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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18510990 - 07/04/13 09:30 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Then you can learn new ideas from each other.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Icelander] 1
#18511046 - 07/04/13 09:45 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Absolutely. There have already been so many excellent inputs and suggestions and ideas added to this thread, I really value and appreciate them and have given them good consideration.
So far I am really enjoying the benefits of this lifestyle, although I have not managed the total discipline I intended, having to make various minor compromises as the exigencies of life demand.
Today for example I had to skip yoga in order to finish final thesis revisions. Hopefully I can squeeze it in later.
I also drank some alcohol while out on my long hike (pain relief for sore knees and ankles).
Because of the less than perfect discipline I am managing, I am extending my time frame from four months to "indefinite".
Its really meant to be four months of following it perfectly, so I cant start the four months until I have the whole thing on lock.
So far I am managing most of the program every day, but never all.
It does remind me why yoga is so amazing though, it truly combines the benefits of a full body workout with the benefits of a good meditation. So if you dont have time in the day to do a one hour work out AND a one hour meditation, a one hour yoga class is a good compromise that scratches both itches at once.
I really enjoy the brain training combined with nootropics and am excited to strengthen the physical structure of my brain.
After years of university Lumosity is like a whole different kind of education, not theories and abstract ideas but concrete cognitive tasks that strengthen the brains physical structure in direct ways. Not filling the brain with ideas but changing the actual material organization of the brain in scientifically planned ways.
Hopefully this will act as a corrective and prevent my "absent minded professor syndrome" from worsening (I can remember endless arcane theoretical ideas but not where I put my keys just now).
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18511374 - 07/04/13 11:11 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think it's almost impossible to maintain perfection. What I do is call anything over 90% perfection. That way I don't beat myself up and I can be human.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Icelander]
#18511383 - 07/04/13 11:13 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18534140 - 07/09/13 12:58 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Another update:
SAMe seems to be building up to its effect point. Starting to notice the elevated mood, energy and distinct anti-depressant "high" I associate with SAMe after a week or two of loading it.
Noopept seems to be starting to work big time. I have been taking larger than recommended doses, trying to shrink them a bit now. I will often be playing my lumosity games and think "oh shit I am doing so bad" and then when it ranks me it turns out I just broke my new high score.
I think this shows that it is working- my mind is sped up, so I seem to be going slower, but my scores are higher.
Could also just be progress from the training itself.
I notice a stimulant effect from the noopept, like a clear headed non toxic stimulant. Or a cleaner coffee.
I have been doing yoga regular. Did seven days in a row and noticed my muscles were sore and tired so i took one day off to rest, went back to it today and was so much stronger in my practice, so I think my new pattern will be seven days yoga, one day rest.
I have been meditating semi - regularly, mostly doing the OM chanting on a mala or silent breath meditation.
Need to do more, longer, more regularly to see full benefits but it is relaxing and peaceful.
Been eating fairly good, no major slip ups on the diet come to mind, but I need to stock up on fresh fruits and vegetables.
Overall mental health- fairy good, definitely on a good streak, less anxiety, less depression, more contentment, energy and effectiveness overall, generally improved sleep (going to bed earlier, waking up earlier). But I fucked that up last night by drinking coffee in the evening which kept me up until 3 am. Lesson learned.
Dream recall quite good. Some strange phenomenon- sleep paralysis and entity visitation. I woke my wife up by making a wierd strangled yelling noise and she hit me in the chest in fear. I was in sleep paralysis and these little aliens were running around me and freaking me out so I tried to scream and couldnt, when I finally did it came out as this wierd yell and my wife whacked me.
Been fairly good about keeping the progress journal.
Had alcohol last on Canada day, so this is a week without alcohol and I am starting to feel the benefits of that.
Some days I feel a bit blue, so i take a small spoonful of kratom, that works wonders for me, and I take more spoonfuls through the day as needed, has enormous benefits for me.
On days when I am giving kratom a tolerance break I take kava for a nice anxiety relief buzz.
