It took me months to get the best effects from piracetam. In fact shortly after starting I noticed that within a week or so the effects seemed to have declined, and was worried that it wasn't going to be useful over the long haul. How wrong I was...
Only after 6-8 months could I say that even during the most sleepiness-prone times of day was I not sleepy anymore. The process of rebuilding the brain takes at least a few months (from years of natural decay).
The reason why you notice the effects 'declining' is that you are already becoming used to your new state. The effects aren't going away - they're becoming permanent, thus not noticed. Totally the opposite from say, a stimulant, where the crash is noticeable and the next dose brings one 'back up'.
For me there was also a slump of apparent effect after a week of dosing from the start. But I didn't lose faith and continued the high doses! By the end of that month the more powerful long-term effects had totally taken over. I slept better and woke up clearer every day. I wouldn't notice so much if I missed a dose. If you can imagine the effect as a sine wave over time due to periodic dosing, the troughs (low areas) gradually moved higher until finally I didn't even notice them anymore unless I skipped many many doses.
Now I'm so healed that there is no noticeable effect because the effect has restructured my brain and thus doesn't leave quickly. Thus it is impossible to notice any difference because the dosing frequency is many times higher than the brain-destructuring frequency. I skipped for one month and it took two weeks to return to my former self [about 4-5 months ago]. Thus I always stay saturated now, even at night.
A year later, the investment has paid off bigtime! Now I'm never tired, and I almost always go to bed at insane hours (like dawn is starting hours). It is worth making this investment. I am much more alive in the ways that truly matter now than last year. Being conscious and truly awake all the time is amazing, and for only $2 per day [costs soon to be reduced with bulkier bulk ordering].
Eggs and choline are good, but not necessary. I had brief mild headaches when I started, so I ate a few dozen eggs yolks over a month. The headache went away less than an hour after eating first batch of yolks raw, but it never returned, even after I quit the eggs due to their usual gas-producing effect.
Thus I conclude that when piracetam is first started, it causes lots of new receptor growth and thus a need for more choline, which sometimes causes a mild headache. However, after this initial phase the choline can be reduced or eliminated. Even without extra choline the initial growth phase would just take longer and end eventually anyway, though of course it is desireable to end it quickly if headaches are present.
As for the secret ingredients, the dreams were an unanticipated side-effect of adding a tiny dose of DXM to prevent some of the bad effects of cannabis before bed. This post
microDose DXM & Cannabis details the first experiment. The
next post details how I discovered the dreaming side-effect.
The real key is the small dose of DXM before bed. Piracetam made my dreaming better but what brought the hyperreality was the DXM.
My explanation is that when taken before bed, the small DXM dose has its nice effects (bouncy, relaxed, etc.) when combined with cannabis. However, dreaming happens much later - near morning. The piracetam is excreted slower during sleep, so it is still effective even then. Piracetam enhances dream recall especially and contributes to high-quality sleep in various ways. However, by the early morning dreaming-hours, DXM's NMDA activity has mostly withdrawn leaving a flood of PCP1 receptor activity. This provides a slight psychosis which is too small to be observed but exerts a strong effect during dreaming. Its effect is to saturize, plasticize and lucidize the dreaming phase.
Taking the 'normal' trip-level DXM dose causes such upheaval and damage that it actually impairs dreaming, and can do so for years after a large-dose trip - as I can attest to. However, the microdose is opposite in this respect and in other ways too - it provides increased intelligence, energy metabolism, verbality, and sharpness the next day when combined with piracetam.
The entire case is one of complex and highly leveraged synergism which acts consistently and with little or no tolerance to create a unique evening and dreaming environment.
It's been incredibly fun and I'm still having amazing dreams even last nite. The floating feeling while watching anime before bed decreased to about half of what it was after a month, but everything is levelled off and no further decrease of effect has been noted thus far.
PS. Do not mix even a microdose of DXM with aniracetam or anything that hypersensitizes NMDA receptors anytime in the next 48 hours. The day after a microdose of DXM, NMDA and possibly PCP1 receptors will be taking a bit more endogeneous stimulation due to upregulation of production/release. That isn't a problem itself but if NMDA receptors are made even more sensitive by certain nootropics (piracetam does NOT effect them in this case), then certain dysphoric sensations will be noted. Like dizziness, strangeness of moving objects, a hint of strange thinking, etc. It's not toxic but the effect is unpleasant.
Otherwise microdose DXM <=30mg per day does not interfere with anything else and is not even noticeable by itself [without the cannabis as main-agent].
Of course, the DXM must be free of crap [ASA, acetaminophen, anti-histamines {NO CORICIDEN}] and
taken 45 minutes before the cannabis to allow for absorption.
Edited by Isochroma, 26 July 2009 - 01:17 AM.
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