Tuesday, October 28, 2025

sleeplog - 1o2825

Six, going on seven hours of sleep.  Six uninterrupted.

Have begun a new regimen of tiny pills & tea.  It's testing nootropics time for this aging punk.

It's probably wholly psychological but I noted a weird burst of near-psychedelic Clarity some twenty minutes after consuming my first cup of tea.  The effect was so pronounced I had to double check that the mushrooms aren't the kind I overdosed in '99.  But no:  lion's mane has been very thoroughly checked out and it does not make you trip.  Purely psychological, some weird placebo thing.  Dunno.

There's a chance--  not impossible  --that what I experienced was a brief interaction between the ditchweed I smoke and the nootropic; but my liver is not a lab, and my gut instincts are not the most forthcoming when it involves Reasoned Deduction.  I doubt the interaction thesis, not least because the potsmoke was an hour and a half before the tea.  Weed is something my body is quite accustomed to & unless there's a specific visual indicator there's probably not anything psychedelic happening.  If those sectors of my brain are firing off, an optical effect overlays my vision and I perceive a "swirling" of green & magenta.  This optic was not present.  The sensation of preternatural Clarity waned after ten minutes.

I don't have a better description for the feeling.  It was a feeling: and that feeling wasn't familiar.  It seemed like a perceptual shift.  But I didn't perceive anything in particular, or unusual, beyond Clarity.

All that's certain is I slept deeply & well.

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