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Re:My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain? by breck on Thursday May 15, 2008 @03:07PM (#190782)
I took it for about 15 days last year when I was having trouble staying awake and was definitely more relaxed and productive. I think that was a result of just having a lot more time in the day.

The first few days I only slept about 1-3 hours per night. I would lie in bed for 30 minutes then get really bored and so I'd read, work, or clean our apartment. Since I had 20 hours a day, I never felt pressed for time and was pretty relaxed. It's pretty cool to have time to do laundry, clean, run errands, spend hours hanging out, read a book or two, exercise, and work all in one day.

I remember being scared the first night when for over 40 hours not only had I not slept, i wasn't even tired.

However, over time the effects wore off and I returned to sleeping 6 hours or so a night. Still less than normal, but at that point the (risk of) side effects outweighed the extra two hours of time per day.

Re:My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain? by alaskamiller on Thursday May 15, 2008 @04:03PM (#190862)
Try humping multiple kilometers through mountain ranges on provigil on a 3-day training mission. It was one of the worst things I've had to do. Being tired and being in a state of living death because of drugs are bad. Drugs are bad, kids, mmmmkay?
Re:My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain? by tdavis on Thursday May 15, 2008 @08:40PM (#191250)
I've done this not on drugs and the state of living death still comes on eventually during the long (20+ K) marches. Man was not meant to march dozens of miles with 80+ lbs on his back.

Lean forward... that always helps me ;)

Re:My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain? by breck on Thursday May 15, 2008 @06:32PM (#191110)
Not sure what your point is. But that training mission sounds many times harder than anything physical I've accomplished, so I'm impressed by that.
Re:My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain? by ivankirigin on Thursday May 15, 2008 @04:22PM (#190892)
Was this when you were in the military? How common are such stimulants if you're not a pilot?