Extremely interesting in that I get somewhat of the opposite effect. I tend to verbally narrate (quietly to myself) all the goings-on in my life while I’m on TAK. I kinda step outside of myself and go, “Now, Warren is interacting with his environment by…”.
I think of TAK as a dissociative. What you say, Andrew, makes sense to me if you assume TAK allows you to step outside of your typical auditory digital existence (and “look at the world at another angle”).
I’ve called TAK the STFU pheromone. In the presence of a bitching woman TAK can be an excellent substitute for A-1 or IFM. I think TAK allowing you to work on your car fits the pattern. Mechanical aptitude is obviously not an auditory.
You’ve probably already found this thread which is a good discussion of TAK:
And an amusing anecdote from my early experiments with TAK: