# Recent dabblings: A return to the world of pheromones **URL:** \ **Category:** Men's Pheromone Advice & Field Reports\ **Created:** [July 16, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/recent-dabblings-a-return-to-the-world-of-pheromones/30724 "2009-07-16T02:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vespero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/vespero/32/988_2.png) [@Vespero](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Vespero)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/recent-dabblings-a-return-to-the-world-of-pheromones/30724/1 "2009-07-16T02:49:02Z")
The past year, I’ve been really neglecting my testing. I kept promising I’d be back, and bought a lot of experimental mixes, but never reported back, so I have to apologize for that. However, recently I’ve felt another surge of excitement about testing and playing with [pheromones](https://pheromonelabs.com/shop/). Strangely, this motivational boost coincided with another event: the first novel I’ve been able to read purely in leisure in over two years. The last couple of years of school were fairly intense, and by the time I was done studying, there was only just enough time to visit with my friends. I blame this on my poor time-management skills. But this summer I took up a volunteer research job at a local college. One day, while waiting for the rotational evaporator to boil all the solvent off of a recently completed reaction to be sent to the NMR, I realized that despite how much I love doing work like this, I can only watch a round bottom flask spin around so many times, or stare at boiling liquid for so many minutes before tedium and boredom set in and I begin to become dissatisfied. So I found entertainment, and picked up a sci-fi novel at a nearby Books-A-Million. Starting was slow. I was used to scanning text, making note of interesting or relevant facts, and remembering them. All I needed to do now was sit back and enjoy, let the story take me, but the constant cataloguing of details was now a habit engrained in my brain. However, as I continued, it became easier. By the time I had finished, the novel had me fully captivated. More importantly, it had awakened things within me which had long lie dormant: creativity and ambition. I had become complacent because I had become exhausted from constantly absorbing facts, but never taking a moment to reflect. Since then, I’ve continued reading other novels and greatly enjoyed them. But the first one made all the difference, because of the amazing changes it brought with it. I less tired. I feel less fatigued. When I wake up in the morning, I actually get up after I switch off the alarm clock, rather than resetting it 30 minutes forward. I am completing my work more efficiently, pursuing multiple ends at once. And I am happier. I feel a greater desire to learn than I have in the past couple of years. But where learning during that period felt mandatory and forced, even though I often enjoyed it, now I feel a return to the ravenous appetite for knowledge I had before my leisure time scarce. My brain needed a break–the sort that things like sleep or interaction with my peers couldn’t provide–and it received one. All because I was a bit bored. Now, back to my few recent tests. Despite not using most of my mixes recently, I still tended to apply a couple of drops of A314 every morning after my shower. I believe it helped overcome the problems I might have had with my mentor otherwise. The first week that I came in to do research, I had usually stayed up late with friends the night before, or was hungover or incapacitated in other ways. I also had not had a chemistry class for over a year. So of course I made mistakes, and probably didn’t seem too bright. But by the end of the research period, my mentor and I carry on running jokes about the other professors and the state of disrepair of the university’s laboratories (the guy just arrived in January.) He is also in his office more and more, allowing me more and more responsibility and encouraging me to experiment with parameters rather than just telling me exactly what to do. I believe A314 helped in this regard. The other day, all my friends were out, so I made a trip to a local 24-hour diner. Before walking in, I had applied a couple of sprays of MX279 from the Ammo test pack. I entered directly in front of a group of three people–two guys and a girl. Two of them appeared as if they might have been dating, and the other guy was just a friend. As I ordered my coffee, I noticed the lone guy give me a look. I made eye contact and gave a friendly smile, as I usually do, and he gave one back, but held eye contact longer than average until I looked away. I went and sat at a table by myself and drank my coffee and read, but whenever I looked up, I always caught him looking at me, and he almost never broke eye contact. He was leaning forward onto the bar, resting his head on his hands, but his body was aimed directly