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High thoughts are the ideas, realizations, and mental rabbit holes people experience while under the influence. They range from funny and nonsensical to deep and introspective, depending on your mental state and the substance you take. So, if you’re looking to have a fun time with friends or a reflective conversation with yourself, look no further! Below, we’re providing the ultimate list of high thoughts for any mood and occasion. We’ll also cover what causes high thoughts and whether being high affects your feelings.
Hilarious & Mind-Blowing High Thoughts
- What does water taste like?
- Do pets name their owners?
- Is math invented or discovered?
- Is the “S” or the “C” silent in “scent?”
- The number of people older than you never goes up.
- Do I exist because I think, or do I think because I exist?
- A human hand touched every brick in every building you see.
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Funny High Thoughts
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Get the giggles going with these funny high thoughts. If you’re feeling euphoric, the following thoughts will only lift you higher. Here are some hilarious questions and statements to kick off loads of laughter:
- Is a hot dog a sandwich?
- A “Z” is just a “7” on its knees.
- The word “bed” looks like a bed.
- Crabs probably think that fish can fly.
- People without glasses are seeing for free.
- If you’re waiting for the waiter, aren’t you the waiter?
- Who closes the bus door after the bus driver gets off?
- A single Sour Patch Kid would kill a Victorian-era child.
- Nothing is ever really on fire, but rather fire is on things.
- Why do we cry when it’s the onions that are getting hurt?
- If oranges are orange, why are limes not called “greens?”
- If you smoke weed on a boat, does that make it seaweed?
- Every broken clock tells you the exact time it passed away.
- If you clean a vacuum, do you become the vacuum cleaner?
- If procrastinators had a club, would they ever hold a meeting?
- If tomatoes are a fruit, does that mean ketchup is a smoothie?
- If you drop soap on the floor, is the floor clean, or is the soap dirty?
- Someone has probably imagined punching your face in a fake scenario.
- It has to be a little disappointing to be #11 on the FBI’s most wanted list.
- If you buy a bigger bed, you’re left with more bed room but less bedroom.
- If we’re not meant to eat midnight snacks, why is there a light in the fridge?
- Actions supposedly speak louder than words, but speaking is also an action.
- Do we ever really find ourselves, or do we just misplace ourselves all the time?
- Once you have a Ph.D., every meeting you go to becomes a doctor’s appointment.
- Searching for a new laptop online is forcing your current computer to dig its own grave.
- Watching a graduation ceremony is like sitting through a movie that’s entirely end credits.
- If James Bond is the most famous spy in the world, doesn’t that make him the worst spy?
- Belle and the Beast have to buy all new furniture for their castle—it all turned into people!
- Making a typo in an online argument is the equivalent of your voice cracking in a verbal argument.
- Your fingers have fingertips, but your toes do not have toe tips, yet you can tiptoe—and not tipfinger.
Mind-Blowing High Thoughts
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These small but mighty thoughts make the mundane feel magical. There are tons of things we take for granted that are actually super weird or crazy when you think about them. Below, we’re taking a deeper dive into seemingly normal occurrences to give you an “aha!” moment during your next high:
- Do pets name their owners?
- Who taught the first teacher?
- Technically, the brain named itself.
- An echo can’t talk, but it can still reply.
- Which came first, the plant or the seed?
- No one has ever been in a fully empty room.
- How does a sponge hold water if it’s full of holes?
- The number of people older than you never goes up.
- In order to fall asleep, we have to pretend to be asleep.
- There’s no way to prove that we all see the same colors.
- 99.99% of the human population doesn’t know you exist.
- Humans cut down trees for paper on which to draw trees.
- You see people every single day that you’ll never see again.
- A human hand touched every brick in every building you see.
- If you’re in a competition by yourself, do you come in first or last?
- If you try to fail, but end up succeeding, which did you actually do?
- Millions of people are doing the exact same thing as you right now.
- Being “up” for something means the same as being “down” for something.
