I had it one time, but it was with a friend who was misinformed about its expected effects because of it’s relation to the more infamous phencyclidine. So my experience might’ve been different if we weren’t sitting around waiting to feel a PCP trip. With that in mind, I recall:
-pleasant mood lift that was so subtle it could be more accurately deemed a attitude shift towards contentment.
-No classic stimulant energy at all. -Probably a moderate boost in cognitive energy with solid benefits to parameters of attention (less effortful focus, less distractability, stronger control on set shifting, etc.). Related boosts in confidence and willingness/interest to engage in the object of focus, but I could have been hyper focused on waiting for a high to kick in from a drug I unknowingly hadn’t actually consumed.
-No recollection of classic stim cardio and physiological arousal symptoms. I felt calm, sober, and disappointed in the surprise of this drug versus the experience my friend hyped up to me, yet I remember being at peace with it, not stressing or spewing negative emotions, and simply feeling grateful to have a life in such a complex world I felt atypically curious to explore.
-Duration was not exceptionally long but we probably contaminated the results with benzos and booze later that evening. My body never got any rush or a “get up and go” feeling, much less the hyperlocomotive physical stimulation I get on massive amounts on amph. and the like. However, my cognition remained buffered by the substance in and could be very functional for some people looking for that. The cognitive load we get each day is a scarce commodity, and I felt cognitive efforts were less costly than usual and allowed extra expenditures of mental effort. Far less so than adderall and such things, but nothing to dismiss given the concomitant boost in attitude, confidence, interest, and stress resilience.
Conclusion: A valuable stimulant with attractive low risk to health and low negative side effects. Mentality towards life was moderately influenced towards the confidence and interest in engagement dopamine brings. No “high” to speak of in a recreational sense, but I think people expect drastic effects and tend to discount the value of a positive mood and attitude towards life and its stressors. Plus, lack of dynamism in that sense also probably gave me a lack of dysphoria and crash. I’d compare it as a stimulant that ranges somewhere between a peak rank at a solid notch below Ritalin, with less potency and less sides, and bottom range rank approximating an improved version of modafinal, with better wakefulness and much greater mental and mood stimulation, yet similar in lacking significant physical stimulant effects and falling far short of recreational.
I would buy it again to give it another chance, so that says something positive about its potential, at least in my case.
