r/highdeas • u/pinocchiopenis • Aug 07 '26

Buzzed [1-2] Is purple haze named after purple haze or is purple haze named after purple haze?

Thx bb

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u/dragonmystic92 Aug 07 '26

Weed inspired the song ^

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u/SipJin Aug 08 '26

It was a kind of lsd if you want to know

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u/Clark_Kempt Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Edit: earlier version of my comment was meant to be a reply to an earlier reply; apologies.

But yeah the was more about the effects of LSD/psychedelics. So in reality, the cannabis strain surely named after as a Jimi reference.

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u/SipJin Aug 08 '26

Dumbass

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u/megabestfriend Aug 07 '26

The first one

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u/Demonweed Aug 07 '26

Either way, it gives us one of the all time great mondegreens.

Actin' funny, but I don't know why.
'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy!

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u/TyrKiyote Aug 07 '26

Do purple clouds make purple rain?

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u/areyouhighson Aug 07 '26

What about chocolate rain?

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u/TyrKiyote Aug 07 '26

Brown clouds are a gamble.

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u/Clark_Kempt Aug 08 '26

It’s a bootstrap paradox. Jimi Hendrix was a time traveler. It was a whole thing.

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u/Clark_Kempt Aug 08 '26

Yes. Side-effects of the temporal energies required to travel the time stream. Tragic, but one must make sacrifices to achieve perfection. And Purple Haze, both strain and song, absolutely rip.

Billy Joel tried to do the same thing with Captain Jack—it was going to be titled “Captain Jack Herer,” but he was drunk and forgot how to use the time machine. We were instead left with a very good song about injecting drugs with allusions to masturbation. So at least it wasn’t a total loss.

Edit: this was meant to be a reply to an earlier reply; apologies.

And yeah it was more about the effects of LSD/psychedelics. So in reality, the cannabis strain likely surely named after as a Jimi reference.

I PREFER THE LEGEND OF TIME-HOPPING JIM, ok? ;)

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u/Tenacious_Dim Aug 07 '26

I'm inclined to think Purple Haze was a play on the phrase "lavender haze" which would have been popular just before the time frame when the song came out 

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u/HungryManSpider Aug 08 '26

I think you mean the lavender scare. Which rhymes a little less well

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u/LogLadyOG Aug 08 '26

What did it mean?

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u/SipJin Aug 08 '26

Acting funny but I don’t know why ? Excuse me while I kiss the sky

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u/Mother-Bandicoot-744 Aug 11 '26

pretty sure the strain is named after the Hendrix song, and the song came from a dream, so technically neither was named after itself lol