- Captain Hook was actually trying to stop Peter Pan from kidnapping children.
- They call a show’s first episode its pilot because it’s the first thing that puts them on air.
- How are we expected to know laws when lawyers go to school for years to study them?
- Even though our fingers are different lengths, they all line up when we curl our fingers in.
- The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in history.
- The age you are when you’re exactly half your parents’ age is the same age they were when you were born.
- Memory foam doesn’t remember us, it remembers itself without us. When it starts to remember us, we throw it away.
- Somewhere in the world, there’s a tree that sprouted the same day you were born and has been growing along with you.
- Not so long ago, we had to physically mail our funny videos to a TV show and hope they chose to share it with viewers.
- If the Internet still exists in 100 years, there will be billions of inactive accounts belonging to people who have died.
- How can your body replicate the feeling of falling from high altitudes in a nightmare if you’ve never fallen like that before?
- Have you realized that castles are the opposite of prisons? The main purpose of castles is to keep the enemy out and the people safe inside. The main purpose of prisons is to keep the enemy inside and the people safe outside.
Deep High Thoughts
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Prepare to do a double take with these deep and insightful ideas. When you’re high, you may feel like you’ve unlocked deeper truths about the world or yourself. Here are some introspective thoughts and realizations about society, humanity, existence, and more:
- One day, you’ll be someone’s ancestor.
- The number of people older than you never goes up.
- If money is at the root of all evil, why do churches ask for it?
- You see people every single day that you’ll never see again.
- The more serious a relationship gets, the more casual it gets.
- Somebody dreamt about you last night, and you have no idea.
- If dogs actually understood people, they wouldn’t like us as much.
- The only difference between boredom and relaxation is enjoyment.
- The human brain is so powerful that it can overpower the will of itself.
- The people who need to be loved the most are often very hard to love.
- In 100 years, there will be a completely new set of people in every city.
- Every single decision you’ve made in life has led to where you are now.
- You might have made a decision that saved your life without knowing it.
- You’ve never seen your own face before—only in photos and reflections.
- There is not a single thing in the entire world that everyone can agree on.
- Every human in history has witnessed the same sun and moon as you have.
- Kids are bullied for being different, while adults are praised for being different.
- Life starts as a whole bunch of firsts, but slowly becomes a whole bunch of lasts.
- Humans getting to know the universe is actually the universe getting to know itself.
- It’s highly likely that most of the trees you look at will still be here when you’re gone.
- So many people from your past know a version of yourself that doesn’t exist anymore.
- Humans advocate not judging a book by its cover, but also romanticize love at first sight.
- The secret to getting good at anything is the ability to handle being bad at it for a long time.
- You could throw a rock into a lake and be the last person to touch that rock until the end of time.
- When my dog brings me the same toy, I wonder if it’s their favorite toy or if they think it’s my favorite toy.
- Life is just a hallucination caused by breathing oxygen, because when you stop breathing it, everything goes away.
- When we’re young, we sneak out of our houses to go to parties. When we’re old, we sneak out of parties to go home.
- We spend our teenage years longing for the space of a double bed, but we spend our adult years trying to find someone to fill it.
- People with childhood trauma often don’t feel like adults because they’ve been functioning as adults from such a young age.
- There are millions of different occupations in the world, but we pick our careers based on studying 10 to 15 subjects by age 18 to 21.
- Every word in every language started out as gibberish until one person convinced enough people that what they said was a real word.
- On any given day in a hospital, you can find people having the best day of their life, the worst day of their life, the first day of their life, and the last day of their life under one roof.
Creative High Thoughts
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Get your creative juices flowing with these unique high thoughts. Ever wondered what water tastes like, or whether dogs can get a song stuck in their head? Probably not! However, unpacking random topics you’ve never questioned before creates the most fun and memorable high. Here are some weird, witty, and wacky thoughts to pick your brain:
- What does water taste like?
- Can you daydream at night?
- Is there a synonym for “synonym?”
