It’s all to affect your consciousness—whether by moving about in physical space to change the inputs available to your senses; or closing your eyes and plugging your ears and nose to ignore the outside and focus on what goes on silently inside; or taking drugs to create something that otherwise wouldn’t be there or to affect the way your senses perceive.

If you’re not satisfied with the consciousness that exists just laying in bed in your apartment so you get up and go for a walk (your consciousness takes in the stretching of your muscles) and you get to the park and take in the greenery that surrounds the trail (your nose smells the damp November leaves and you even bend down to let your fingertips feel them)—you’ve chosen how to affect your consciousness with all the physical possibilities available to you.

Or, take the same situation where you’re alone in your apartment and not enjoying it, you could also escape it by departing mentally while remaining there physically, if you were to crawl off your bed and sit into meditation on the floor. Focus on your breath, forget the feeling of lethargy, forget everything else your senses are telling you. Go to a memory if you’d like, go to a created fantasy world, or go nowhere, to nothingness.

Still another option, in the apartment, you could crawl out of bed and take the bong off the counter and, without having to do much work yourself, let drugs artificially take you somewhere else.