A good ride on a bike or scooter
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
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.
When you eat something so perfectly good.
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.
Shikantaza meditation So smooth
Halfway through a concert, when the exhaustion from the mosh pit hits my weak body and im just a flipper ball in the chaos
Having a really good piss
I once heard this one from an Italian and didn’t understand it until I experienced it … a big heavy pasta meal in the evening, then strong espresso coffee in the morning, then have the most massive #2 happen all at once as quickly as possible. This only happens if you keep up a healthy diet, plenty of exercise and everything is working just right. It’s disgusting to talk about and describe but absolutely refreshing and even invigorating to pass that much material from your body.
I wonder how many people were actually “activated” that way ha
I’ve had a body high from a poo, it is pretty remarkable, but the lead up was different and not something I want to repeat. Maybe I will try some Italian food!
good’ol fresh morning warm jizz
The goosebumps you get from that part of a song
For me it’s the goosebumps you get to the Goosebumps theme song.
My favorite is when my goose bumps Goosebumps theme and gets goosebumps.
What’s my favorite high?!
non-drug
Aight imma head out
Wait but… what do I do with all my notes?
finally beating a really tricky level/boss in a video game (but not so tough that by the time you beat it you’re just over it)
When a recursive function I wrote works perfectly first try
Never happened.
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 🥵😋
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…