are there mones that enhance focus, and/or awareness?
From my experience I’d say IO and IS is helpful. They put you “in state”.
TAF or P102
I normally use auto focus but prefer to manually select the AF points using the joystick thingie. I only use manual focus in Live View or macro. A cup of coffee helps sharpen me a bit if it’s early morning but otherwise I prefer going el naturale.
Realize mones evolved as a means of communication with other organisms and are not a good solution for self-medication. Most brains figure out it’s your own funk blowing back to your face and gradually ignore or “filter out” mone signals from your body. I can bathe in freakin’ mones and don’t feel a damn thing. Fortunately it still kicks target arse and that’s what it’s all about.
I’m not sure I agree, in terms of the failure to self medicate. I think that so far, my pheromone experience has been one sided.
I feel that they have affected me more than others. I have not noticed any significant change in behaviour in others around me but I definitely have a different perspective and I am able to view things differently (depending on which pheromone I take).
I used p102 to study for a difficult financial exam. I found that under its influence, I was able to focus the entire day prior on the material.
It must have worked because I passed it on the first shot (yay for me).
I think I have a slight case of ADD but the p102 significantly helps.
I also find that a314 helps with focus as well but that aura gives that older james bond swag (unless it’s in my mind).
But for focus, p102 is king so far.
I personally stand behind its effects.
To further on this a bit: TAF is focus in a broad spectrum and P102 is pinpoint focus. Of course this is my personal experiences with it and you should experiment and then report back how it worked out for you 
Can you explain and give examples of focusing in a broad spectrum as opposed to pinpoint focus and when either or is ideal to be used?
Thanks in advance
It’s really for you to discover when you experiment on it so I’m not going into to much more depth on it here . I will explain it like this though, with TAF if you were driving you’d be focused on the task at hand, but you’d also notice the tree’s the road, the other cars. P102 your focus is on driving and there is nothing else. Think tunnel vision. No cars, no trees no road, just driving.
It is so unfortunate that TAF has been out for so looooong
Like I wrote, with regular use, the self-medication aspects of mones tend to diminish for most users. I was stoned off that shit for about 1 month with diminishing returns across 3 or 4 months. So an interesting diversion for person shortcomings but not a long term solution.
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I find P75 is good. I used it for workouts among other things and it was like I was in a constant state of being present…so much so that 30 mins on the treadmill felt like 10.
That’s funny because when I first started using IS the first thing I noticed was my head felt cloudy. I thought, “maybe this is more like having a couple beers to take the edge off than I realized” (because that’s how 1 reviewer described it). I used IS for the last 3 weeks and actually have gotten almost jack squat done on this project I’m working on. I stopped wearing it today for the first time because I think I may have finally “gotten smart” about it. And here I am wasting time on these forums because my head still doesn’t feel like it’s in the game… can’t blame this on IS but it sure is making me curious enough to lay off the IS for a few weeks and see if my focus and productivity goes back up. I got a sample of IO with my IS so maybe after a few weeks I’ll combine them and see how focused I feel.
What are Putative Pheromones? I checked out P102 to read up on it, but there’s no description or reviews, so I followed the breadcrumb navigation back to Putative Pheromones hoping to find a general overview of what they are and what they do, but it’s just a listing of the different concoctions. What are they supposed to do?
When I look up “putatitive” in the dictionary, I find this definition: “Generally considered or reputed to be” …it’s semi-humorous to me if that’s what the heading actually implies-- “these are generally considered to be pheromones.” Perhaps they are still in testing phase or something?
You pretty much answered your own questions. Putatives are suspected to have pheromone like results
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so if you use one product for an extended period of time your brain gets numb to it?
sounds like a drug tolerance lol.
but seriously if i’ll use them continuously for lets say a week and after a week my brain gets used to it, do i need to up the dose to get the same effect?
Also, for how long should i stop using them, give my brain a break, so that my brain forgets about effects of mones and returns pre-mone phase where i can use just one spray instead of upping it to get the same effect?
P.s. For now i just have consumer line and when i use IO and IH i do feel high and get an elevated mood. didn’t notice increased focus on them, same as with IS
Yeah, I still remember 1st few times Id spray IS…felt like I was high, but i just don’t get that anymore. like Georgi said, I think your brain must get used to it.
You shouldn’t really rely on a pheromone to do that lol.
TAF and P102 are really useful in mixes where you have trouble recognizing hits or subtleties, or you want someone to notice particular molecules that you’re trying to accent in the mix for effects on others. Essentially that’s its indended purpose, not to give you focus on something for a protracted period of time.
haha, i know, i’m not, it is for research purposes, out of curiosity
do they still sell TAF? or they discontinued it for good?
IS is my first spray I tried and I used it every day for 3 weeks, approximately. Today is the first day without it and… definitely noticed that I am focused like a LASER again today. The difference is huge. So… for me, the rest of my IS will be used after work and at parties, etc. whenever I feel like I want a little happy feeling. It’s really not that noticeable, so definitely not worth causing yourself more problems at work by not being able to focus.
It’s funny… I was all positive about my abilities just prior to ordering IS. I ordered IS as an extra sort of “boost,” hopefully, I thought. It didn’t really do what I wanted it to do, which was give me an even more positive outlook on how my programming was coming along. I think it made me comfortable and carefree (careless), though, which is right for certain circumstances! Just not my line of work.
Also, they say this stuff affects everyone differently, so IS may not affect your focus at all. Probably depends on your line of work, as well. I am staring at lines of code all day and trying to figure it out.