My 2 cents

Field Reports & Anecdotal Experience Men's Journals
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So, this is meant to be my contribution to the Journals / Logs Sub-forum.

Feel free to give me feedback, advice, or point out things I might find interesting if something comes to mind :slight_smile:

Firstly, I’m bringing a warning: I suffer from a mild case of ADHD, and so this Journal may seem incomplete and in lack of elaboration, although I’ll do the best I can to keep it as complete and indepth as possible.

Secondly, I’ll tell you, the reader(s)

A little about myself:

My name is Simon. I’m a 21-year-old Dane and I work at a café in an art museum. As stated, I have a mild case of ADHD, and so this journal may be neglegted, and will vary in depth and quality from post to post.

I go out 1-3 times on a weekly basis, and along with my workplace, those are mostly the settings wherein I’ll do my fieldwork.

The Purpose of this journal, is to be able to backtrack my own perception of the effect of mones, and furthermore reach a verdict, as to whether or not I believe in mones. And now, you might say “woah, back up, mones have been proven time and time again to work!”, as to which I’ll answer, that I were never a person to be easily convinced. I have to see things for myself, and I’m making this journal, both for myself, and whomever else it might concern.

Armory:
My First shipment of mones arrived today, 10/28/10, and consisted of:

1 Instant Shine
1 AMMO
1 IO
And a To-go TUTH, which I received as a gift.

Hypothesis:
If everything goes as planned, I will be convinced of the effect of mones, despite whatever factors might blur the results in the process. I’ll test various amounts of mones in different doses, and different settings. In the end, if the mones really work, I’ll end up being a happier, more succesful person, living a more fulfilled life*****

I’ll do my best to point out sources of errors / reduced efficiencies etc for each log posted, though I might miss some.

That’s it for now, first post incoming!

I’m not expecting the mones to do all the work, however, whilst respecting the 90/10 rule, I’m hoping that they will be a means to ultimately making life better.

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Training Day:

First time using mones; highly inaccurate, mostly because of anticipation and a possible placebo effect.

Setting:

On the way to work, at work. (Café)

Wearing:

1 Spray of Instant Shine applied to the Chest.

Hypothesis:

Coworkers and customers alike will be slightly more careless and smiling. People will be slightly more polite than usual, and customers and myself alike will smile to oneanother like usual, though it’ll seem more genuine and whole-heartedly to me.

Potential sources of Error:

After applying, I changed shirt to my working clothes, might lessen the effect of the mones.

Fireplace was lit, and food was being made. The smells of those might suppress the smell of the mones.

High expectations might cause a placebo effect.

“So, how did it go?”

Initially, I felt nothing. Noticed myself smelling it repeatedly, came to the conclusion that Instant Shine smells really well, and the smell wouldn’t seem weird to people coming near as I was nervous it would in the beginning.

Found myself smiling alot whilst walking to the bus. I think the mones had an effect on myself, as I in hindsight appeared more relaxed and careless. Most people whom I smiled to, returned the smile, although some didn’t. As this was outside and in relatively cold weather, I believe that it wasn’t the mones playing in on them, but rather on myself, thus lifting my mood and therefore making me smile. Also my excitation for trying this out might have played a role.

All in all, the day at work went by quite fast. Time seemed to go faster than usual, and I had a few quite interesting conversations with my female colleagues, though they didn’t seem to be out of the ordinary.

In conclusion:

This first day of testing was a relative succes. I’m a 100% positive, that a placebo effect of some kind was strongly presented in today’s testing, though I also seemed to be in a slightly better mood, than I’d usually be. Whether or not this was caused solely by placebo, by both placebo or the mones, or solely by the mones, I’m certain that something was different today.

My guess is, that the mones had the strongest effect on myself, though the mood they got me in seemed to be contagious to my colleagues.

Next time, I’ll wait spraying on Instant Shine, till I’ve changed into my working clothes, and I’ll repeat this experiment for a week or two, as to try and get rid of the possibility of a possible placebo effect.

As for now, this was all. More to come in the weekend!

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To whom it may concern: The journal continues.

Okay so I’ve been using mones through the weekend, and though this part may not be neither useful nor informative, I’ll post it anyway, since it’ll be entertaining to read later (or so I hope).

Friday:

Friday was an off-day from work, so I spent most of the day relaxing and charging up the batteries for the evening. Gave in to temptation, and did:

Rig for Friday:
2 IS, chest and neck and
2 AMMO, wrists and neck

Now I promised myself not to do so many sprays in the beginning, since I wanted to notice the difference of different doses, but we’re all human here, and I gave into temptation and rigged up with the above.

