Why does this not surprise me ? You have preferred, ahhh, ratios ?
Hey now, it’s story time!
Haha. What I meant was how it makes you feel. I find some of the negative effects from my high TAF mix on my ownself get mitigated with alcohol, and that the fun factor of both the taf and the alcohol synergize into something where the end result is greater than the sum of its parts. Just don’t go overboard on the liquor.
did you wear anything in addition to TAF?
I agree, nice synergy.
TAF update/experience here…
several days ago had my first day off/private time for awhile so i wanted to try and experiment with TAF. sprayed 30mcg’s between chest neck and wrists and sure enough within an hour an old friend stopped by unannounced for a chat.
we ended up having a good long conversation on a range of topics that i hadn’t thought of or spoken about in many many years, however, after he left it amazed me at how easily i was able to visualize and vocalize each of my points and or comments. we weren’t talking about the color blue or a game of tic tac toe either, but rather, reasonably involved issues related to the mechanics of flight and things like fly by wire controls in formula 1 cars etc.
so no sex stories this time and certainly no goat, but one hell of a cerebral experience. i wasn’t particularly externally observant so i can’t really report on how it may have affected him at all, but the internal observations during the conversation certainly had an effect on how i relayed the information.
Was he ordering straight beta-nol or a combo with TAA? I find this interesting as I’ve been meditating for about 7 years now. After one of my first applications of WAGG, I meditated right afterwards and discovered it really put me in the “zone.” Now I occasionally put a drop of WAGG in my moustache before meditation. Otherwise, I’ve found a good quality incense can help reach an alter state.
I still have a partial vial of TAA that I got when I ordered A314 through Love Scent. And yesterday, I ordered Instant Shine and the 10mcg version of TAF here. Any recommendations for any of your other products which may enhance meditation?
From a newbie outside perspective, this seems like something you get high off of? wtf?
Got my first shipment tonight, I think the psychedelic effects I reported in my “Instant Wow!” (Instant "WOW!") thread were caused by the leaking TAF bottle that I got all over my hands. The cap seemed to be on well. In fact, when I unscrewed it, there was a short hiss, as if the contents were under pressure. One of the other two bottles in my shipment hissed, but I don’t remember the third one doing so. I’m pretty sure it was the TAF that leaked as the volume was a little lower and the bottle was wet compared to the others. Still a full bottle as far as I’m concerned though.
I think I agree that this isn’t one to use at work. In fact, I wouldn’t want to drive at the dose I received tonight until some time after it wears off a bit.
I had the same thing happen. Let me first say that the bottles were super-well packaged. One of the bubble pouches was slightly wet inside, as were the sides of two of the three bottles. But it was sooo minor, I never could determine which of the bottles it was. I just rubbed both bottles dry against my neck, stuck my hand in the pouch and rubbed that on my wrists. So not to worry.
hmmm this seems like something i would mix with CTTM2
25-50 mcg TAF seems to have an interesting impact on one’s ability to hear foreign languages in noisy environments. Normally on the underground one has to strain to make out conversations but I am much more aware with TAF even if it’s a language I don’t know.
We know TAF is bad for activities where you need graceful coordination such as dancing. I wonder how it would be for bodywork - like Alexander technique or Feldenkrais. Much of Feldenkrais is about building new neural pathways so that you are more aware of your body and what it can do - I could imagine that TAF might help your brain to stop filtering out ‘useless’ information of this sort.
Are there are any other compounds - pheromones or otherwise known to influence the reticular activating system, I wonder…
Crap I wish I would have read this thread beforehand.
I wore a mix containing 25mcg TAF today and tried to study. It actually worked quiet well in an extremely quiet, undistracting study environment. I seemed more able to teach myself concepts, if that makes any sense. Maybe I was better able to visualize and conceptualize raw factual information…who knows.
Anywhoo after about 5 hours of that, I re-applied and met up some friends to study at a coffee house, and I couldn’t get any work done for the life of me. Everything around me was significantly more distracting…I was completely aware of everything going on around me. Here’s a weird thing, I caught myself checking out the same women in the room over and over…most of which I consciously didn’t find attractive.
When I study in busy areas, I’m usually able to zone myself out by putting on a set of headphones and drowning everything out with music. I read an article once that said that studying while listening to music helps keep the part of your mind that daydreams occupied and you’re better able to concentrate. Normally that works. However, I couldn’t listen to the music and let it drown itself out in the background. I was consciously listening to it while trying to study.
So I take the headphone off and try to study without it. My friends are having a study group next to me, and quite honestly, I was paying more attention to their discussions than my own reading. I even interjected a few times, answering the questions that they asked each other.
I went back and forth between headphones and no headphones until I gave up for the night. and here I am.
I must say, TAF really is an interesting pheromone…not something that should be used when you need to concentrate though
Ooh..I don’t know about that Sigma - I find sex VERY focused if I use TAF… ^_~
..and I like to concentrate on that!
Ail 
It’s the same here, absolutely!
Notice anything new about your friends or the music?
Hard to say what the effect on my friends were, as for the most part I was trying to keep to myself and get my studying done. I wasn’t actively looking for the effects that TAF had on them.
As far as the music goes…not that it sounded different or anything, but when I normally listen to music while studying, I tend to listen to the music passively…it just kinda blurs into the background and helps me focus. Last night, however, I would feel more highly involved in listening to the music. I was more into the music. I would read a few pages and realize I was more attuned to the music than my reading…if that makes sense.
I was also more consciously aware of what others around me were doing. ie I couldn’t block their conversations out, and was actively paying attention to that as well.
Its almost as if everything around me was noticably more stimulating than my studies, and I couldn’t block them out. Perhaps it would be easier to focus on something that you do find stimulating, ie sex in Ail’s case, but it was noticably harder for me to focus.
Whats your take on it?
Did you notice anything different about your friends though? When you see somebody every day you often tune out things that would be very noticeable to a stranger.
I posted about this in the thread, but became much more aware of the detailed structure of the music - instrumentation, rhythms etc.
Not necessarily, but again I wasn’t actively trying to pay attention to them
Well, I was listening to a group called Kyoto Jazz Massive. Their particular genre is a more modern spin on contemporary jazz…incorporating a lot of house elements with contemporary jazz. Some people label it nu jazz others deep house. Anyway its really loungy type of stuff. Usually when I listen to it though, I’m more attuned to the jazz elements, and it seems more laid back and easy to passively listen to. But when I was listening to it last night, I was more actively listening to it…and as such, the upbeat house elements, the stuff you want to move to, seemed to stand out. and yeah it was more distracting.
Cool (will check them out - which is the best album to start with?)
See pilot.pheromoneblogs.com for more on TAF
www.myspace.com/kyotojazzmassive
All the albums are pretty good…depends on what style you like. They’re older stuff had a jazzier feel to it…much more mellow, laid back. “Spirit of the Sun” is among my favorites from them.
They’re newer releases have a distinctively more house feel to it. This is kind of the trend that house music has gone to…a kind of evolutionary step backwards to a jazzier feel. This is the kinda stuff they’ve got hosted on their myspace page (excellent place to discover new music btw).
I could host some stuff on my streamload account for you if you’re interested.