With the low doses there should be minimal to no risk of mania provided it is not mixed with other mania-inducive substances. You've reminded me how excellent this stuff is, I'm going for round three now thanks to reading your posts. The first time I went hypermanic for a while, and basically developed an intense information-addiction which was really something to say the least. I'd be dropping 30mg/day and at some points 50-80mg and when I went to work my boss would tell me I was visibly jittery, it was clearly evident that I was on something, suffice to say. But the information addiction aspect of it was AWESOME.
In that space of time I learnt so much about the body and mind that it was unreal, and the irony of taking Noopept to study nootropics is quite something! I'd be on the web for a good 8 hours a day with like 50 tabs open soaking in all the data despite having zero short term memory, it all gets absorbed somehow into the great big ontology in the subconscious. But it did take a drag in other ways as spending 8 hours a day on the web with 50 tabs open would! The second time round I took it at 10mg a day. I felt that the first stupid-dosing primed my brain. That 10mg felt as good, or better than the 30mg/day. Though I do not know if simply dosing 10mg/day is helpful. I am, or more correctly, was, one of those idiots who thought "well, if 10mg is awesome then 30mg must be awesomererer" but it isn't like that suffice to say. What is *more* important and actually much more powerful is to use these subtances to nudge you into a brilliant peaceful ecstatic appreciation of Life, and that is the true Nootropic state understood by the great polymaths and autodidacts of yore. Drugs cannot substitute a calm, grateful and appreciative mind - that is the very state which is receptive to 'flashes of inspiration' or higher understanding all in all.
So maybe one day, you might only need 2mg of Noopept to have the bestest day of your life. Another day you might need 40mg. It all varies. We are fluid beings, in constant flux, constant change. Your neurochemistry today is nothing like what it was tomorrow, let alone what it will be like in a year's time. So adapt, always adapt. Stagnation is the opposite of a nootropic state.
It's awesome just having this knowledgebase to rest back on, as now if someone else is having issues I can point them in a general direction.
I will say a few things:
- Noopept will trip you out. It will trance you out if you are in a flow of life which supports trancing. For example, the 9-5 grind: this is a trance, and taking Noopept will reinforce it.
- It will reinforce addictions by making your mind work double speed, thus you will be twice as fast at rationalising your addictive behaviours! So be careful!
- Smoking tobacco and noopept, is fiendish, again the addiction, and also how tobacco influences your inner mind making it spin into an utter frenzy; when you smoke your mind automatically goes into THREAT DETECTED mode because you've huffed tar into your lungs and that's a foreign danger which must be eliminated, but oh, it's going nowhere therefore I shall now mentally spin around in circles for the rest of the day.
- It will boost your ego especially if you have the idea in some way shape or form that you are 'intelligent', be careful! High doses, anyway
- Balance, BALANCE, BALANCE - You will get the most out of Noopept by using it in a planned and BALANCED fashion. You do not need to take it every day, when you feel like it is enough. Remember, you want to be intelligent, not fall ploy to the Dunning-Kruger effect and feel intelligent but actually be stupid objectively. Taking noopept everyday will throw your body off balance, so space out the doses and cycle off every few weeks. Otherwise you will not really be using it as a nootropic but simply as a clever way to get high. If you feel like you are going into dreamland, then stop intake for a few days.
- Some nootropics antagonise noopept and render it useless. Other substances amplify noopept effects because they synergise. If I remember correctly it is an AcetylCholinesterase Inhibitor; so if you smoke marijuana don't be surprised to have very odd effects from noopept as that too inhibits AChE. Look up what other substances do the same. This is probably the main reason most people get issues, choline system fatigue/overload.
- In a strange way, Noopept is actually a very good substitute for the tobacco-marijuana habit. It delivers the best of both with none of the issues of either. Win win!
- Leaving all of this aside, Noopept is a one way ticket to serenity and ecstasy. I have never seen anything like it.
That's why I'm going for round three. What a timely thread!
Edited by BLimitless, 10 October 2013 - 11:51 AM.