Hypothesis:

Wearing mones in my usual venue will increase both number of hits, and the general awareness of my presence in the venue. Also, the IS will improve my own ability to talk to people whom I don’t know, and be more careless and upbeat than I usually am in bars.*

Abstract of the field work done:

Had a fun night out. Generally, people in my proximity seemed to be affected by the IS. I was out with two female colleagues, and I noticed them flirting more with me, and being more touchy-feely than usual. They’re really good friends, but they didn’t really talk to each other, since most of the time, their attention was directed at me. Almost kissed one of them, but just before it would’ve happened, she held my head and whispered, that however much she’d wanted to kiss me, she didn’t want to mess up our good relationship, and have awkward situations at work. This seemed weird since she had been coming on to me most of the evening, but I guess this proves, that mones aren’t magical and all-overpowering.

Also, I experienced the rumoured “IS Crash” that is meant to be simillar to a caffeine crash. It really is. Once it wore off, I was suddenly really tired, and the pleasant buzz I’d had all evening, turned into slight nausea and dizziness. I gotta be careful with that stuff from now on, as it was not at all a pleasant experience :slight_smile:

Potential sources of Error:

Went a bit overboard with the mones, cause I wanted to see results. Changed more than one perimeter at once, which is worse than dividing by zero in the world of “scientific fieldwork”.

Since it was at a bar, and I was out with my two good friends, I took a little too much of a liking to the alcohol that night. Not too much in the sense of being too drunk in general, but too drunk to really closely observe the results of the mones.**

Still a possible touch of placebo.

In conclusion:

Since I did many more sprays than the first day, the results were more blatant and easier to spot. I now have a hundred percent faith in the effect of mones, and I’m starting to see the bigger picture, how they work, and ultimately how they should be used.

Next time, I’ll drink a bit less, and chat up more strangers, since I now am confident that the mones work, however, I’ve also now found out, that though they do give the user quite an edge, and a load of extra confidence, they aren’t magical. It’s the 90/10 rule over and over again, the user still has to do all the work, the mones just make the work easier, more straightforward and, all in all, more managable.

That’s it for Friday!

*I’ve come to find out, that I didn’t respect the 90/10 rule. I wasn’t outgoing enough, and didn’t open up the sets myself. I was counting on mones to do it for me, but I’ll learn to open with time, when I’m more confident and extrovert :slight_smile:

**This wasn’t entirely by accident. I figured, that it shouldn’t all be broken down to science and journals for me. I want to have fun while I do the research, even though the scientific integrity might slip, it’ll still be a good and fun read some day. (I hope lol)

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Saturday:

Went to have lunch with a friend, my mom and her husband. After this, me and my friend laid back and chilled for a few hours, then hit a bar in Copenhagen. Repeated the dosage from friday, and added a spray of IO

Rig for Saturday:

2 IS, chest and neck and
2 AMMO , wrists and neck
1 IO neck
Thought since friday night went well with that dosage, I’d repeat the success and see, if the effect is consistant. Also, I really liked the effect it gave.

Hypothesis:

Same as for friday, meaning that I’ll be better than usual at talking to people I don’t know, and when I do, I’ll be more relaxed. This newfound relaxation combined with the effect of mones, will have them perceive me as more likable in general. The added IO will help me talk to people in situations, where I’d usually look away, since I’m shy by nature.

Abstract of the field work done:

My talk / listen ratio changed drastically compared to my usual behaviour. Usually I listen more when out with friends. yesterday, I talked more, and didn’t feel awkward in situations where I’d usually do so. I think the IO did its thing for me. I talked to a girl whom I’d have never talked to if it wasn’t for the IO. I know this, cause it was the most awkward situation ever. I waited for way too long with approaching her, even though she was mere 3 feet away from me. Usually I’d be like “nah, too awkward” in my head, and walk away, but instead I started talking to her. Just before we left, I went back to her and got her phone number, another thing I wouldn’t usually do.

Also, I talked to a guy, who was way better at tying a tie than I was. I had fun talking to him, and the IS made it fun rather than embarassing, to have someone tie my tie for me. I ended up calling him the “tieguy”, and he came and sat at our table laughing and drinking with us.

Third and final point of interest this night is the fact that I made out with a female friend of mine. Now we’ve always had a thing going between us, but last time we were out, she hook line & sink’d me, by walking away in the last minute while smiling. Apparently the mones closed the deal this time, which really just reinforced my perception of what mones are; that extra little push, that good people may need to get their game on.

