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I find this kinda weird just because I'm used to seeing what feels like thousands of stories like this on the nootropics subreddit Very few have staying power

hyper(bolic) disco(unting) girl

"like this" = really over the top stories about various substances

@hyperdiscogirl

yeah same

@QiaochuYuan

hmm interesting. i could imagine there are people who are like sort of critically poised for a single intervention to have dramatic effects on their entire system so they're the ones who have these really big dramatic stories

Yeah, maybe? A lot of them have it happen over and over again w different substances that don't stick

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@hyperdiscogirl

now *that's* even more interesting. reminds me of this:

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@meditationstuff

· Dec 21, 2021

"I've been doing this guided meditation for months, w/ body scanning, etc. Good stuff." Me in my head: beginning meditator "I tried this guided meditation, & it was ok. I tried it again the next day & it didn't work at all. What the fuck" Me: intermediate or advanced meditator

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i wouldn't expect oxytocin to keep working forever specifically because it's also a substance produced endogenously by the body, similar to melatonin. like i'd expect the body to eventually compensate for all this exogenous oxytocin flying around

@QiaochuYuan

the body i think wants to maintain the integrity of oxytocin as a meaningful signal and if it keeps not being a signal of what it's sposed to i think the body will attempt to correct that somehow. this is vague but roughly consistent with my experience regularly using melatonin

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