Cognitive Enhancement Effects
Analysis enhancement
Analysis enhancement can be described as a perceived enhancement of one's overall ability to process information and logically or creatively analyse concepts, ideas and scenarios. The experience of this effect can lead to deep and complex states of contemplation which often results in an abundance of new and insightful ideas. This can give the person a perceived ability to analyze concepts and problems in a manner which allows them to gain inspiration or reach new conclusions, perspectives, and solutions which would have been otherwise difficult to conceive of.
Anxiety supression
Anxiety suppression can be described as the partial to complete suppression of a person’s ability to feel anxiety, nervousness, general unease and negative feelings of psychological tension. The experience of this effect may decrease anxiety-related behaviour such as rumination, muscular tension, panic attacks, and restlessness.
Creativity enhancement
Creativity enhancement can be described as a perceived increase in one's capabilities to perform tasks which involve either the production of creative output or complex problem-solving skills. This component is particularly useful to artists of any sort as it can help remove a creative block and generally increase one's inspiration. The experience of this effect is often amplified and maintained by other accompanying cognitive effects such as thought connectivity, motivation enhancement, personal bias suppression, analysis enhancement and thought acceleration.
Emotionality enhancement
Emotionality enhancement can be described as an effect which greatly amplifies and enhances one's current emotional state beyond normal levels.
Unlike many other subjective effects such as euphoria or anxiety this effect does not consistently induce specific emotions regardless of a person's current state of mind and mental stability. Instead, it works by amplifying and enhancing the genuine emotions that a person is already feeling prior to ingesting the drug. This causes the effects to be equally capable of manifesting in both a positive and negative direction.
Empathy, affection, and sociability enhancement
Empathy, affection, and sociability enhancement can be described as the experience of a perspective which is dominated by intense feelings of compassion, talkativeness, and happiness. The experience of this effect creates a wide range of subjective changes to a person's perception of their feelings towards other people and themselves. These are described and documented in the list below:
Increased sociability and the feeling that communication is easier and more natural.
Increased urge to communicate or express one's affectionate feelings towards others, even if they happen to be strangers.
Increased feelings of empathy, love, and connection with others.
Increased motivation to resolve social conflicts and improve interpersonal relationships.
Decreased negative emotions and mental states such as stress, anxiety, fear, and paranoia.
Decreased insecurity, defensiveness, and fear of emotional injury or lack of acceptance from others.
Decreased irritability, aggression, anger, and jealousy.
The experience of this effect is often amplified and maintained by other accompanying cognitive effects such as stimulation, motivation enhancement, personal bias suppression, and thought acceleration.
Focus enhancement
Focus enhancement can be described as the experience of an increased ability to selectively concentrate on an aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. It can be best characterized by feelings of intense concentration which can allow one to focus on and perform tasks which would otherwise be considered too monotonous, boring, or dull to not get distracted from. This will often synergize with other coinciding effects such as motivation enhancement, thought acceleration, and stimulation.
Immersion enhancement
Immersion enhancement can be described as an effect which results in a pronounced increase in one's tendency to become fully captivated or engrossed by external stimuli such as film, tv-shows, video games, and various other forms of media. This greatly increases one's suspension of disbelief, suppresses one's memory of the "outside world", and allows one to become engaged on a level that is largely unattainable during everyday sober living.
Increased music appreciation
Increased music appreciation can be described as an increased enjoyment of music. When music is listened to within this state, the perceived music and lyrical content may have a profound impact upon its listener.
This experience can give one a sense of hyper-awareness of every sound, lyric, melody and complex layer of noise within a song in addition to an enhanced ability to individually comprehend its multiple layers of noise. The perceived emotional intent of the musician and the meaning of the music may also be felt in a greater level clarity than that which is attainable during everyday sober living.
Memory enhancement
Memory enhancement can be described as an effect which results in an improved ability to recall and retain memories. The experience of this effect can make it significantly easier for a person to access past memories and recall them at a greater level of detail compared to their sober state. It can also help one retain new information that may then be more easily recalled once the person is no longer under the influence of the substance.
Motivation enhancement
Motivation enhancement can be described as an increased desire to perform tasks and accomplish goals in a productive manner. It can be best characterized as an increased desire to perform tasks, including those that would normally be considered too monotonous or overwhelming to fully commit oneself to.
This effect will often synergize with other coinciding effects such as focus enhancement, thought acceleration, and stimulation in a manner which further increases one's productivity.
Stimulation
Stimulation can be defined as any changes in a person's energy levels which are interpreted as stimulating and encouraging when it comes to movement and physical activities such as exercising, running, walking, cleaning, socializing, dancing, and climbing.
Thought acceleration
Thought acceleration can be described as the mental process of thought being sped up significantly in comparison to that of normal sobriety. When experiencing this effect, it will often feel as if one rapid fire thought after the other is being generated in incredibly quick succession.
Thought acceleration will often synergize with other coinciding effects such as analysis enhancement and stimulation in a manner which not only increases the speed of thought, but also signifigantly enhances the sharpness of a person's mental clarity.
Thought connectivity
Thought connectivity can be described as an alteration of a person's thought stream characterized by a distinct increase in wandering thoughts which connect into each other through a fluid association of ideas. Thoughts may be subjectively experienced as a continuous stream of vaguely related ideas which tenuously connect into each other by incorporating a concept that was contained within the previous thought. When experienced, it is often likened to a complex game of word association.
During this state, it is often difficult to consciously guide the direction of ones thoughts. This may result in one's train of thought contemplating an extremely broad variety of subjects, which range from important, trivial, insightful, and nonsensical topics.
Thought organization
Thought organization can be described as a state of cognitive enhancement in which one's ability to analyze and categorize conceptual information using a systematic and logical thought process is considerably increased. It seemingly occurs through the reduction of thoughts unrelated or irrelevant to the topic at hand, thus improving one's capacity for a structured and cohesive thought stream. This effect also seems to allow the user to hold a greater amount of relevant information in their train of thought which can be useful for extended mental calculations, articulating ideas, and analyzing logical arguments.
Wakefulness
Wakefulness can be described as an increased ability to stay conscious without feeling tired combined with a decreased need to sleep. It is contrasted with stimulation in that it does not directly increase one's energy levels above a normal baseline but instead produces feelings of a wakeful, well-rested and alert state.