Potential sources of Error:

Again, alcohol is a blatant factor.

Still I am very aware, that I’m wearing the mones, so I might overinterpret some of the situations a tad. This collides with the possibility of a placebo effect, though I think that’ll pass away with time.

In Conclusion:

Success! The IO proved really valuable to me, and so did both AMMO and IS as usual. Been using mones for 3 day, and already I’m both content with the effect, and very convinced of it.

That’s it for saturday! short log about sunday coming up! :smiley:

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Sunday:

This one won’t be broken down into paragraphs, it’s just an observation that I did:

IS works as a charm against hangovers! :smiley:

Woke up and felt hung over. Tired, headache, dryness in the mouth, we all know the feeling. Did 2 IS on chest and neck, and 1 AMMO in the hair, just to see what’d happen.

5 Minutes later, I was completely fit for fight, and my 6½ hour shift in the Café. It was a really busy day, though the IS kept me and my colleagues in a good and careless mood. I noticed a few of the female customers looking my way when I passed them, though this might be my mind exaggerating a bit. Experienced another IS crash. I can’t state enough how much You Do Not Want This To Happen At Work! The following hour or so felt like a week, crashing the IS, wihch had simultaneously been keeping away my hangovers, and keeping me energetic and upbeat, hit me kind of hard. All in all a valuable experience though.

This day got me thinking quite a bit though. I think consumers may do well in not overdoing it with mones, since one could end up with depending alot on those. Now, in our liberal western world, I’ve been brought up to learn, that any dependability, or addiction per se is bad bad bad, and my parents have emphasized this hugely all of my life; This is why an alarm bell rang, once I noticed how good life with mones is. I might end up depending on them for a successful life, but after giving it some thought, I decided that I didn’t care.

Depending on something isn’t bad, it’s merely the way of life. We depend on many things, like food, sleep, clean water, means of transportation, cigarettes, sex, caffeine, you name it. Mones are just another thing, to easen up this old thing called life, and I’m enjoying the crap out of it! :smiley:

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Tuesday:

Decided on monday, that I’d take two days without mones to let NTs reset; Then I found out that this girl at work whom I really like was on lunch break at the same time as me, so couldn’t help but do 1 spray of IS to the neck. After this log, I’ll probably stop reporting everyday scenarios, unless I spray on heavy, or get huge hits. This is due to the fact, that I’m continuously getting small hits all the time. Most of them probably comes from my skyrocketing confidence and self-esteem, and it has really made work days a much more fun and careless experience. but for now I’ll cut to the chase:

First interesting point is, that this girl I like named Anna (From hereon I’ll refer to her as Anna, and she’ll probably have a mention or two in this journal :slight_smile:) Usually, I have a bit of trouble with keeping the conversation flowing with her. Today was all different though. Since last time I saw her, I’ve been working on improving my body language, and also experienced the effect of mones. And somehow, my new reinforced confidence, mones, and my improved body language all came together in amazing effect! We’ve been talking really well all day, and I’m getting IOIs from her all the time, or many more than usual anyway. Our shifts ended at the same time, and we walked together on the way home. (I couldn’t resist a spray of regular AMMO in the locker room :wink:) She complemented my hair and touched it, and acted all the more flirty than she used to. Now, we in the café usually use the phrase “will you be in tomorrow?” during silent moments, as if to open a new conversation; Today, she shouted it to me after we went our different ways, which I guess I could interpret as her really hoping that I’d be in tomorrow. But that’s all guesswork :slight_smile:

Another point of interest is that one of my superiors who’s usually not treating me too well, were all the more open to me, and she openly stated, that I could have more things the way I want, if I wanted to. Also, usually she doesn’t understand my playful rudeness, though it seems that IS helped me communicate that to her, since she found it funny today.

Third and last point of interest for today:

Gotta start by Quoting one of my earlier posts:

Now the forementioned girl was all over me today. Usually she’s a warm and touchy-feely person, but today was just off the scales! I even pointed it out to her, and she replied with: “yes, I don’t know why that is, that’s just how I am today” … Interesting development :cool:

Also had a hit in the supermarket on the way home, from the cashiergirl. I’m sure it wasn’t as much the AMMO, as the huge genuine grin I sent her, though even if it was, it was knowing I had on the mones, that put me in the mood and gave me the confidence to send her such a big and glad smile :smiley:

I’m telling you guys, whoever may be reading this, mones are the SHHH! They might as well be the feather needed for the scales to tip entirely in the user’s life! Thank you Androtics! you’re GODS!