at me, despite the fact that this misaligned it from the bar a bit. However, this might have been because it also pointed him more towards his friends. Still, I can’t discount the possibility that I may have attracted his attention. I had another hit today while wearing 3 sprays of MX136 (one of the “Liquid Sunshine” line). One of my guy friends works under a grad student doing research in the same lab as me. The grad student is a married woman from India, probably in her mid-twenties, and speaks understandable English, but there are still some communication problems at times. Monday, the head of the Chemistry department asked if I could drive her to a local Kroger or Market Basket to get dry ice. We ended up driving all around town because most of the expected places didn’t have it in stock, and laughed about it quite a few times. Today, I walked past her in the lab, and though she had seen me enter, as I passed directly by her, I received a quiet “Hi, Alex.” She also seemed to be asking me a lot more questions about things I would expect her to know about, especially since she is a grad student and I am not even in college yet. She also seemed to do more of her work nearer to me, and when I complained to the open air about needing another NMR tube, she went and looked around the lab and found one and brought it to me. Before today, she has ignored me. In part, I attribute this to our frantic but fun search for dry ice, but that was Monday, and she showed none of this eagerness to help me out (or greet me) yesterday. So, MX136? What do you think? I might be going out tonight, in which case I might try something from the MX311-316 pack if I can. Wish me luck! ---
**Author:** ![Vespero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/vespero/32/988_2.png) [@Vespero](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Vespero)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/recent-dabblings-a-return-to-the-world-of-pheromones/30724/2 "2009-07-16T06:37:40Z")
Before I leave for college in the fall, I’ll also be restocking my consumer line products, if only as To-Go’s for the time being. In a new environment, the relative certainty of the effects of those products will be comforting and convenient. So, I’m buying one of everything in the Men’s To-Go section except [Mystery Boy](https://a314.com/product/mystery-boy/). And I’m definitely still looking forward to testing MXs, both those I already own, and those to come. Eventually, I might start tinkering with Experimones and putatives again, but it all depends on how much time and money I have. Maybe in not too long, I’ll have the chemistry and biological background to better understand how pheromones work. That would be nice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Elaye](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Elaye)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/recent-dabblings-a-return-to-the-world-of-pheromones/30724/3 "2009-07-16T07:34:54Z")
Fictional reading is awesome. I love anything by William Gibson, Ian McDonald and Margaret Atwood and I would highly recommend those authors for science fiction specifically. ---
**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/recent-dabblings-a-return-to-the-world-of-pheromones/30724/4 "2009-07-16T18:39:05Z")
> [@Elaye](#): > > …I would highly recommend those authors for science fiction specifically. You might want to look at _I Will Fear No Evil_ by Robert Heinlein. If you like that one I’ll have another suggestion. I’m sort of in the same situation as you, haven’t been anywhere to really test in the past month or so. ---
**Author:** ![Vespero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/vespero/32/988_2.png) [@Vespero](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Vespero)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/recent-dabblings-a-return-to-the-world-of-pheromones/30724/5 "2009-07-19T04:40:51Z")
So, last night was a lot of fun. I was supposed to go to a party with a friend, so I grabbed MX279, MX316, Ammo, and [Instant Jerk](https://a314.com/product/instant-jerk/). However, by the time we got there, everyone had somehow drunken themselves into oblivion, and with that sort of self-control issues, it’s a good thing we didn’t experience it. So we went to our local 24-hour diner to regroup and rethink our plan of attack on the night. Another of my friends (this is an ex I’ve spoken of before, and there are a lot of lingering feelings, but also a lot of guardedness because of current circumstances; so, lots of room to experiment and observe effects, because I know feelings exist.) Overall, there were what seemed like a lot of hits both from her and from other girls with whom I’m less acquainted. However, I wrote about them in detail in a little marble notebook as soon as I got back to my dorm, but I left that notebook at my house today, so I’ll report in detail tomorrow. As for tonight, I may be going out again, so I’ll probably do a little testing again.