing. So cool! I do think it has downsides so I don't use it often anymore. Too much anxiety and paranoia from extensive traumas I've had. I wish I could "solve" that side effect but it's just how my brain is wired. So glad it worked for you to do that!
@@Submersed24 Oh, I also think it significantly reduces or eliminates self-consciousness. Have you noticed that too? Getting rid of that fear-based feeling of self-consciousness and self-criticism has a profound effect too IME. Curious if you relate to that.
@@opheliawild 100% there are downsides- the key I think is to only use it occasionally because everyone I see using it becomes super reliant on it for basically everything and has noticeable memory problems. However I think cannabis disables some parts of the brain and enhances others. Reading seems to counter the negative memory parts of it so Im suspicious that the memory loss is due to simply not using that part of the brain as much (QEEGs can pick up that your brain has less amplitude in some parts on weed, and it quite literally slows it down) the slower brain waves allow more creativity HOWEVER, I think since the brain has a “use it or lose it” type of mechanism, prolonged usage leads to permanently slower amplitudes. I personally had neurofeedback done on myself and it uses the same kind of repeat stimulus or "training" to push brainwaves to go faster/slower. PTSD is also a result of having altered brainwave "amplitudes". so, yeah its interesting how that works
@@opheliawild so i think the reduced self consciousness actually comes from parts of the brain being lowered in amplitude. For example, the parietal cortex part of your brain is associated with self awareness and weed lowers that a bit. It’s also ironically associated with long term memory and sleep. So it might be fine to do once in a while, but repeat usage I believe will literally train your brain to tune down that area permanently
I make music and I have to say cannabis does increase my creativity by a lot…. Even though I’m the type of person that does get anxiety from smoking it if it’s too much but even in that anxious state it enhances my creativity by a lot like if I’m making music it would transform that anxiety into pure creativity if that makes any sense …. I guess it’s just a very subjective thing and everybody reacts very differently…
This is my experience completely with it 🩵
This is so true. I’ve been trying to be more creative in terms of having a musical outlet and the times I have smoked I’ve noticed it feels like I’ve got a blossoming effect in my brain. And that just enhances my creative side. I’ve noticed when I’ve freestyles high vs sober. High freestyles are always way more punchier smoother and flow better compared to when I’m sober and I’m trying to think of what to say next. Whilst when I’m high it feels like I just gotta keep speaking and it flows naturally. Allowing me to think of what to say ahead whilst I’m already saying what I’ve got locked in
I was always an average student but when I started weed I became honor roll student ! It does increase my creativity and it makes me do things ! It also can make me lazy
I've played guitar around 47 years and can guarantee it increased my creativity, same with art and invention. With all these, I could be stuck, take a toke and get all kinds of insight/innovation that was otherwise unavailable. The amount you use is critical! Just enough to open your mind is good. Get stoned and you're fucked, more is not better!!
One thing I felt like wasn't taken into consideration enough was the amount of cannabis the user is consuming on a regular basis. 🙃 He, rightly so, spoke often comparing individuals who experience fear and anxiety from using cannabis and those who experience relaxation and anxiety relief from using it. My caviot is that the mode of use and how often it is used makes a big difference in my experience. Narrowly speaking, there are two kinds of cannabis users, the "wake and bakers" and the "weekend tokers." I've personally been on both ends of this spectrum, and my anecdote is that too much cannabis turns cannabis into something you are simultaneously afraid of being without, and eventually afraid of using, while on the other end of this, using it in "sparing moderation" does in my experience increase my creative ability. Again, the whole chicken-egg argument is something up to debate, but my point I wanted to get across was that responsible habits make a big difference in experience. 👍
Intelligent comment.
“All things in moderation”
my name also is Zach, i agree with you the mode of use and the dosage and also the intentions of use can make. a big difference. i think it's very important to use it with moderation and with long pauses from 2 months to one year.
How did you make that transition. Didnt it feel hard to stop smoking daily
Bro you nailed it. 100% overlaps with my experience on it aswell as someone who’s also been on the wake and bake and weekend toker spectrum of it.
see my anxiety skyrockets on it, as i get reeeeally existential anxiety (heightens my sensitivity to the absurdity of existence and the unknown), but i do get pretty creative on it. so i usually drink a little with it which quells the anxiety and then i really enjoy the way my mind works.
In my experience of having consumed cannabis in varied forms and strengths over the last 26 years is that I'm always more creative in the days after I quit. I've smoked daily for long periods of time, sometimes years but as I've got older I have consumed it less because after a while I find it boring and I am less creative and energetic. I gave up about 8 months ago and the last 8 months have been the most creative of my life. I can get so much more done when I'm not under the influence.
