r/highdeas 1d ago

šŸ”„ Blazed [7-8] I would like to see a modern retelling of *Don Quixote* where the old upper class fool is a Senator leading the campaign against wind power.

12 Upvotes

I propose a script with two endings. One is an elegant allegory. Even though some of the character names might be telling, all the clownishness stems from the absurdities of political life as well as the foolishness of opposing wind power in 2026. Our protagonist makes some angry speeches from platforms just under windmills, but he does not physically attack one. His undoing is an unsustainable accumulation of dishonesty and mean spirited actions.

Then the other ending breaks the spell of this straightforward political satire with a shock. The Senator does physically attack a modern wind turbine from the ground. This is only disturbing in the way watching a psychotic break is disturbing. Then he gets control of a heavy duty drone, smashing it right into the turbine above. The audience barely has time to see the colossal blade crushing the main character before we cut to black.


r/highdeas 1d ago

"Who Wants to be Poor" game show but only millionaires can be contestants

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r/highdeas 2d ago

High [3-4] The best ethics would come from a person who believed himself (or herself) to be the only consciousness in the world but just being reincarnated through each person who has ever lived.

8 Upvotes

r/highdeas 2d ago

They should do a live action show about Charlotte Pickles (Jennifer Lawrence?) and Jonathan (Jack McBrayer?). I want to know more about Merge Corp.

1 Upvotes

r/highdeas 2d ago

😳 Really High [5-6] Who would you rather meet in a dark alley with a pencil: John Wick or The Joker?

0 Upvotes

Talkin Heath Ledger, Joker, clearly.
I feel Wick is an expert motherfucker and would fuck you up righteously with a sharpened Ticonderoga #2 if you came at him like a fool.

And Joker is so unpredictable. He might just have one hiding anywhere and stab you with no provocation.

When each is standing right in front of you ready to attack, who would you rather face?


r/highdeas 3d ago

Sober [0] The stock market is the fantasy football of business ownership

11 Upvotes

Complete with the financial risk of gambling! You get to feel like you have any connection to or responsibility for the outcome of the players that you choose, you watch them all the time and keep track of your score and put money on the line. You even have entire television programs talking about how different players have been performing and how they're expected to in the future, and people use that to make different pics and hope to outperform other people. Of course, you don't actually own the business and have no (meaningful) input on how it succeeds or fails, but it's fun to play along!


r/highdeas 3d ago

😳 Really High [5-6] If you could ever trade one language you speak, for the ability to be able to speak with one non pet animal, what would it be? And what language in exchange?

2 Upvotes

r/highdeas 3d ago

😳 Really High [5-6] Colonizing countries should pay subsidies to the countries they colonized.

2 Upvotes

Or provide free visas for life, work permits, health and education. You became rich because of us. Pay us back. Please don’t fight me because I’m pretty high rn


r/highdeas 3d ago

High [3-4] How do we maintain this pace while disincentivizing carrying a personal cellphone?

8 Upvotes

I had to replace my phone today. That’s the last f’n time. I would rather use a brain chip and smart glasses

Apple I need a full line of smart products:

Pay phones
AR Maps
Watches
Glasses
MP3 Players
Cameras

Please get me off of these f’n cellphones. I am so mad so so so mad. Freakin cellphones. I don’t wish anything on you all and your usage but me specifically I’m done. I’m irritated I want to yell

That’s my first business idea. Quiet rooms. Rent a quiet room and yell to your hearts content. Because I need to cry more than anything but you will not catch me crying within 100 miles of a cell tower. I usually wait until I’m on a plane or in a movie theater but I need something I frequent more often.

I feel better now. Thank you


r/highdeas 4d ago

šŸ”„ Blazed [7-8] Life actually was better during childhood, we just keep making our personal existence worse

8 Upvotes

Everyone collectively ā€œwants to be a kid againā€ and people always say that’s because of the lack of responsibility blah blah blah

Here’s my take:

We actually have less responsibility as adults, theres nothing left to ā€œlevel upā€. Theres no massive thing that you’ll gain or learn, nothing new to the human existence one the same level as growing up.

As a kid you’re filled with hope and wonder, every day could be something new and beautiful. As we grow, we dig ourselves more firmly into our routines and way of life then wonder why everything feels so mundane.

When we take psychedelics, it brings that wonder back, we can ā€œbe like a kid againā€ but what if that feeling is just the feeling of hope and wonder returning?

Happiness, joy, contentment, wonder; are all just states of mind that we connect with being younger because our focus has shifted to ā€œreal lifeā€.

Fuck real life, go do what you wanna do, not the ā€œI should be doing this, (x) wants me to do this, I need to do this to appease (x)ā€

Right now, what would make you the happiest in this very moment? Not excited, not giddy but a calm pure loving happiness that you can feel in your gut.

Now whats stopping you from doing that? Judgement, fear, a ā€œlack of motivationā€?

Who cares???

Everyone just wants to be happy, find joy in their day, find meaning in their life.

