TribeTokes asked r/trees one question: what’s ONE thing you literally cannot do unless you’re high? The answers ranged from laundry to Costco to “keep my bones where they belong.” Nobody expected the highest-voted response.
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Source: r/trees: “What’s ONE thing you literally cannot do unless you’re high?” posted by TribeTokes , 37 upvotes, 140 comments
The Thread at a Glance
The question was deliberately absurd: not “what does cannabis help you with” but “what can you literally NOT DO unless you’re high.” An invitation for honesty, for humour, or , as it turned out , for both at the same time. In 140 comments, r/trees delivered all of the above.
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A few patterns emerged quickly. Chores appeared more than anything creative or profound. “Tolerate other people” showed up in at least six different forms. And one commenter’s single-word answer about existence collected four upvotes and zero elaboration.
The Answer Nobody Saw Coming
The thread had 37 upvotes. The top comment had 248. That gap tells you something about how this community responds to honesty delivered without decoration.
The top-voted answer in the thread was not about chores, gaming, or getting in the zone. It was a statement about anxiety. The community pushed it to 248 upvotes and then the replies immediately complicated it, with u/Flaky_Economist (21 upvotes) adding the context the thread needed:
“Honestly, for some people weed just isn’t for them. I have many friends who can’t use weed at all because it gives them anxiety and it’s not about the strain or anything like that. It’s just some people don’t react well with it.”
21 upvotes
That framing matters. A question about what you “cannot do unless you’re high” produced a top answer from someone for whom it works in a specific way, and an immediate reply from someone pointing out that it actively doesn’t work for a significant number of people. Both things are true and both got upvoted. That’s r/trees doing what r/trees does.
A note on this thread
The top-voted comment in this thread is about anxiety relief. TribeTokes makes no health claims based on this. The community’s personal experiences vary enormously, as u/Flaky_Economist made clear: for some people cannabis increases anxiety rather than reducing it. Individual responses depend on the person, the product, the dose, and the setting.
Laundry, Lawn Mowing, and Costco
Below the top comment, the thread settled into its true character. The most common answers were not spiritual. They were not creative. They were deeply, specifically domestic.
The crying face is doing a lot of work in that answer. Not because laundry is hard, but because the specificity is so precise. Not “chores.” Folding. And then putting away. Those are two separate tasks and they are both, apparently, intolerable sober.
Costco deserves its own moment. The warehouse, the lighting, the samples, the people trying to get past you with a cart the size of a small yacht. If there is a more accurate description of what getting in the zone is for, it has not been submitted to this thread.
u/Au2288 was also the only person in the thread who submitted two answers, and both of them are correct.
People. Just… People.
The social tolerance cluster was the second most common theme in the thread, behind chores and slightly ahead of gaming. Multiple commenters described some version of “tolerate other humans” as the thing cannabis makes possible.
“Deal with idiots in public. It’s really at that point for me. The thought of interacting with booger eating morons fills me with dread. Pot helps.”
u/Accidental_Ballyhoo, r/trees
1 upvote
“Booger eating morons” is a phrase that deserved more upvotes. The sentiment, however, is one of the most common things in this thread and in the wider r/trees community. People are the dominant reason the community reaches for cannabis on a Tuesday.
The Work-Life Split
“Live my normal life outside of work. I never smoke before work, and I can stay busy the whole time. As soon as I get out, it doesn’t matter what I have planned, I gotta smoke.”
2 upvotes
u/schaeen2000’s answer about step kids is either the most honest or the most chaotic parenting confession in this thread, and it is submitted with zero further context.
Gaming, Bikes, and Getting in the Zone
A smaller but distinct cluster of answers was about performance and flow state: the feeling of being locked into an activity with unusual focus and ease. The best account of this came from u/Laserdollarz (3 upvotes):
“One time I rode my bike without smoking first and I was very confused why I was sucking wind so hard. If I smoke and ride, I get in the zone and suddenly I’m 20 miles away.”
3 upvotes
The “suddenly I’m 20 miles away” construction is doing real work there. Time compression and flow state are something a number of community members describe, usually in the context of physical activity or gaming.
The football exchange
u/Ok-Bet-2369 (5 upvotes)
“Used to absolutely lock in on soccer/football when a certain level of stoned, quite funny”
TribeTokes OP (6 upvotes)
“That locked in mode is next level”
Gaming
“Play video games. Last time I was sober gaming was when I was 15.”
1 upvote
Creativity
“Weed really gets my creative juices flowing and allows me to create without worrying about getting it wrong.”
1 upvote
Deadlines
“End of the year I just got absolutely blasted and finished all the mandatory projects in like one week.”
2 upvotes
The zone, as described by r/trees: somewhere between the laundry and 20 miles on a bike.
Exist. Just Simply Exist.
The most Reddit thing about this thread is that “Exist.” appears three times from three different users, each with a different energy. u/EsotericCodename (4 upvotes) offered it as a period-terminated declaration. u/Joe_Buck21 offered “exist:)” with a smiley face, which is different. u/yeah_yeah_therabbit offered it with 2 upvotes and nothing else.
All three are correct and none of them are wrong.
The breathe exchange
u/ImaRaginCajun (2 upvotes)
“Breathe”
TribeTokes OP (1 upvote)
“Just breathe”
Music
“I cant think of anything, now the reverse is true for many things. I just love how it makes music and sex better.”
2 upvotes
“Keep my bones where they belong” is the most mysterious answer in the thread and has received no follow-up questions, which is its own kind of answer. “Sober up” is a paradox wrapped in a 2-upvote comment and deserves a moment of quiet appreciation.
The Honest Counterpoint
Amongst all the answers about what cannabis makes possible, u/KenUsimi submitted the most grounded response in the thread:
“Honestly? Nothing. Being high helps with unpleasant tasks, but I try not to require marijuana for anything.”