5 years using and for me it greatly increases creativity
@@ParanormalPulse411 Have you quit and seen what happens?
@@oona9039 yes......life becomes a mess again about a month after. I have Lyme disease so it also helps keep inflammation at bay for pain management. I have given up many times over the 5 years of use. Same thing after a month or so every time.
@@ParanormalPulse411 sounds more like you have depression and addiction. CBD does help with pain but the way a marijuana user describes it, they sound about at hooked as an alcoholic. There’s not really much evidence it to claim it makes you more creative, though big pharma is pushing it like crazy since it’s become legal in many states. And now they’re finding it’s sorta horrible for your heart. Not worth your time to defend. Just keep an eye on your habit
@@ParanormalPulse411 Prolly increases your creativity cause you are not in pain. That's not the same thing.
So weed gives the symptom of creativity (openness). So its creative in the moment!
Yes
100% increase creativity
There are crucial points left out of these conflicts: 1. What were the sample size for these studies for/against? 2. What tests were used? 3 (MOST IMPORTANT). How freely available was the data used for these studies, as well as the scripts/analysis plans used to determine results?
I am not a regular cannabis smoker and when I did for like 10 times in 2 months or something like that I noticed that u take more time to process things under its influence.When I am sober I can think much faster many things and probably that's why I don't have the whole picture of them(so less creative) but when I did smoke it made my brain slower on processing maybe that's why I had to imagine more and be more creative. Hope this helps the study area or anything
I like this perspective! Definitely relatable.
Yes, is common and that when you will need to know your dose, and also note, weed will always improvise who you really are. example, if you are creative and you smoke, you will be more and more creative, if you are a gambler by nature it will make you more and more gambler till you get fucked. So now your questions why I feel slow when i smoke, most probably when we smoke we tend to take every single decision into consideration, and that what makes us slower but indeed it helps because it will let you see the problem form all different angles, and booomb realized that you did well. Unlike a normal person who do things faster but he end up by missing a lot of points or luck of competency.
At the end of the day, if you are creative and and you smoke you will be more and more creative remember the dose we talked about!
And if you are naturally sucks and you take weed some more, then you gonna be fucked and more sucks
I remember talking to a very successful musician (really successful, getting awards, being on MTV, etc.) He told me that he wrote the best song texts when he was smoking weed. Being in the business for decades and still being successful it worked for him.....
He's on Instagram
@elitripstore
trauma creates a want to fix it. so you go on a journey to new lands to fix it. but its hard to fix trauma, the body often times keeps the score. its hard for me, as im a software engineer, who isn't able to perform efficiently.
I can say from my own experience as someone who is writing a novel, that cannabis absolutely does enhance my creativity and not only opens my mind to new ideas, but those ideas also come to me as well; often seemingly out of nowhere.
It doesn’t make me more relaxed and often it can make me far more of an anxious and cynical person and despite Huberman’s conclusion, this can enhance my creativity by making my writing take on a sharper and more scathing edge - which definitely tints the style, but I can’t deny that it makes my writing take on a fervour and sense of life to it, that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
yes, it increases creativity, but as you need more and more, that positive aspect goes away and it becomes harder and harder to become creative, and eventually you become far less creative than you would be had you not smoked to begin with
THANK YOU. A puff, puff here and there is relaxing. The ‘advocates’ however act like life is completely worthless without it. They sound about as lost as alcoholics to be frank
Facts it definitely does suppress creativity and also social skills
I'd like to inquire about something important. As someone involved in game development, my passion lies in crafting imaginative worlds filled with non-existent creatures. I'm intrigued by the concept of providing players with immersive journeys that allow them to truly engage with these fictional realms. My approach is akin to an author meticulously penning a novel. Now, onto my query: During the moments just before I fall asleep, I experience something remarkably peculiar. A multitude of vivid images flash before my eyes, corresponding to whatever concept I'm focusing on. For instance, if I'm contemplating a city among the clouds, the intricate details of the buildings, the texture of the walls, and even the vibrant hues all become remarkably clear. These dynamic images move, and there's a sense of substantiality to everything. My question is, what underlies this experience? What processes occur within my brain? It doesn't appear to be a mere transfer of memories from short-term to long-term storage. Could you shed light on what's happening? What am I unlocking in this state? Just to clarify, I'm not alluding to substance use, as I don't engage in such activities.
