Comments on: Provigil

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:50:31 +0000

Hey now, Tod. Piney Woods Estates is a damn fine little mobile home community. And our meth industry makes us virtually self-sufficient!

By: Tod Kavonic

Tod Kavonic — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:14:11 +0000

Just as long as you don’t find yourself cleaning your driveway with a toothbrush in the middle of the night. Sounds good to me. I’m guessing it’s A lot safer than Meth, and not manufactured at the local trailer court.

By: Chelle

Chelle — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:56:45 +0000

So I drove around to every gas station in Tampa desperately stocking up on (newly banned) ephedra for nothing?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:41:07 +0000

Now about this “Radley’s favorite reader” thing. Is this a purely honorary title? Or does it include a cash award? And maybe a tiara?

By: roger

roger — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:13:13 +0000

I guess I’m just old-fashioned. My allnighters were fueled by chips and Mountain Dew.

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:25:31 +0000

I value my sleep too much to try this, even though (like Brian) I’m writing my thesis and could certainly benefit from more alertness/less yawnitude.

Maybe I could use it once or twice, but I really love the feeling of waking up in the morning, my face squooshed into my pillow, knowing that I have another hour to go. Then I resent having to get up at all.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:16:29 +0000

I’m with Keifer. I enjoy sleeping too much. The only thing better than waking up and realizing the alarm won’t go off for another hour and half is waking up and realizing the alarm is not going to go off at all.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:52:21 +0000

Sign me up!!!

What are the symptoms that I need to whine about to my doctor to get some of this heaven in a pill?

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:59:25 +0000

Radley, I’ve used it. I recommend it. No buzz, no zing, just not tired. That said. It doesn’t keep you from needing sleep. It keeps you feeling sleepy. If you take it too much, and sleep too little over days, you’ll feel your body aching vaguely in the background, and you’ll just sort of collapse from the fatigue. Your immune system will also be unhappy. But it’s not addictive and perfect for an isolated all-nighter.

By: PJ Doland

PJ Doland — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:38:53 +0000

Have you considered polyphasic sleep?

By: John Galt

John Galt — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:31:12 +0000

Radley -

I can see that you’ve never read Nancy Kress’s brilliant sci-fi story “Beggars in Spain.” Give it a whirl — it puts an interesting “spin” on the whole ‘world without sleep’ idea.

By: Brian Hawkins

Brian Hawkins — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:20:07 +0000

Pharmacologists generally don’t have that kind of access. And what we do have access to is so tightly controlled that any attempt to do that would be a career killer. Right up there with falsifying data (and from the Feds’ perspective, much worse).

MDs, on the other hand…

Actually, I’d really like to try it, too, as I’m writing my dissertation right now…

By: Kieffer

Kieffer — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:13:58 +0000

It’s expensive, but I’m sure the cost would be more than offset by the opportunity to capitalize wasted sleep hours.

Of course, I don’t consider sleep time a waste. In fact, the feeling of waking up and realizing that the alarm won’t go off for another hour-and-a-half is among the purest forms of happiness.

By: actually

actually — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:04:00 +0000

ahhhhh

better living through pharmaceuticals.