This is definitely not what you're asking about, but I'm gonna try to relate it somehow.. I just really wanted to share this story

I smoked weed for the first time, and apparently wrote a short story about an orphaned Indian girl on my friend's laptop, which he found the following morning. At the bottom of the story, scroll down two blank pages, I wrote (without spaces for reasons i will never know):

"What would it feel like to be a lake?"

Now here's the kicker. I hadn't found that line until a month later, the second time I got high, with the same friend. When I read that in the state I was in... If you've ever been high its needless to say I was practically comatose as my brain went 'sploosh!' And everything I perceived about everything changed drastically. Not for any particular reason, of course.

As a serious contribution: my character and my perception of everything changed when I read Sophie's World. It was my first run-in with philosophy and I was like 11 when I read it. Now I reread Plato and Camus in French when I'm bored. That book is mighty powerful.

Sidenote:feel free to use this tag but a warning to all: if you somehow manage to pull off a repost within this tag... I will facepalm a tunnel through my skull.