I’ve finally convinced one of the girls at work to try a “mood spray” for me, for the sake of research. I just got TAF not too long ago, and I’ve been slowly trying it out to see how it suits me. I’ve also been very curious about how placebo effects me – I’m afraid of feeling that,really. Reporting hits and self effects I’m supposed to feel rather than actually just letting pheros take the reign.
I haven’t gotten too many hits these past few days but I got home from work and decided to share some self effects I got from myself and I shall call her M, a barista. I poked her every hour, and ask her how each hour went. She did not know what TAF was or did.
Me – ‘Un-blindfolded’ on 3 sprays of TAF (chocolatini) on neck
Working area – Kitchen, working with food
Self Effects: Started slow – didn’t notice anything as first.
Within the first hour, I noticed that I was able to do tedious things without feeling bored or frustrated like I normally do. I also noted that I would take the LONG way to do things – i.e. instead of pouring a batter into a cupcake mold, I would spoon it; instead of throwing a carrot in the buffalo chopper, I diced it by hand.
By the 2nd hour, I noted it was easier to multitask, even while my mind lingered on other things outside of work. I won’t say I was more focused… It seemed the opposite, actually. For example, I just got a ticket for a BLT - I would think about a conversation I had earlier in the day and by the time I came to, I had somehow put bread in the toaster, tomatoes already sliced, and had bacon cooking up behind me.
The third hour, was pretty much the same except that instead of procrastinating as usual, I was on top of things, like weekend prep. I think these effects only lasted four hours tops for me.
Amazingly, I had passed through the day without hurting myself somehow, too. Usually it happens twice or three times a day.
M (35 years old, Caucasian, female) – Blindfolded on 2 sprays of TAF(chocolatini) on neck*
Working Area – Front of the house, dealing with ALL customers and making drinks
Self Effects – 1st hour : the smell bothered her at first and made her a little dizzy. She didn’t notice anything else.
2nd hour- She found herself rewiping things that did not need to be cleaned. Could NOT multitask, she would find herself waiting for the espresso cup to slowly fill up and wonder ‘ wait, what am I doing ? I could be making other drinks “. She can still smell the chocolatini pretty strongly.
3rd hour – Very strange reaction, now… She tells me that she finds herself looking at other customers, particularly men ( she’s married). I asked her if it was sexual, she says “ Alittle, but I noticed weird things on their faces like their lips, or noses “ She also mentioned that the regulars “looked” different. Tips weren’t really extraordinary.
Well ! Not really any exciting hits at all here, but I feel like me and her got some pretty different reactions and probably worth sharing. If all things go well, I might have her share some other phero’s simultaneously so I can really see what’s in a lot of the phero’s I have (and what it can or can’t do) It’s nice for me to see the difference between myself working alone in a hot kitchen and her, who’s constantly surrounded by talkative people.
But it feels like my brain is on the fritz. Numb. Its hard for me to have a firm grasp on anything afterwards. I dont necessarily feel the physical crash (i.e waking up exhuasted as with Vesp) but then again, I went to sleep and woke up fine. Energetic. Then two hours later, I was crawling back into bed for a nap. …Dunno what happen there.