I definitely feel more creative when I'm high. So if I get high at 4pm, I'm all creative and happy and energetic. Between 8am and 4pm though, I feel like shit. Lethargic, tired, low-energy etc. and certainly not creative.
If I'm not in the habit of smoking, I'm more energetic, more happy and creative enough. If I then get high, I'm super creative. Then I come up against the law of diminishing returns and when I'm high I'm probably a little more creative but also more inert.
It may not increase creativity in everyone but it ABSOLUTELY without a doubt increases mine. It's really is incredible. Not all weed increases my creativity, but certain strains have a marked effect. (I'm still working out which ones work best). My biggest problem though is how fast I forget. I need to carry a little notebook around with me or something. I know that not every "great idea" I have when I'm high is an actual great idea but if it's 1 out of 10 then I could have, on average, 5 genuinely great ideas every time I smoke pot! The stuff I'm working with now that seems to be really effective is called "Apples and Bananas" in case anyone was wondering.
I’m an entrepreneur and I write down in detail every idea I have , some are useless and just felt good at the time but some gain traction and make money!
I have the same issue, I come up with a seemingly genius idea & then poof, it’s gone if I don’t make note of it fast!
Yeah, I definitely need to start writing these ideas down. I also use it to perform tasks around the house that are typically monotonous. Like washing the dishes or folding clothes. All that kinda stuff becomes sooOOOooo much more interesting! I'm sure that it's a "your mileage may very" kinda thing but for me at least, it works a treat!
I've tried it all and none of it increases creativity for me and that sucks . I become very useless
When I am painting or doing art, if I smoke weed, I can do it for longer, without tapping into my left, logic side, of my brain....which says things like, you shouldn't paint this long, you might get a cramp, you need to eat, you need to check your email, etc. Weed allows me to focus on something for longer, how is that?
Probably cause you have a depression issue. You’re speaking about it like it’s not just a “time to time” thing. A healthy brain generally won’t turn to weed for creativity. I speak from experience. Marijuana addiction is quite real. And yes, sadly, it’s just as addictive as the rest of the “Insta-cures for sadness and creativity”
its dopamine, more dopamine= longer attention span, less distraction
@@sgtgiggleslol that's garbage. Inability to focus is depression?
@@rinathama so you’re proving my point?
It shuts off the RAS, reticular activating system, which normally screens out unnecessary, non-life threatening data from our environment. So the feeling of being aware of more stuff might give you the impression that you are feeling more creative.
What are the three functions of the reticular activating system?
The Reticular Activating System is responsible for our wakefulness, our ability to focus, our fight-flight response, and how we ultimately perceive the world.
Extraordinary
LOL. I have complex PTSD. It does not turn off the RAS or the amygdala or any fear response at all in me. In fact, if I get too big a hit, it heightens my PTSD fight/flight response (turns into just flight really but amps up the paranoia and unjustified fear). Usually, it doesn't lower my high-strung adrenaline reactions much, but it does provide access to more information in my own mind, allowing me to make connections I never do sober, time and time again. I'm a writer, so this comes in quite handy for writing fiction.
Im thinking im a divergent. I see and hear things in all different directions all at the same time and understand them in a blink of an I. ❤ It!
Its funny that you mention creativity after use, before my very 1st smoke, my level of creativity is set. Whatever level you are thats you. I was a 7/10 i guess. I smoked hard my 1st time. At 19. Laughing smiling have the best time. Then i noticed while being sober afterwards, my creativity shot up! Just the options I created for myself no matter the topic just appear. I grade mine now at 8/10 9/10 whatever, something changed and im 30 years old and its still there. I do not smoke anymore. I have a daughter she needs 100 focus
Hope this helps someone
It doesn't increase creativity but puts you (or, me at least) in a headspace where creativity can flourish.
true.
i know this from my own experience
i always said that weed does not make you more creative.
its gets u easier in a creative state.
it does decrease anxiety short term.
i believe long term, for everybody, it will increase anxiety by "10 fold"
So basically, while it doesn't make you more creative per se, it does removes the 'filter' of creativity. That about right?
Very helpful ,tnx.💪
In my case it really helps me when I need to get very creative… 😅
So, the short answer is yes, indirectly.
In summary, weed smokers are just more happier and open minded. We are less stress and don’t get burn outs. Just chilling and being productive while flying on the cloud 9 ~ doubleog
is that satire or your addiction speaking?
@@benfrese3573It probably depends. Like your comment, is it your ignorance speaking or just a general closed mindedness? In your case, it sounds like a little bit of both. Be better than that my guy. You'll be happier in the long run.
