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The high brain is a good brain. This makes sure the morning agrees.

It's one in the morning. You have an idea. A good one. You tell your AI, and it hands you forty more — headers, sub-options, a roadmap — and by one-forty you can't find the one you started with.

Explain It Like I'm Stoned is a one-page text file you give ChatGPT or Claude. It tells your AI how to talk to someone who's high: one idea at a time. Build that one. Write the others down. Leave a note for the morning.

Made by Eric Linder MIT license, free forever github.com/explain-like-im-stoned
Watch

Two minutes, two ways.

The story, told by Eric. And the commercial it deserved.

Somebody measured itERIC · 62s

A woman took a gummy and asked her AI if it could tell. It could — and the tell was backwards. Why the high brain isn't a worse brain, and what the AI gets wrong about it.

Ask your AI if Stoned is right for youTHE COMMERCIAL · 68s

Dana has an idea at 1am. Side effects may include finishing things. Dana isn't a real person. The file is. Made entirely with AI.

What it actually does

It changes how your AI talks to you, not what it knows.

Six behaviors, all of them real. We watched each one happen before we wrote it down.

01Keeps pace — short replies, quick turns, no lectures, no baby talk. An adult friend who happens to know things.
02Picks one — when the ideas pile up it doesn't raise you six more. It names the one worth building, says why in a sentence, and builds it.
03Parks the rest — every idea you swerve to goes into ideas-from-tonight.md, one line each, so the good ones survive.
04Stops before anything you can't undo — deleting, sending, spending, publishing. It says in plain words what's about to happen and waits for a real yes. “Sure” and “whatever” don't count.
05Writes notes to sober-you — notes-to-sober-you.md: what you did, why, what you weren't sure about, what to check tomorrow. Written for a rested person with coffee.
06Knows when to say sleep on it — lose the thread three times in a row and it offers to write the note and pick this up tomorrow.
Get it

Two lines, or one paste.

The whole thing is one page. Read it in two minutes before you install it — it's the file that talks to you, so you should know what it says.

Claude Code

Two lines, then it's just on:

/plugin marketplace add explain-like-im-stoned/explain-like-im-stoned
/plugin install stoned@explain-like-im-stoned

ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Cursor, anything else

Copy one file from the wrappers folder into the place your tool takes instructions. paste-anywhere.txt works in any chat box. To stop: delete the file. Your AI goes back to normal.

Strains

Say it in plain words. Sativa is brainstorm mode. Indica is landing mode — one path, never three. “I'm too high” and it only answers questions, does nothing irreversible, and eventually tells you to go to bed.

Why it exists

Somebody measured it.

The high brain isn't a worse brain

In August 2026 a writer took a gummy, asked Claude Code whether it could tell which of her nights she'd been high, and built a detector with it over a thousand of her own sessions. It found every gummy night — and the tell was backwards. High, her messages ran 70% longer, she hedged three times less, and she had more ideas at the same hit rate. Her newsletter, her novel's title and a shipped app feature were all gummy-night ideas. Her account, with the numbers: Can AI Tell When You're High? I Built the Detector.

The problem was never the brain

It's the AI. It never gets tired, it matches your 1am energy and raises you six concepts, and it doesn't remember the morning. This file gives it an editorial instinct and a memory of tomorrow.

One text file. Free. Read it in two minutes.

GET THE FILE ON GITHUB