piracetam

The Salvia D. experiences and expiriments seem to be mostly on-hold for the last few months. I've had some very low-dose sessions, but have not made any attempt to "break through" or anything close, lately. Again, I think the important thing right now for me is to engage in life, engage in my job, and if there was anything at all escapist about SD usage (which isn't really an accurate characterization of my usage but may have an element of truth to it), then to discontinue usage for now and just learn better how to modulate my experience of life in this reality using techniques available to the body without drugging it too much. Techniques such as breathing (holotropic breathwork and breathing circles.) I mean to go back to that, and possibly, eventually, integrate some form of Salvia usage into breathing sessions. But until I'm doing the breathing, I'm hesitant to pick the salvia usage back up again. So for now I mostly just experiment with caffeine and alcohol, much to my dismay. They are equally dangerous drugs for me, and I should quit them both. Caffeine usage tends to ruin my sleep, and alcohol usage sometimes does, sometimes doesn't, depending on quantity and how late I drink. I really should exercise more; that would probably form enough of the needed substances such that I would not really need to be supplementing with ALCAR, for example. I take a gram or two or so of Piracetam each day, some ginseng (500mg yesterday), way too much coffee and/or tea and hot chocolate... and yesterday I was highly awake even at midnight or so, but woke at 5am. Now I'm dead tired and it's taken me almost 2 hours to begin to really wake up. Does not bode well for having a highly creative and productive day at work today, but perhaps I did enough creative thinking in the past couple of weeks that I can just dig in and start coding, start implementing my ideas of the past few weeks. I really would like to start impressing some people at work, and feel like that is necessary to keeping this job long-term, or even medium-term. Although I probably don't have to impress them "too" much; I think this is a fairly low-key job. But it's important to me to start building something I can be proud of. Piracetam? The title of my post... We'll see how that goes. I'm taking it with choline bitartrate. Both came in bulk, about a pound each, from a seller on Amazon.com. I'm not sure what the piracetam does, but I think I do notice a subtle and perhaps sometimes not-so-subtle improvement in the clarity of my thinking. I have no objective measurement for the change in cognition, if any, though. I have at times felt like the room looks brighter after taking it, like things are more "alive"-looking. So it's probably doing something, but again it's subtle and not really indistinguishable from a placebo-effect. I guess I'll have to try the noopept soon (1000X stronger than piracetam, they say.) Again I wish I had an objective measurement for the difference. I'm fairly certain they do not act as stimulants.