@@bishopp14 The internet is the best place to meet people who have seen it all. Thank you for your life advice and have fun smoking :)
@benfrese3573 Thanks dude. I appreciate that. And while I personally haven't seen "it all" I've seen quite a bit. And if I had any life advice to give I suppose it'd be to try your best to do what makes you happy as often as you can (so long as you're not hurting anyone else in the process). To let your loved ones know how much you care every chance you get and to leave the world a better place than you found it.
Thank You Dr. Huberman. I am wondering if i can share with you my experience with canabis ( How i can communicate with you, i have interest in the subject matter), i think there is more than creativity only, there is a higher state of clarity in the thinking process.Thanks.
Cannabis starts off like that, but once you do it all the time, for many years without a break, then probably not as much. I can't imagine these studies can really say from just what we see in people who have used weed such a long time. The basic problem some run into, is they rely on it basically all the time, until it becomes symptomatically almost like any other addiction. However its NOT on the same level as addicts to heroin, methamphetamine, crack etc, in which debilitating symptoms of illness get further complicated by a deadly physical dependency. Weed doesn't destroy so many that way. Weed isn't a gateway, to those addictions either on its own. Weed does complete links in the brain important for the creating process, of music especially, but also art or dance. Ive known of many writers who claim they find their work to be on a higher level if they used weed. My first time back on it since using only a few times was tough, in my later 40s. So i went slow, and as I predicted, had one anxiety fit that caused vomiting. Oh well its the cherry, so i wanted that to go ok, and it got easier. Right away I picked up a guitar and started feeling around the frets, while watching my fingers in a mirror. It was really sth else, all this connection of music just making up song after song, I was like wtf am I doing, this is great. Trying to leave weed for the first time, when you started the first time, earlier in life, it can be very hard to shake, but as you come back to it with newer eyes, better stuff, and a safer more mature approach, its been workable. I didn't smoke much after I did the first "big quit". Theres a type of excitement that goes with it in younger years, I mistook at times the experience surrounded by such youthful optimism as being the work of the drug, when it was really only partly. for instance I experimented at 16, became a full time user by 19, and continued with very few breaks till I was 30. I still smoked it once in awhile, but I had my first few real panic and anxiety trips, and one serious blackout. I was in patient in a lunatic farm for about a year at the beginning, was coping with heavy weight of anxiety from my life, and became wary of what I was doing. I was going into a stronger dependence on opiates as it had clearly gotten too heady for me to do much else. Im now in a midground, using it very sparingly to buy my soul back from methadone, and it isn't easy.
Am I the only one watching this after being high ?😅😂
Keith Richards, Joe Walsh, Jimmie Hendricks. To name a few guitarist that used Sativa
It's not that complicated, marijuana can make people more creative, point plank period. I don't give a crap about biased experiments. I've seen it over and over and over again with people who were friends etc, it can make you more creative no doubt. Enough of the BS. I've composed many creative vocal melodies on pot while not being able to compose to save my life while off cannabis.
Same . Played piano on few year without it and now been smoking before practicing and am making WAY more progress, improvising like never before, discovering new sounds, etc all the time now. Type of weed helps. I'm just disccovering strains and all ;)
Law of diminishing returns. Look into the energy and history of the plant in more primitive settings.
I type more muses/jokes under the influence, weirdest part it suddenly happened one month after several years of use.
Yes, is common and that when you will need to know your dose, and also note, weed will always improvise who you really are. example, if you are creative and you smoke, you will be more and more creative, if you are a gambler by nature it will make you more and more gambler till you get fucked. So now your questions why I feel slow when i smoke, most probably when we smoke we tend to take every single decision into consideration, and that what makes us slower but indeed it helps because it will let you see the problem form all different angles, and booomb realized that you did well. Unlike a normal person who do things faster but he end up by missing a lot of points or luck of competency.
At the end of the day, if you are creative and and you smoke you will be more and more creative remember the dose we talked about!
And if you are naturally sucks and you take weed some more, then you gonna be fucked and more sucks
Did you know?
Raphael Mechoulam "the godfather of cannabis research 1962" isolation of THC, the main active principle of cannabis. In 1963 the USA federal government studied funding his research.
I would love to be a study subject for marijuana
*_Nothing, NOTHING increases creativity more than the following:_*
*_Have a pint of beer. Have max 1 more. When/if the creativity starts, you stop drinking beer and start drinking coffee and continue drinking coffee as long as it flows and you are writing/planning it all._*
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(I wrote this comment before watching this clip. I will now watch the clip and see if it's mentioned(it's not since alcohol is a no-no.) )
Hell Yeah! Make those test on creative people... Photographers... 🙃 Or actors...
