That sounds fantastic if safe over the long term. If you are learning faster, do the results stick? In your case, it seems that the reward is worth the risk. Are you aware of any studies into the long term effects of microdosing psychedelics?
My first experience was random, when I tried a new, legal LSD variant[1], during the end of the pandemic, summer 2021.
I tried first ~40µg, while still finishing work (code).
Didn't feel anything so I took another 40 and then went dancing two hours later. At 80µg the LSD was just below psychoactive, so that dose was too high, in retrospect. I now use 40µ and that is perfect for me.
The only indicator I had, after the night, was external. Three followers came to me, out of the blue, and told me: "you were my best tanda tonight, thank you."
(A tanda is a block of three-four songs danced together, before you change partners).
That struck me as odd/very surprising, at the level of dancing I was at then. A comment like this was something I would hear once-twice a year, if lucky. But three in one night?
After that the praise kept coming from other tango people I danced with for years before, i.e. they felt the change.
That's when I started experimenting with it and it has just become another tool to improve since then.
People who disregard this I tell to talk to dozens of dancers who know me for years.
They didn't know about what caused it. Yet they saw/see and felt/feel the change in my dancing and particularly musicality (which was, until then, my biggest struggle).
Do you think any of this could be from improved confidence? It would be fascinating if you could figure out how to study this in a double-blind way with a placebo.