Been smoking only the vaporizer for my herbal medicine, so my lungs are thanking me.
Physical fitness level- excellent. Today is the first day I could do all the one legged balancing postures in yoga without falling out of the Asana. Making real progress is nice.
Overall very happy with how Project Mastermind is working- my lumosity scores are improving, my yoga practice is improving, my emotional health, confidence, and intellectual sharpness are improving, and I have dropped my bad habits (drinking alcohol, eating sugar).
I have failed not to masturbate but will try to get back on that.
Now, onwards and upwards!
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18534235 - 07/09/13 01:29 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for updating on your progress. Sounds like you are enjoying the routine & benefitting from it, too.
I think you should keep this thread updated. I'm really interested in the effects of the nootropics.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Penelope_Tree]
#18536812 - 07/09/13 09:52 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was just thinking today that i could go for an update on this.
I could talk on some entity sleep paralysis, that can be freaky stuff. Does this happen often with you or do you suspect it is brought on through your regimen, if so what parts are suspect?
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Thanks guys, I will keep up the updates .
I have a long history of lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, out of body experiences, astral projection and entity encounters .
Don't get me wrong, I usually just have dreams, and I often have lucid dreams, but things like sleep paralysis and entity encounters are rare .
I can only speculate if this experience was related to project mastermind or not.
I should point out that the aliens were not hostile, they were small and had red lights on them, and they darted around, running like little children, on the periphery of my vision, I could not get a direct look at them.
I regret panicking the way I did. I want to make peaceful contact , but when it comes to the visitation I get very afraid just by the uncanny strangeness of it and sort of abort the visit prematurely.
Next time I will try to remain calm, greet them and hopefully communicate instead of just screaming like a fool.
I have so much interest in meeting aliens, but when they show up all I want is to hug my wife and get away from them.
I have encountered truly diabolical entities before, beings I call spirits of invasive fear, who seem incredibly malicious, but these guys were more like "Fong" from reboot.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18537493 - 07/10/13 12:29 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
You might want to read about this... I experiences memories of dreams in imagery, old, old, long forgotten dreams, dreams within dreams, they cascade, one feels buried underneath the other and it's all right before I go to sleep - it makes me feel like I have this rich internal life just every so slightly beneath the surface of my conscious mind, and it's all so beautiful. Lately I'm able to recall more and more of it, and I've been sort of arranging these pre-sleep phenomenon on a virtual globe like it's feng shui. Ones that have places in space and time go on earth, in approximations of where I feel they belong, and others go out in space. I also experience the sleep paralysis, sometimes I go from lucid dream straight into a meditative sleep paralysis where I'm not fighting it and get real high, other times the sleep paralysis makes me feel quite claustrophobic and anxious - I know what's happening but am afraid it's going to last forever. Other times I hear characters interact before waking, almost like watching a really good film that I'm not a character of. Anyways, I've found right before sleep and right as you wake to be equally as interesting if not more so than the more potent dreams.
Stay the course and g/l.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#18538545 - 07/10/13 09:31 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thank you. One thing I have learned is that when you are in a state of sleep paralysis, you are primed and ready to have an out of body experience. Apparently that state of being lying in bed, unable to move, means you can at that point will yourself to float out of your body and have an out of body experience.
Something to try next time you find yourself there.
A typical morning in project mastermind:
1. wake up and write down your dreams
2 . take SAMe, B vitamins (they help absorbtion of the SAMe) and first dose of noopept. SAMe should always be taken on a completely empty stomach, thus first thing in the morning is best
3. Do your daily lumosity training on the PC
4. Have a healthy breakfast (I usually take a vega all in one shake and a vega protein shake, I add spriullina, chlorella and hemp oil if I have it)
5. Go to yoga. I usually take a 60 or 90 minute yoga class.
6. Shower off thoroughly. Note that showering is a great time to chant a mantra such as OM or Hare Krishna.
7. Meditate- write down your start time, sit in lotus, do your full meditation. After the meditation is finished remain sitting in lotus and take twelve inhalations and twelve exhalations to seal the practice. Write down your stop time.
