neurohack » alcohol http://neurohack.tesser.org record of a polyphaser Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Drugs and other fun substances: alcohol http://neurohack.tesser.org/2009/07/drugs-and-other-fun-substances-alcohol/ http://neurohack.tesser.org/2009/07/drugs-and-other-fun-substances-alcohol/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:10:22 +0000 Sharif Olorin http://neurohack.tesser.org/?p=28 I’ve been avoiding drugs (including alcohol and caffeine) for the most part during my adaption. Over the next few days I’m going to see how they mix with napping. Nothing illegal, but the major ones should be covered.

First is alcohol.

What I tried:

  1. single shot of whisky
  2. two glasses of wine (maybe 2.5-3 standard drinks)
  3. four shots of gin

Results:

  1. fine, nothing happened, next nap went as planned.
  2. felt fine (not even tipsy) before I napped, but took forever to get up and after the nap itself I was rather out of it for about half an hour afterwards.
  3. bad idea. Felt that the alcohol was there, though I wasn’t really intoxicated, before I napped, but waking up was hellish – I overslept (fortunately only about seven minutes before I dragged myself out of bed), and then was out of it for about ninety minutes.

Regarding ‘out-of-it’-ness, I’m referring to sluggishness, reduced mental clarity and wanting sleep.

So, looks like I’m not getting drunk anytime soon. I’m not planning to try any larger quantities of alcohol while still on this pattern – the results seem pretty clear. 1-2 drinks I can handle fine with no problems, but more than that and it interferes with napping.

My friend Daniel found something similar with Uberman.

Next will be my caffeine writeup.

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