1 upvote
One upvote. Which is either a sign that the r/trees community did not find this useful or that they found it too accurate to reward. That distinction between “makes easier” and “cannot do without” is one the wider community returns to frequently, and it is worth sitting with before you answer the original question for yourself.
Cannabis use patterns and dependency are individual. The community in this thread describes a wide range: from “genuinely cannot fold laundry without it” to “I try not to require it for anything.” Neither is a clinical statement. If you have concerns about your relationship with cannabis use, speaking with a healthcare provider is a reasonable step.
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Frequently Asked Questions
According to 140 r/trees community members responding to a TribeTokes thread, the most common answers are mundane tasks like laundry, chores, and mowing the lawn. Social situations came up nearly as often, with multiple people describing cannabis as what makes dealing with the general public, extended family, or large retail environments tolerable. Gaming and flow-state activities like cycling were another cluster. Several people gave single-word answers: “Exist,” “Breathe,” “Wake up.” The range tells you more than any individual answer. These are personal accounts shared publicly in a cannabis forum, not clinical statements, and individual experiences with cannabis vary enormously. The question was designed to be funny, and many of the answers were. But the range of what the community described, from laundry to existence itself, gives the thread more texture than a simple listicle would.
Multiple r/trees community members described cannabis as making repetitive or unpleasant tasks more tolerable. Laundry, lawn mowing, doing the dishes, and Costco all appeared in the TribeTokes thread as things that are difficult or unpleasant sober and more manageable high. The community does not describe cannabis as making these tasks easier in a technical sense, but as changing their emotional texture enough to get through them. u/Zombie_Zeke described it as applying to folding specifically, with a crying emoji for emphasis. Whether this applies to any individual depends on how they respond to cannabis, which varies considerably. The community picture is of cannabis changing the emotional register of tasks rather than making them objectively easier, which is a different claim and a more honest one. Several people submitted multiple answers, suggesting the list extends well beyond laundry.
Some r/trees community members describe cannabis as enabling a flow state, particularly for physical or creative activities. u/Laserdollarz described getting on a bike sober, struggling, and then describing getting in the zone on a smoke-and-ride as “suddenly I’m 20 miles away.” u/uhohspaghettisos described cannabis as allowing them to create without worrying about getting it wrong. u/Ok-Bet-2369 described locking in on football at a certain level of high. These are personal observations, not claims that cannabis universally improves creative or athletic output. The community is consistent on one point: dose matters considerably, and what works at one amount may not work at another. u/uhohspaghettisos was careful to note they can create sober too, which is the honest version of what most of these answers are describing: not impossibility, but a change in quality or ease that matters to that person.
Tolerating other people was one of the most common themes in the TribeTokes r/trees thread. Answers ranged from “deal with the general public” to “dealing with my extended family” to “enjoy spending time with my step kids” to a detailed account of not being able to face booger eating morons without cannabis. The community framing is consistently about lowering friction with other humans rather than about enhancing social performance. This is a personal pattern many community members describe, not a clinical finding. Cannabis affects social anxiety differently in different people, and for some it increases rather than reduces anxiety in social situations. The thread acknowledges this without trying to resolve it, which is the community being more accurate than a one-sided account would be.
The TribeTokes r/trees thread produced a wide range of answers to this question. Chores and mundane tasks were the most common. Social situations with challenging people came second. Creative and physical flow states came third. u/eberkain described music and sex as better without being able to think of anything they literally cannot do sober. The community’s implicit picture is of cannabis as something that changes the quality of ordinary experience rather than enabling specific activities that are objectively impossible otherwise. Several community members, including u/KenUsimi, explicitly noted that cannabis helps but that they try not to require it for anything specifically. The best use of the thread is as a picture of individual variation, not as a claim about what cannabis will do for any particular person.
Gaming came up in the TribeTokes thread as one of the activities community members describe as better or more immersive when high. u/DontCallMeShoeless noted they have not gamed sober since they were 15. The broader thread picture is consistent with what cannabis communities generally describe: a sense of heightened engagement with certain activities, particularly repetitive or immersive ones. Whether this improves gaming performance or simply changes how it feels is a different question the community does not address directly. Individual responses vary, and some people find cannabis increases distraction rather than focus when gaming. The thread does not distinguish between these outcomes, which is typical of community accounts. The most useful data point is that gaming appeared multiple times as an answer, which suggests it is a genuine pattern for a subset of the community rather than an outlier response.
The TribeTokes r/trees thread covers a broad slice of everyday life: work transitions, household tasks, social interactions, physical exercise, creative projects, and getting through large retail environments. The pattern across most answers is not about cannabis enabling something impossible sober but about changing the experience enough to make it more tolerable or more enjoyable. u/A_Leafy described a clear structure: never before work, always after. u/KenUsimi described trying not to require it for anything. Both answers reflect the same underlying point from different angles: the relationship between cannabis and everyday activities is something people navigate individually, not a fixed set of effects that applies universally. The thread is more useful as a portrait of how a specific community uses cannabis in daily life than as a guide to what cannabis will do for any individual reader.
Flow state refers to a condition of full absorption in an activity with reduced self-consciousness and heightened performance, first described by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Several r/trees community members in the TribeTokes thread describe something that matches this in functional terms: u/Laserdollarz on the bike, u/Ok-Bet-2369 locking in on football, u/Old_School_7546 finishing a semester of projects in a week while blasted. The community does not use the term flow state directly, but the description of losing track of time and distance while engaged in an activity is consistent with what the research describes. Whether cannabis reliably produces this, or produces it for any specific individual, is not something the community establishes. These are individual accounts from regular cannabis users describing their own experience, which is both their value and their limitation as evidence.
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