8. Prayers- I usually chant the Gayatri mantra 3 times "Om Bhur Bhuvah Suvaha Tat Savitur Varenyam Bhargo Dewasya Dimahi Dyoyona Prachodayat" Translation "May our meditation be on the glorious light, and may that light illumine our minds".
I then pray the Lords Prayer "our father, who are in heaven... etc"
And just like that you have done all the major tasks for the day- supplementation, brain training, yoga (which entails strengthening exercise, flexibility stretching, breath control and meditation), and meditation proper.
Later in the day I do another round of brain training exercises and another round of meditation.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18539009 - 07/10/13 12:10 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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"spirits of invasive fear" i have dealt with these and that's a perfect description. I have also dealt with benevolent ones that pump love and healing (that was very cool). And then there have been ones that where not hostel, at least overtly, sometimes i cant get a read on them and that causes a fear, sometimes i deal with it and observe.
I agree its an OBE launch pad, my problem is that my energy body is usually also stuck or slow moving in this state, like im in mud. I have to will myself to shake out and start again without falling asleep or freezing again. I have not had willful or useful OBEs in some time. Actually i don't know if any have been 'useful' because they are so inconsistent that i wouldn't know where to begin being objective, but they are so fun
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Icelander]
#18553832 - 07/13/13 05:02 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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After all, the most extreme stresses produce the most durable metals: I'll take the highest highs of euphoric bliss AND the lowest lows of intense agony over the mundane mediocrity of myopic moderation. 
Do you think if you saw a psychiatrist that you'd be diagnosed as bipolar?
Mmmm, I don't think I'm more bipolar than the average person--we all tend to have our ups and downs, our periods of excited mania and the times when we need to fight to extract meaning and happiness from the world around us. But I definitely do have the trait of novelty-seeking: I crave new experiences and find myself bored when I'm just doing the same monotonous things over and over again. I'd rather regret having done something than not having done it when I'm laying on my deathbed. Why not experience all that life has to offer: both the good AND the bad?
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Moonshoe said: Well said. Maybe ill compromise and allow alcohol in moderation.
Edit: I am sticking to the strict no alcohol in accordance with the fifth precept of Buddhism.
Your rationale for avoiding alcohol wholly is what, if I may inquire? The mere fact that Buddhists do so? I've never seen anything to really challenge my belief that learning how to use, rather than ABuse, alcohol in moderation is ultimately more rewarding and a better test of one's faculties than complete abstinence. 
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It's only 4 months IMO.... You created the terms of this experiment, and now you're back peddling on actually performing it.
because dogmatically sticking to one's past ideas for the mere sake of consistency alone is better than being flexible, open-minded, and willing to adapt one's views in accordance with changing perspectives? But seriously, isn't the intent of this to fashion a daily routine that would then be eventually adopted permanently?
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What about Heroin then? In moderation of course.
Yeah, that last part can be a bit tricky though.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: crkhd]
#18553963 - 07/13/13 05:30 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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"I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, O man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this."
This isn't really a matter of who can drink alcohol and hold it down and has hair on their chest.
Not sure where I implied that.
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Some people may find alcohol totally useless and detrimental in their life, I won't argue with you there. Others may find that learning how to control a substance that has previously given them problems can yield enormous benefits in such areas as increased self-confidence, mastery of one's will-power, decreased inhibition, a boundless optimism, and abolition of social anxiety and fear. Sometimes even a glass or two of wine can provide the most important thing of all: the simple idea that the only important limits that restrain us are those that we make ourselves. 
At any rate, yes, the specific mind-state of unimpaired clarity IS obscured by alcohol, I won't disagree with you there: over-consumption of alcohol definitely dulls the mind and impairs cognitive thought. But that's the whole point! One purpose among many of using this pharmacological tool is to realize the consequences of over-indulgence in a manner and way far more convincing than any pedantic teacher blathering on at the blackboard can do; it's to provide a first-hand look at the cycle of excessive desire leading to suffering and personalized training in the discipline of will-power, moderation, and self control.