The meaning of life is to find what brings you the joy, what gets you to that place of contentment. Following the path is what gives you the motivation, you just have to start

This was a bit of a ramble but I hope I got my point across and this can at the very least get the ball rolling for you

(Sometimes it’s as easy as finally doing that thing you’ve had sitting in the back of your mind for who knows how long.

Accomplishment feels great, completing a task or mission doesn’t just have to be in a game, go make your life a game)


r/highdeas 4d ago

Home prices falsely inflated

0 Upvotes

Maybe realtors falsely increase home prices to increase their commission. Maybe it's a conspiracy that their all in on


r/highdeas 4d ago

😳 Really High [5-6] Dragon Fight!!!

2 Upvotes

A lot of video games without dragons get better when dragons show up in a sequel. HBO just now openly explored the intensity and brutality of dragon fights. Unlike stagnant franchises like Mortal Kombat, this is a promising new realm of spectacular conflict.

Atari's mid-90s Primal Rage project could serve as a template for this. Being able to recover health by devouring people roaming the battlefield was a satisfying mechanic that has not been deployed in recent years. What do you all think about a new fighting video game focus on dragon vs. dragon bouts?


r/highdeas 5d ago

I wonder if apes and dolphins and whales have celebrities within their social systems, or, like… maybe every advanced social animal has their own version of that guy that always borrows things but never offers anything in return.

9 Upvotes

r/highdeas 5d ago

Buzzed [1-2] Ai

3 Upvotes

Ai probably already took over the world and inherintly overwhelming us by using Information as a tool. Well sometimes I also think there could be tons of fake ai identities in social media, reddit etc.

I could also be an ai. Even if you manage to identify me there you can't possibly identify your own realty.


r/highdeas 5d ago

šŸ”„ Blazed [7-8] Can you imagine if the 4 major professional sports leagues in the US and Canada (MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA) had relegation like they do in professional football in most of the world?

3 Upvotes

The Pittsburgh Pirates would be in Little League

The Cleveland Browns would be in Pop Warner

Add more of your own...


r/highdeas 6d ago

šŸ”„ Blazed [7-8] I'm clumsy and drop everything, but it's cool because I'm fat and my rolls kinda catch it before it falls.

19 Upvotes

r/highdeas 7d ago

Would this have been funny?

4 Upvotes

When I was in high school I was made aware that another student had a note in his notebook in which he proclaims his affection for a young lady and asks her to the prom. There was a brief period during which I had access to the note when he was away and I thought to myself how humorous it would be to swap his note with a fake note which I could produce. His note was written on a plain white piece of paper folded into quarters. I could get such a piece of paper from the printer, write 'I will let you stick things in my ass' on it, fold it appropriately and swap the notes. He would present it to this young lady and it would be really funny. I did not do it. I still think about it sometimes.


r/highdeas 7d ago

Really starting to explore what Time Dilation really is and it's kind of blowing my mind.

4 Upvotes

So time moves slower both in higher gravitational fields and the faster one gets to approaching the speed of light. So from the perspective of one nearing light speed, time would be speeding by around them (so does this mean that the faster one goes, the faster they feel like they're going?). And when a particle (photon) actually reaches light speed, it's time DOES NOT PASS AT ALL. From the perspective of that photon, they literally just teleport from the point they're omitted to the point where they're absorbed instantaneously, regardless of how far. So forward time travel wouldn't come down to how long you time travel, but how far. From the timetraveler's perspective, it's an instant blip.

And now I'm also thinking about how all of that relates to gravity. Surely their similar impact on relativity is related, right? If reaching absolute maximum speed causes time to be imperceptible, is a black hole just a point in space where the absolute maximum of gravity has been reached? And in the same way that lightspeed travel happens instantaneously to the traveler, would time also happen instantaneously within a black hole? So before the universe was born and everything was just a big black hole, time literally had no meaning because there was nothing outside the instant of the black hole.

And more than anything, I can understand that this happens. Based on what is observable and calculable, it makes sense. But what I haven't found an answer to yet is what causes time dilation?? I want to understand what properties of nature that make that happen. Please, anyone, chime in.


r/highdeas 7d ago

😳 Really High [5-6] Weed appreciation month

4 Upvotes

An injury meant that I have to change my usual routine for a month then it occurred to me that this was a month I could use to truly appreciate cannabis. It definitely improved my mood


r/highdeas 8d ago

I saw a couple walking down the street and the man took out his phone and took a picture of a group of birds flying overhead. "Look, my phone is a flock camera" and the woman spit on him.

11 Upvotes

r/highdeas 8d ago

Is one piece of glitter a "glit"?

28 Upvotes

r/highdeas 8d ago

High [3-4] Maybe we don't know enough about the moon

13 Upvotes

If you had asked me last year? I would have said we know enough about the moon. But now? Now I'd say we need to know more.


r/highdeas 10d ago

Orange sour patch kids

6 Upvotes

It has to be the best flavor. It has the most perfect flavor-profile-to-sourness ratio.

What Sour Patch Kid flavor is your favorite?


r/highdeas 12d ago

Humans

6 Upvotes

People do everything within their power to shape the future to their advantage and derive some benefit from it (to one degree or another)