Comment · Tue, August 11, 2020 · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
Has taking nootropics changed the way you perceive reality?
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duhduhtss · 170 points
Has your nootropic use changed the way you perceive or react to reality? Has it changed your understanding of reality as a concept as well?
For example, I’ve noticed that I have been a lot more confident in general after taking Phenibut or phenylethylamine, even after I stopped taking it. I used to be insecure and think that people were making fun of me. I guess after trying those nootropics, I realized that there was more ways to perceive the current moment than what I was used to. So, instead of thinking that people bullied me I started thinking that they really like me. I realized that neither is more true than the other because I have no idea what anybody is actually thinking. So why not choose one thats more positive? After adopting that mindset on and off nootropics, more people began to like me and my charm amplified. It’s to the point where I’m secure and I don’t care about other people’s thoughts.
My point is that my use of nootropics have made me consider point of views that I wouldn’t have before and understand all of the little ways one can actually perceive reality.
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Dihexa_Throwaway · 2 points
Did the russians come up with so many nootropics because of public funding? Did they have a government funded nootropics program? Genuinely curious.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
Yeah, kind of. They treat medicine a lot different than the west. In the US it is all about novelty, patentability, and profitability. It was not like that in Russia. They tried all sorts of interesting things just to see how they would work. In the US you would never get that. You also would not get companies funding studies into things they already had a drug for. You see it a lot in the US. Companies actively buy up patents and squash research into drugs that might be better than what is out there, but would compete with their existing drugs. It happens every single day. It's more profitable to buy up the patents and kill the research than to let people know there is a more effective alternative to the drug they are already selling. Our whole system in the US is fucked. We need to overhaul our patent and intellectual property system, on top of our medical and research system. It will never happen, though. There's too much money in the way things are for that. Hell, look at the co-founder of Reddit Aaron Swartz. They drove him to suicide, or had him killed, just for trying to release scientific research that our tax dollars already paid for. That was just for publicly releasing a bunch of research papers. Imagine what they do if you really try to alter their power structure...