Also, on the positive end alcohol can help a neurotic, depressed individual realize that sometimes cheer and optimism really are all within the mind and accessible through a mere change in perspective. Which incidentally is also attainable through such other pharmacological agents as N2O, Ketamine, MXE and PCP--which you so callously lump in with shooting one's self in the head. One only has to read a few hundred reports of psychonauts here to realize that wisdom can be found in NMDA-receptor antagonist dissociatives just as it can be found in sober tranquility or lysergic bliss.
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This is a fallacious argument to my mind... it's equivalent to the following:
"If I'm trying to build muscle, or the ability to apply a force, how does it make sense to push or pull weights that reduce my ability to apply that force?"
Naturally, the answer is that it does make sense because training with a handicap makes one much stronger than training without one. I respect the man who can maintain abstinence in a harem filled with thousands of luscious, naked women far more than the man who can maintain abstinence on top of a cold, dark mountain top by himself, for example. Of course, the former scenario will be much more difficult to maintain abstinence--but sometimes the more difficult route is the one that's ultimately more worth taking, to my mind.
Blake wasn't wrong when he gave us a road map to the palaces of wisdom... just keep in mind the ride may be a little bumpy at times. 
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: deCypher]
#18555124 - 07/13/13 10:54 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yah, basically some people are trying to get free of that, and you're trying to accept it as it is and make the most of it. You're an adult, and you've got to figure out what works best for you, but I don't think it's the intent of the OP. We'll have to let him clarify.
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because dogmatically sticking to one's past ideas for the mere sake of consistency alone is better than being flexible, open-minded, and willing to adapt one's views in accordance with changing perspectives? But seriously, isn't the intent of this to fashion a daily routine that would then be eventually adopted permanently?
I see it differently, that dogmatically sticking to one's past ideas would be a belief that they are incontrovertibly true (that the goal is to never drink again), which isn't the same as experimenting to free oneself from attachment to the 'good and the bad', trying to stop this yoyo of up and downs, and being a state of total involvement where new exciting experiences and boredom aren't even relevant. He's trying to grow from those roots IMO, but we can let him clarify.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: deCypher]
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For once in a long while on the interwebnets I can say finally...
I agree. Nothing more to say
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#18556339 - 07/14/13 08:42 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have experimented extensively with alcohol and researched it extensively as well and come to one very clear conclusion-
No thank you. Not for me. No benefit, only detriment. Useless, addictive, neurotoxic poison.
No thank you. Not for me.
But your mileage may very, and by all means drink in moderation if you feel that is better.
I have tried it all ways, and abstinence is the only path that corresponds with my lifestyle and values and the prerogatives of project mastermind.
Alcohol is definitely out of the program, for me.
You may modify as needed.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
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I agree. Nothing more to say 
Way to just completely skip over my fully elaborated points in lieu of offering up a somewhat condescending two-word summary of my post without so much as an offer to provide interesting rebuttal. 
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No thank you. Not for me. No benefit, only detriment. Useless, addictive, neurotoxic poison.
No thank you. Not for me.
That's fair enough, man. You've had addiction issues with alcohol in the past though, right? I can understand a knee-jerk reaction against even indulging in a little amount of the same substance that was detrimental towards your previous life, but this still just strikes me as an essentially fear-based perspective. "Shit, I was an addict so therefore I'll always be an addict." "Shit, my NA counselor told me that if even just sip a beer, I'm gonna be smoking crack in a couple weeks." And so on.
