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> “Not fuzzy-headed,” he says, “but crisp. A crisp softness to it.” Soon he was experiencing a level of concentration he’d never imagined. “My senses sort of sh
by lake99 14y ago
> “Not fuzzy-headed,” he says, “but crisp. A crisp softness to it.” Soon he was experiencing a level of concentration he’d never imagined. “My senses sort of shifted to the visual, and my auditory sense went down. Sounds didn’t even register. It was like walking around on a winter day when it just snowed. It was very easy to stay visually focused.”
Placebo effect? I understand that drugs have slightly different effects on each person, but I have never felt any of that stuff.
I experimented with 100mg tablets of Modafinil for a few years because I can't concentrate. It did nothing for my concentration, nothing I could discern, at any rate. Modafinil did help to get rid of my sleepiness: if the task/meetings/lectures dragged a bit, I'd actually nod off. Modafinil fixed that.
Write-ups such as this one on nymag make Modafinil sound like something to trip on. Very misleading.
> At the very least, doctors have warned that modafinil can bring about sleep deprivation
I call BS.
- argonaut 14y agoI completely disagree. 1. The effect is extremely noticeable, as noticeable as a headache is (whatever the opposite of a headache would be). 2. I did read a study which found evidence that a particular genotype affects whether someone finds modafinil effective. I happen to have that genotype correlated with modafinil effectiveness.
- lake99 14y agoWhat dosage have you tried? I have always been very careful to not abuse it. So, I'd take just 100mg as soon as I woke up. Perhaps upping my dosage will bring out those effects.
- argonaut 14y ago200mg. Again, there was a study that showed that people with a certain genotype did not feel the effects of modafinil, so that might apply to you.