- Is the “S” or the “C” silent in “scent?”
- What if the wind is just air saying hello?
- Can dogs get a song stuck in their head?
- Air conditioning is just domesticated wind.
- Ice cubes float in a pool of their own blood.
- Why does pizza taste better when you’re high?
- If I hit myself and it hurts, am I weak or strong?
- Many tattoos have been ruined by earthquakes.
- Pregnant women are the only true bodybuilders.
- If you get scared half to death twice, do you die?
- Why is it called a building when it’s already built?
- Anxiety is just conspiracy theories about yourself.
- If 2 vegans are arguing, is it still considered beef?
- Why do we call it rush hour when nothing moves?
- Who decided the alphabet was in alphabetical order?
- If someone dies in a living room, is it still a living room?
- What if every time we eat an apple, we’re eating a tree baby?
- What do teeth taste like? Does everyone’s teeth taste different?
- If you get out of the shower clean, how does your towel get dirty?
- Is a gingerbread man made of house, or is his house made of flesh?
- When an earthquake happens, coffins become underground maracas.
- If aliens came to Earth, we would have to explain why we have so many movies of us killing them.
- Being afraid to check your bank account is the adult version of being afraid to check your grades.
- How long does someone have to be dead before it’s considered archaeology instead of grave robbing?
- Making a typo in an online argument is the equivalent of your voice cracking in a verbal argument.
- Teenagers drive like they’re on borrowed time. Elderly people drive like they’ve got all the time in the world.
- Whoever created the tradition of not seeing the bride in the wedding dress beforehand saved countless husbands from hours of dress shopping.
Philosophical High Thoughts About Life
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These philosophical thoughts can lead to new perspectives in life. While the following questions might not have a definitive answer, they’re definitely interesting to discuss with friends or reflect on your own—especially under the influence! Here are some deep, complex, and meaningful questions about existence:
- What is justice?
- Who created God?
- Is morality objective?
- Is beauty subjective?
- Can we justify violence or war?
- Is math invented or discovered?
- What does it mean to be human?
- Do we have a duty to help others?
- What makes a work of art beautiful?
- Why do we experience time linearly?
- Can we truly know anything for certain?
- Why is there something rather than nothing?
- Are you still the same person who went to bed last night?
- If our lives are chapters in a larger story, who is the author?
- What if our understanding of intelligence is fundamentally flawed?
- Why do profound insights often emerge during mundane activities?
- What if our ideas are seeds that grow into the realities we experience?
- How would our lives change if we lived in the moment without judgment?
- At some point, your parents set you down and never picked you up again.
- Is it possible that other dimensions exist that are completely invisible to us?
- If we are all interconnected, how do our actions ripple through the universe?
- If you’re high, is time moving faster, or are you just altering your perception of it?
- What if our emotions are just temporary visitors in the vast landscape of our minds?
- What if every time we sneeze, we’re briefly escaping reality into another dimension?
- What if our dreams are messages from the universe guiding us toward our true paths?
- Currently, you are both the oldest you have ever been and the youngest you will ever be.
- What if the ideas we have while high are simply revealing truths we bury in our daily lives?
- If getting high is a form of accessing deeper truths about the universe, what else can we discover?
- What if every decision we make creates a new branch in the universe's tree of responsibilities?
- Could our shared experience of getting high lead to a collective consciousness that transcends individuality?
Psychological High Thoughts
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Be prepared to question your behavior with these psychological thoughts. If you want to experience a deeper understanding of yourself while high, the following thoughts are just for you! Here are some ideas, questions, and realizations about they way you think and act:
- Is love or hate stronger?
- Is nature or nurture more important?
- Do we have free will, or is it an illusion?
- How does fear influence decisions and behavior?
- If all my memories were erased, would I still be me?
- What if death is just waking up from the dream of life?
- Do I exist because I think, or do I think because I exist?
- Time is just a human invention to make sense of change.