No one calls it pot lol
Uhmmm yes, we do???
Also yes
I was working on Receurdos de la Alhambra on guitar and progress was slow. I took 20mg of THC and an hour layer I was playing better than ever. I could play the notes to their value at a tempo I was having trouble with when I had no THC in my system. THC seems to have helped me get over the hump with that piece of music.
It certainly makes you pretend you're a real medical doctor more shamelessly.
What do you mean? He is an associate professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine
@@kartoshka253 He hawks his very low-regulated dietary supplements and believes sunscreen is just as dangerous as melanoma. He speaks far outside of his specialty and expertise. He doesn't summarize or cite papers correctly, adding his own spin/interpretation that wasn't in the paper (including this video). He's not a critical thinker. He's someone who makes a supposition by his own feelings then goes and tries to find research to support his supposition. That isn't how science works. If I were a betting person, I'd wager he'll say something crazy that goes viral and get himself canceled eventually. He's all about money, hubris, and ego. No surprise, he is one of many Lex Fridman creations where "anything goes" so long as you dress it up in credentials, slap a hefty price tag on it, and produce, produce, produce.
nobody calls weed pot anymore 😂😂😂
How about Ativan?
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Love rhe topicl Can someone point to a reference or study mentioning "the criteria of creative brainstorming", as mentioned? What are the "criteria of a thought being truly novel"? Very curious to read/know more about this. Thanks!
Yes u are most likely correct
you should smoke and then talk about it.
Andy does not like pot😂😅
i liked it to make it exact 420 likes, haha
Come and check how it has got till now
😂 well played
From the looks of the comment section you all completely missed the conclusion of this video lmao
Doing drugs to be creative? That’s a no for me. But I’m retired law enforcement and I’ve seen the destruction of drug use.
I agree, but he's talking about using it as a tool, not abuse. Using anything in excess is very damaging. I think if you're using anything as an "escape" means you're going down the wrong path.
@@dogma7911 most of the people who fiercely defend it though really do have a problem. Taking a puff a few times a month can be beneficial. It’s the people who scream “it’s my antidepressant!!!” As someone whose significant other is a neurologist, you just can’t turn on neurons that fast and claim it’s harmless. Ultimately though, it’s about to dopamine receptors. About every substance fires them off like crazy. Screw with those, and your playing with fire
The answer is politics.
No it doesn't n I see it every day . Liar. Top stars say it screwed music up n took longer. Im creative without it. I use hemp like the ancients . No THC high . Demovangelis - cosmic garden renewal. Demovangelis - the duty of 3 in 1 on Google. No Audo tune or computers. Old school. I do all instruments n write songs with no outside help. No plagiarism like pot heads
Sounds like you could use a little THC my good man!
@@bishopp14 actually sounds like you have no idea of the precision n finger stretches n complexity of many songs in comparison to yo rip off artists with just 2 chords like whole lotta love which they stole from small faces. It's called you need loving. Etc lol. Today's dopers sick n use audi tune n can't even play . They're a full band with tuns of outside help n I operate alone as a full band lol
@@bishopp14 Angus young don't even drink. Ian Anderson Jethro Tull ? No pot. No drugs. Stevie nicks bashed all the crap after clean. Ringo Starr said it slowed things down . So? Etc
@@bishopp14 so slow the first song down if can on the Google site n see it's a very busy fluttering mix of chords n sharps n flats in comparison to simple shit by Ozzy black sabbath lol. You play ? If so you'll see
@@Charles-tv6oi I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about but I stand by my previous comment. That being said, I do not play. One of my big regrets is never learning to play an instrument. Maybe that's the disconnect here?
@zach7074 yea same before I stopped smoking I was going hard until fear and discomfort started to overwhelm me and I couldn’t make music as good as when I didn’t smoke as much. I’ve observed the more you smoke the more suppressed creativity becomes because your mind was tricked to only associate whatever task your doing with weed because you were under the influence while doing whatever
Creatively?yeah bob Marley 😃
I had a folder in wich I was saving HL extended episodes, I deleted that folder :) because I will watch them all, being of much importance, crystal clear expressed, I guess this is the result of involvement, conviction and passion about the subject, from the bottom of my heart thank you professore for sharing science, happy new episodes, happy new year ! 🎉🎉🎉🤍🌎🕊️