Ask Lemmy

Flying paragliders and paramotors. After I land and go home for the day I feel the happiest I have ever known.

What's my favorite high?!

non-drug

Aight imma head out

Sex

Fresh clear water when you’re alarmingly thirsty.

Can't believe no one has said "flow state" yet.

I wait tables, and I'm damn good at it. When everything goes just right on a really busy shift, it's common for experienced waitresses to hit flow state and it's one of many addictive patterns that keeps people, especially people with ADHD, in this job.

For those unfamiliar, flow state is a qualitative shift in consciousness that increases awareness of task-related stimuli and decreased awareness of irrelevant stimuli while speeding up reaction time, draining away uncertainty, and making every small success feel like it's propelling you forward. It's got some of the energy of an adrenaline rush without the comedown — flow state gracefully fades out without a crash. It's like you just became more efficient, everything you need is right to hand, and triaging and prioritizing the subtasks in front of you becomes effortless.

It is the second-best part of my job, even better than the feeling of genuinely helping people.

Being of use to someone else - something as simple as opening a door or something as hard as helping someone change a tire on the road. That karma is like a hit of the stuff I don't do anymore.

Having a really good piss

Hyperfixation, where you watch a really good movie or read a really good book and it starts to color everything around you

The goosebumps you get from that part of a song

When the code finally works, the computer issues are fixed, the kitchen is cleaned.

Being genuinely surprised by a joke that hits just right, and laughing so hard I tear up.

Feeling loved and appriciated.

Fixed a tricky bug.

Excuse me for my English. Approximately one and one half meters. Smaller highs are very ordinary but higher highs scare me

Generosity. The warm fuzzy tingly cozy sensation I get when I help a friend out, or even the occasional stranger, with getting a ride, or a meal, or taking the edge off an emergency expense, it never gets old.

Unfortunately not in a position to do that right now. I'm accumulating an emergency fund for making some bigger moves later...

When a recursive function I wrote works perfectly first try

If you get good enough at playing guitar, especially acoustic, you can literally buzz. It's only really apparent when you stop that you can feel that buzz fade away.

Installing a Linux Distribution

Being locked-in nerding out doing technical stuff

Also, hot bath in cold weather

Runners high!

Tasty cold beverage after long physical activity (day hiking or biking)

Teaching: That moment when someone's eyes light up and their whole facial expression changes from confusion to understanding. I love the challenge of figuring out how to reach that with each person.

Dancing or working out to my favorite songs: It feels like my body is taken over by the music, and I can keep going endlessly while everything else fades away.

Like, have you ever gone on a sugar fast for a couple days then drank some fruit juice? That shit hits HARD.

When I finish doing a lot of chores or one big one!

When someone I've gifted food to sends me a message later in the day telling me the food, bread, whatever was sensational. It tells me that I've nailed their food preferences and tastes. I've done a good job.

Food is my love language and it's how I like to say thank you and show appreciation.

Eating a spicy meal that is at my max tolerance such that I can continue to eat as normal. I can get a high from that 🥵😋

Finding things for people. In another life I'd be a librarian or detective, I guess.

When you eat something so perfectly good.

Scuba diving, the nitrogen in your body becomes more soluble so you end up with this mild intoxication. Very nice feeling to have (Prob. Not my favorite non drug high, but i thought it'd be interesting)

Really good sex.

Lifting weights close or to failure.

good'ol fresh morning warm jizz

This might sound weird, but sleep deprivation. I know it’s unhealthy, I only did it when young, but it was a rush to not sleep reading or gaming all night, then go to work/school. My record was 72 hours awake (Friday to Sunday) and while my head was wonky, and sometimes I would get very mild shakes, it was a high feeling still in control.

I’ve only felt a similar rush while fasting for several days, but for me it was much harder not eating compared to not sleeping.

Probably just picking up a cat and hugging, and when your cat just rubs against you.

And also flying drones and imagine you are a bird soaring through the sky.

FPV would be best, but even just those normal drones where you use for photography is still fun to just zoom around your neighborhood.

I once flew like 4km from a nearby park. I also once forgot about the tailwind then stuggle to fight against the find to fly back so I lost the drone because it eventually ran out of battery, felt like I trying to land a passenger plane that's running out of fuel lol

Halfway through a concert, when the exhaustion from the mosh pit hits my weak body and im just a flipper ball in the chaos

Getting challenged to a 1v1 in any video game and winning said 1v1.

Alternatively losing that same 1v1 can also be one of the most depressing ways to end an evening lol.

High ?

Reaching the cloud-base with a paraglider, especially in weak-days where you really need to fight to stay in the hair and fight for every meter of altitude

A long massage. Especially those rare times I've been able to get in mid-migraine or similar. My God. Might actually be better than sex. It's up there.

Also vigorous head scratches from someone with long fingernails are crazy good.

It's a tough call between them for me.

The smell of wet rocks or the smell of water straight from the garden hose. I can’t explain it.

Scoring a goal or winning a close sports game.

Rollercoasters.

Shikantaza meditation So smooth