Not saying your motivations are similar, but in my pretty extensive history of meeting alcoholics and other addicts, I've learned that they tend to be pretty damn masterful at reading other people but definitely NOT capable of reading themselves with complete honesty. It certainly is easier to abstain from alcohol if one can successfully convince one's self that alcohol has no benefits whatsoever, that it's completely useless, and that it can provide no benefits at all. Alas, maintaining an admittedly useful belief becomes hard when one becomes confronted with the realization that actually alcohol CAN provide a myriad of different benefits, that alcohol is an incredibly useful tool for eliminating social inhibitions, allowing your nerdy friend to realize that his social anxiety/shyness is all a product of his mental perspective, giving a truly powerful lesson as to the essence of addiction with a resulting diploma in escaping the cycle of Desire, and challenging those life-long ingrained fear of death and/or brain damage that must (however hard it is) ultimately be circumvented if one truly wishes to obtain Enlightenment.
Not trying to come off as a dick, though. I tried the whole Allan Carr tactic while attempting to quit smoking where I'd repeat "smoking has NO benefits" over and over to myself until I thought I'd successfully brainwashed myself into believing it. All it took was finding a full Newport ciggie resting on a park bench to rip the wishful thinking blinders from my eyes and realize that yeah, actually, smoking DOES have benefits. If it didn't, people wouldn't smoke to begin with. The massively euphoric buzz, the stress-calming relaxation, the 15 minute break that allows a form of socialization most non-smokers can never understand, etcetera. Unfortunately, smoking also does come with a huge list of detriments--it's just a matter of determining whether the pros do, in fact, outweigh the cons.
I personally try to avoid blanket generalizations, especially those that include judgmental, knee-jerk reactions against certain drugs that although might have been created for a good reason (scaring the younger generation into staying away from drugs), are in fact much more counterproductive in the long run. I know personally when I figured out that DARE at my high school was completely bullshitting us as to the harmful effects of marijuana that it made me lose most of my respect for the government. And not believing their "educational" PR releases can also lead to users trying heroin, crack, or methamphetamine following the same belief that well, since they lied about pot then they're probably lying about every other drug too.
But at any rate, do what makes you live up to your fullest potential. And when, years down the road, you suddenly realize that your dozen or so projects through the past thirty years have been mere distractions from your impending mortality and haven't meaningfully impacted human society or our current preconception of politically correct wisdom, at least it still won't be too late to enlighten your brain with excessive spiritual-producing intoxication.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: deCypher]
#18558038 - 07/14/13 04:23 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was never addicted to alcohol per se, just drinking more than I thought was optimal.
But from a spiritual point of view, both Buddhism and Hinduism are explicit that alcohol consumption is simply not compatible with a sincere spiritual path- its an impediment to yoga, meditation, mindfulness and compassionate wisdom. Islam also forbids it, and the jewish torah / Christian old testament has some pretty strong words on why alcohol should be left alone.
To each their own. My life is much better without alcohol and I am not looking back.
I am all about yoga, meditation, lucid dreaming, and brain-training, nootropics, lumosity and education.
Alcohol hinders all the pursuits that are important to me.
Your mileage may very.
I was at an open bar weddng social yesterday and not drinking as everyone else did, and I just kind of calmly observed the patterns of behaviour and consumption and effects.... its clear as day to me now. Alcohol is a dirty trick, we are all enamored with it or enchanted by it but the good feelings we have about it are a lie, a promise that is always broken.
Enjoy drinking until you don't. I no longer do.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe]
#18558152 - 07/14/13 04:44 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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What's the deal with lumosity? I feel like that's some government sponsored brain washing or something.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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Lumosity is amazing. I love it. There are 8 training games on the iphone and 40 on the pc that you can use. You train every day playing the games. They are designed using neuroscience principles and have been extrensively tested in many high level prestigious and well controlled university scientific studies. The evidence is totally conclusive- regular lumosity training improves many aspects of brain performance (attention, memory, focus, concentration, processing speed, problem solving, flexibility etc) and actually causes new growth of cells in the brain. So lumosity actually physically changes the structure of your brain to make it stronger, just like lifting weights physically changes the structure of your muscles to make it stronger.
Nootropic drugs like piracetam and noopept have similar effects- improving congnition and repairing neurons.
So I combine the two- I take my nootropic drugs and do lumosity every day.
It helps prevent alzheimers, dementia, senility and decreased cognitive performance do to age.
Its also fun. I love it!
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