Do Drugs Inspire Creativity?

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In a word, yes. In more then one word: it depends on what drugs and what's around me as far as instruments and environment. Also depends on my remembering the music the next day (which, I need to get an 8 track recorder).

I tried Ritalin (officially prescribed). buth that made me very unstable.

I tried dextroamphetamine (officially prescribed), but that may me rather numb.

I tried various illegal substances including LSD, MDMA, levoamphetamine, methylone and 2-FMA (self-medicated). Those did benefit me a lot, but the stimulants to tend to be addictive and result in dependence.

Currently, I try to stay free from any medication most of the time, although I do self-medicate occasionally.

My prefered combo for alleviating the more negative Autism symtoms is a mixture of levoamphetamine, methylone and 2-FMA.

2-FMA had the most favorable impact on my creativity, but it tends to drain the body from water and is very addictive.

Are you kidding? Drugs are dangerous. I've never ever heard of such a theory, but it still dangerous.

Here's an interesting graph on that:

Yes, but at the price of sanity.

I was addicted to butane, lived largely in my own world, didn't like to see people wanted to be just left alone with my imagination. eventually isolated myself from everyone i knew and then my imagination started to turn dark, now i live with a terrible vision haunting me almost constantly in my head. fortunately my auty-ness prohibits me from being too bothered about it. its really not pleasant though.

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It all depends on how much you use, what you use and when you use it.

Sedatives can help you deal with anxiety, but using too much will distance you from the rest of the world.

Psychedelics can bring enlightenment AND help you deal with anxiety, but they typically make you incapable of doing anything productive for 6 to 12 hours straight.

Stimulants can increase productivity and/or your social skills, but they tend to be quite addictive and commonly lead to dependency when used carelessly. Dependency means that you need to take a stimulant at least every few days. It means that not taking it for a longer time will actually have a negative impact on productivity and/or social skills once you developed dependency.

All substances have their own upsides and downsides. That applies to both illegal and legal ones.

Drugs give the illusion of broadening the mind, when really, you're just high. I feel that the best artist's are those who need not rely on some mind altering substance in order to be imaginative. It's like psychological steroids or something. It's not exactly a respectable way to go about things.

That applies to some substances, but not all.

Substances in the category of "stimulants" do generally increase one's capacity to process sensory data, emotional data or other data, depending on the substance.

Psychedelics also can broaden the mind, but in a different way. It's pretty common to learn more about oneself and the world one lives in during a single LSD trip than during a lifetime of therapy.




Relying on some mind altering substance is never a good thing.

Using it responsibly without having to rely on it, however, allows one to unlock potential that's impossible to unlock otherwise... with but limited downsides to it.

I don't know if drugs inspire creativity, but cannabis does help me ignore my chronic back pain well enough to be productive. It also regulates my emotional state, so that's helps me from feeling overwhelmed, which also aids in maintaining productivity.

Dosage is key though, taking enough to be inebriated will not be productive. I think that would apply to any drug.

Oh, dear Lord. I have never come up with any better story IN MY LIFE than when I smoke a joint.

Like, I'll be sitting there watching a documentary, or an episode of Star Trek - and my mind is already racing at it's happy pace of six billion miles a second. Then, all of a sudden, the idea hits you. Perhaps not like a lightbulb turning on. More like those REALLY OLD cameras from the 1800's where the bulb explodes. Except it's more like a thermonuclear explosion. As soon as that one idea sparks, the story falls into place one piece after the next. Sometimes I'm frantically writing in my notebook as fast as I can because my brain is working faster than my hand can write, and if I don't get it down, I'll forget it by morning. And then I just look down at my finished creation and go... "WOW!"

I'm not trying to advocate drugs in any way because as far as I'm concerned everyone experiences drugs differently. I can only talk from my own experiences, but yes I found that the recreational drugs I experimented with definitely increased my creative capacity. It allowed me to tap into the highly imaginative part of my brain that I thought I lost as a child. I would listen to a song or watch a movie while high and within minutes I'd be inspired to write 30 pages. Though I stopped taking drugs once it developed into an unhealthy addiction. It started to intensify my anxiety.

I know that Charles Bukowski used to drink all night while writing, and he was very successful at the craft. But Fritz Lieber, on the other hand, claimed that before he dried out, drinking had nearly wrecked his writing career. I've written after imbibing, and I must say, for the most part I just felt stupefied. As for hard drugs, I have no experience to say one way or the other.