TheReal_ND wrote:It claimed to be modafinil. Tastes terrible. Like dramamine but way stronger. No jitteriness or suppressed appetite.
Yep. That sounds about right.
Test yourself by telling a coworker to write down a random list of words, about 20 nouns for instance. Then he reads them to you in order and you try to remember them. When he is done, recite them back to him in the order in which he said them.
Most people run about 5 +/- 2 items in their working memory. When I was on modofinil in a cognitive science class, we actually broke up and did this experiment in groups. I remembered all 20 and the dude was like WTF???
The words can't be connected and there can't be some common theme. It has to be really random to work without a system to figure out. Random numbers work really well, though. But most of us have a much higher working memory for numbers for some reason. Maybe about 10 number is average rather than 6 or 7.