- If I fully accept that I control nothing, am I truly free then?
- What if my dreams are reality, and waking life is an illusion?
- Is every person we meet a mirror reflecting parts of ourselves?
- Am I just a story I keep telling myself to make sense of the past?
- Why do we feel nostalgic for moments we don’t really remember?
- What if our dreams are just the universe’s way of communicating with us?
- How much of what I think is shaped by the limits of the language I speak?
- What if my entire perception of reality is just a projection of my own mind?
- If we could step outside of our bodies, would we see ourselves differently?
- What if nothing around me is real, but just signals interpreted by my brain?
- If I can feel fear or happiness in a dream, are those emotions any less real?
- What if our lives are just chapters in a much larger story written by the universe?
- What if the universe is constantly trying to teach us, but we often miss the lessons?
- If the universe is constantly expanding, are our minds capable of expanding with it?
- If reality is an illusion, do we create the life we experience through our perceptions?
- What if every time we create something, we're channeling the energy of the universe?
- Is our experience of reality shaped by our emotions, or do our emotions reflect reality?
- What if the brain is just a receiver, and consciousness exists independently in the universe?
- When you’re high, do you feel more in tune with nature, or is it just the THC altering your perception?
- If THC can alter your brain chemistry, does that mean it can reveal hidden parts of your personality?
- Does smoking weed make you more creative, or do you just unlock creativity that was already there?
- Is it possible to feel high and sober simultaneously in different parts of your consciousness?
- If we’re all connected through a universal consciousness, can we tap into it when we meditate or smoke?
What are high thoughts?
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High thoughts refer to the ideas that people have while under the influence. They’re the funny, deep, random, or introspective realizations people have when they take psychoactive substances, such as cannabis or psychedelics. They may reflect someone’s subconscious thoughts, be an extension of their creativity, or offer deep and meaningful perspectives on life. [1] X Research source
Frequently Asked Questions
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1What causes high thoughts? Some research suggests that high thoughts are caused by the psychoactive effects of substances, like cannabis, which change brain function and perception. [2] X Trustworthy Source Science Direct Online archive of peer-reviewed research on scientific, technical and medical topics Go to source THC fits into your brain’s CB1 receptors, which control things like memory, decision-making, and emotion. When THC binds to these receptors, it can disrupt your usual thought patterns. That’s why time may seem to stretch, or you experience unexpected and unusual thoughts when you’re high.
- Additionally, THC increases activity in the frontal regions of the brain linked to creativity and spontaneous thought, and decreases the mental filtering systems that keep your ideas in check. [3] X Trustworthy Source Science Direct Online archive of peer-reviewed research on scientific, technical and medical topics Go to source
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2Does being high affect your feelings? Yes, being high can definitely impact your feelings. Substances like cannabis, psychedelics, and MDMA can distort your sense of time, enhance sensory experiences, and lower your emotional filters. You might feel more euphoric, calm, curious, insightful, gracious, anxious, or paranoid, depending on the substance, dosage, and your mental state at the time. [4] X Research source
- In fact, studies show that cannabis can affect the brain’s ability to process emotions, especially in areas related to emotional recognition and empathy. [5] X Trustworthy Source PLOS ONE Online peer-reviewed, open access scientific research journal Go to source
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3What is it called when you think you’re high but aren't? The feeling of thinking you’re high without being under the influence can be caused by the placebo effect, where a person experiences a real physiological or psychological response to a treatment or substance that is inactive. Simply put, your expectation or belief in being high can make you think you are, even if no substance is present in your system. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15918351/
- Alternatively, anxiety, derealization, depersonalization, sleep deprivation, and other medical conditions may alter your perception and make your body feel high when you’re not .
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- ↑ https://www.netacare.org/learn/blog/are-high-thoughts-real
- ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163725897820013?via=ihub
- ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028390818301485
- ↑ https://source.colostate.edu/study-points-to-cannabis-effect-on-emotion-processing/
- ↑ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149764