Thirst for knowledge.
It was a conventional knowledge - meaning a fact, or near-fact, that is widely, and more importantly, easily accepted by people - during the late 1800's & 1900's, that drinking opium substances or smoking opium would result in violent behavior, and was also to be blamed for what was called "tapping the lion" - a practice that meant delivering a strike to ones face (often homeless and "unfortunates") that would simultaniously break the nose and gouge the eyes; before trapping these unfortunate people in barrels and sending them dashing down steep hills. This practice, of sorts, is now known be the one of freemacers' children - smug, rich and ultimately evil youngsters.
But to those who did in fact chase the dragon - or those who fraternized with users - did indeed know that opium rendered you absolutely useless, turning the user into a sad sack of skin and bones on the floor with a pipe screwed into his lips.
I use these facts to refference to what has been written about opium-like substances being released in the process of acquiring knowledge (and in my opinion can also be acquired from understanding a fact or coming to grasp a thought of your own), which to me seems to liven one up. As those substances are realesed into your bloodstream, you are more likely to feel the euforia without the prevailing sedation.
Much like nicotine, which at first sooths and midly sedates, as it were, to later, as that short rest that the body feels as an effect of the nicotine, the brain then starts up, more active than before taking in the nicotine.
The difference between the opium-like substances realesed through learning, and actual opium alcaloids, are unkown to me, but clearly substantial.
However, one must wonder; can the fatigue one feels after heavy intake of new knowledge be more than merely getting tired, but indeed an effect of these natural human opiums more similar to actual opium? What can one get from massive - maybe even to the point where it would be forced - intake of knowledge, not too unlike the brainwash-scene in Clockwork Orange, only difference being that one would of course be volontary strapped in to that chair.
Can one maybe effect ones mind in the sense of more vivid dreams and a clearer mind while awake and such by heavy intake of knowledge before continuing your day or proceeding with going to sleep?
These are the facts of Nicotine: Each cigarette contains roughly 1 mg of nicotine, most of which is burnt - and never inhaled - at 95 degrees celcius; which is roughly what the cherry of a cigarette burns at. It takes circa seven minutes for the nicotine to reach the brain from the time when it's inhaled, and 40 to 60 mg of nicotine is the lethal dose for a human male. A personal theory is that if a man is shut into an air-tight room with 40 to 60 cigarettes, all slowly burning at a slightly lower heat than 95 degrees, this man should drop dead within seven minutes from the nicotine-intake ... dying from smoking two to three packs of cigarettes.
However ... what is the ultimate point here, is that all this is knowledge I have lodged into my brain and that I remember, and something that has helped me release opium into my body.
But to those who did in fact chase the dragon - or those who fraternized with users - did indeed know that opium rendered you absolutely useless, turning the user into a sad sack of skin and bones on the floor with a pipe screwed into his lips.
I use these facts to refference to what has been written about opium-like substances being released in the process of acquiring knowledge (and in my opinion can also be acquired from understanding a fact or coming to grasp a thought of your own), which to me seems to liven one up. As those substances are realesed into your bloodstream, you are more likely to feel the euforia without the prevailing sedation.
Much like nicotine, which at first sooths and midly sedates, as it were, to later, as that short rest that the body feels as an effect of the nicotine, the brain then starts up, more active than before taking in the nicotine.
The difference between the opium-like substances realesed through learning, and actual opium alcaloids, are unkown to me, but clearly substantial.
However, one must wonder; can the fatigue one feels after heavy intake of new knowledge be more than merely getting tired, but indeed an effect of these natural human opiums more similar to actual opium? What can one get from massive - maybe even to the point where it would be forced - intake of knowledge, not too unlike the brainwash-scene in Clockwork Orange, only difference being that one would of course be volontary strapped in to that chair.
Can one maybe effect ones mind in the sense of more vivid dreams and a clearer mind while awake and such by heavy intake of knowledge before continuing your day or proceeding with going to sleep?
These are the facts of Nicotine: Each cigarette contains roughly 1 mg of nicotine, most of which is burnt - and never inhaled - at 95 degrees celcius; which is roughly what the cherry of a cigarette burns at. It takes circa seven minutes for the nicotine to reach the brain from the time when it's inhaled, and 40 to 60 mg of nicotine is the lethal dose for a human male. A personal theory is that if a man is shut into an air-tight room with 40 to 60 cigarettes, all slowly burning at a slightly lower heat than 95 degrees, this man should drop dead within seven minutes from the nicotine-intake ... dying from smoking two to three packs of cigarettes.
However ... what is the ultimate point here, is that all this is knowledge I have lodged into my brain and that I remember, and something that has helped me release opium into my body.