The forum is exploding with threads, nice! I'll add my small corner for notes as well.
I'm coming in from 2+ months of PRA. Like others have noted, it was very good. I was tired a lot. Really liked the aura of love side and that helped me in day to day family life. Towards the end my work productivity actually skyrocketed because I somehow got back that excited way of approaching the core of my job. There are obstacles to this but I'm trying to nourish it.
On to AM then. I started off with a plan to run one month but changed to the full plan very soon. It's day 6 now.
Went to the gym on day 1-2. Felt more that motivation or spark that I've been lacking there on PRA. DMSI gave me plenty of workout motivation. Got horny also and went for a PMO release. Not feeling it too much since then.
Dreams gave been very strong. Started very Bondesque: I literally saw D. Craig for a moment there. Maybe that was me, not sure. There was a super hot Bond-girl like woman who seduced me and we spent the night together. Then the next day (in the dream), I was feeling self conscious because she was too hot, like pretty sure she won't even want to talk to me anymore or that that she'd start wanting to but I'd quickly expose myself as non-interesting now. Other dreams had some sort of cinematic Narcos stuff going on, felt very interesting. In another dream a day or two ago, there was some situation with coworkers where every had their turn to say something and on my turn I started singing and put a lot of emotion to it and everyone loved it. That's breaking barriers in expression for sure.
Might be having a flu now so not feeling the best. Good luck to you all AM comrades!
Welcome aboard! Good to see you again after all this time. I agree, all the journals popping up are so beautiful, it could make one manly tear run down my cheek.
Cubic, of course.
Day 9
I was glad to start the loops again after the first break, was missing them. I don't remember the dreams so well anymore though one could've been training for socializing or being awkward and still there.
I'm not sleeping as well as before. Feels like my mind is racing. Couple nights back I got out of the bed and went on the sofa to read from 4 to 6.30 or so, then the alarm rang less then an hour later. Been functioning ok still. So far I've been playing the sub in the mornings.
I'm holding myself back less. Maybe even a bit too rash if I get BS behavior, though that could be the reduced sleep and other things. I could have one cup less coffee also... nah, I won't.
Day 13
One dream I remember: some a-holes were trying to start a fight and they were calling in some big angry dude, kind "I'll get my dad and he'll beat you up" style. Then some big psycho dude appeared frothing at the mouth and I went into a desperate all-out max damage mode. I think it ended there.
Today twice I was feeling really content. And what's special was that I wasn't alone either time. Feeling good about stage 0. Tiredness is real though; some days are feeling really long.
Third time's the charm with PayPal: managed to buy this stage finally.
Just a quick mention that I too noticed already a while ago I'm maybe a bit sharper at work and was thinking it's like Brain Optimizer but thought it's not in AM so must be US or some focusing effect. But now we know it's likely BO, nice!
That was actually one of the reasons I was hesitant on committing to this long AM/AAMTS run: I've never tried Brain Optimizer and thought it could be good for me.
Day 18
Had a couple interesting dreams last night. In the last one, i was in some tribal setting and there was a person (or just a head, I dunno) and there were these peeking holes like short pipes to the brain with a glass panel in the middle going in a horizontal circle all around the head. Then starting from one point, coffee was poured in the pipe so that one could not see though it and I started looking in at that point, then going around the head looking in at the pipes and each pipe has less and less coffee and was offering more visibility until supposedly after a full turn I could see clearly inside the head. But I couldn't just move quickly, I needed to be able to somehow make sure I can handle the different sensation (increasing clarity) of each pipe. I'm thinking it was about clearing brain fog, brain optimizer stuff.
Other than that, feeling good today after getting a good night's sleep finally. I'm more confident in my endurance socially and concentration wise.
Started stage 2 just now. Feel like I should write an update but not sure what to write... there is a lot but then also not very much.
Stage 0 was an opener for me, I believe. A feeling of new life, new opportunities somewhere in there around the time when I switched (prematurely) from stage 0 to 1. It must've been after that, then. Hmm. Anyway, I did shift to a new job and have been doing well at it. Exercise is way back there in the background but trying to do what I can. Been mostly focused on work and work-adjacent things right now.
With people, I've noticed often telling myself to imagine that people are actually friendly or have good intentions when I'm approaching some situations. Not that I'd actually believe this, or that this would really even make me behave that differently, but it does just let me be that much more at ease around those people. But mostly I've been really tired lately so its hard to judge how I've been potentially progressing beneath that. The crazy dream recall didn't last very long into stage 0. PMO I did maybe once during stage 1, though sometimes I've been reading some sex harem adventure books before going to bed (I guess those are a recent thing now, like those games appeared in Steam earlier). I think in several situations I might care less if what I'm doing is visible to others or not - at least I hope that's the case and I'm not just projecting.
Definitely haven't seen the anger issues I encountered the last time I ran AM6 early stages.
I'm pretty sure the anger issues we had during AM6 were the result of pushing hard enough to trigger angry resistance, but not hard enough to get over, under, around or through it. 6.5G seems to be far and away more capable of doing that with relative ease. On Stage 1, there was a period of irrational anger for me, but it lasted... 1 day.
Today is the first ON day of the seconds ASRB cycle of stage 2. I'm stating it like that because stage 1 only had those 1-day breaks and now I saw a nice contrast when coming back to it. So I was feeling kinda down yesterday but last night I remember wondering because there were so many dreams. Felt nice, sex drive was up, and feeling more positive. I've been doing very well today.
Stage 2, ASRB round 2, day 3
Still going good. Stage 2 seems better for me than stage 1 so far, especially this last week or so. I'm getting back into exercising a bit daily when I can fit it.
Two things that have skyrocketed since starting AM, for whatever reason: chewing of bubblegum and wearing baseball caps. Is that manly then, idk. Maybe.
(06-29-2026, 10:25 AM)LionKing Wrote: [ -> ]Stage 2, ASRB round 2, day 3
Still going good. Stage 2 seems better for me than stage 1 so far, especially this last week or so. I'm getting back into exercising a bit daily when I can fit it.
Two things that have skyrocketed since starting AM, for whatever reason: chewing of bubblegum and wearing baseball caps. Is that manly then, idk. Maybe.
Go gett'um slugger!! Dont forget to scratch your ass occasionally and "adjust" yourself once in awhile too !! ;-)
(07-01-2026, 10:44 AM)ncbeareatingman Wrote: [ -> ]Go gett'um slugger!! Dont forget to scratch your ass occasionally and "adjust" yourself once in awhile too !! ;-)
Ha, I'm always adjusting!
Stage 3, day 20 ( I think)
This has been the best stage to run so far. I was getting sexy dreams and such maybe a couple days in, and have done the PMO thing a couple times this month when it built up. But I think I got a "handle" on that habit again, so going to let it swell (the feeling).
So early month (of this this stage) was going good, then middle-ish I was really feeling down. Just took something heavily, after not getting enough sleep for a week, so my fault. Have recovered since then to about baseline, still not on the high that I had at the beginning of the stage.
Exercise has been really good, approaching what I did on DMSI but not quite as much. I'm doing extra manly stuff, trying to make the best of the time I have.
Stage 4 day 2
These first days have been stressful. There are plenty of reasons to be stressed so I can't say that this is because of the sub but still reporting that I've been more stressed. Not much more to say