It doesn’t hurt my brain, but there’s a brain fog that kicks in eventually, that’s kind of like a blankness with no new ideas coming, an aversion to further work, and a reduction in working memory, so I can stare at some piece of math for a while, and not comprehend it, because I can’t load all the concepts into my mind at once. It’s kind of like a hard limit for any cognition-intensive task.
This kicks in around the 2 hour mark for really intensive work/studying, although for less intensive work/studying, it can vary up all the way up to 8 hours. As a general rule of thumb, the -afinil class of drugs triples my time limit until the brain fog kicks in, at a cost of less creative and lateral thinking.
Because of this, my study habits for school consisted of alternating 2-hour study blocks and naps.
This describes my experience, too: deliberate effort to think about something leaves me unable to direct my thoughts after a while, affects memory, etc..
I can sustain undirected thinking for longer without the same kind of exhaustion although that usually runs out in it’s own way and my mind gets quite and stops randomly coming up with thoughts or at least the desire to follow the thoughts that do come up.
It doesn’t hurt my brain, but there’s a brain fog that kicks in eventually, that’s kind of like a blankness with no new ideas coming, an aversion to further work, and a reduction in working memory, so I can stare at some piece of math for a while, and not comprehend it, because I can’t load all the concepts into my mind at once. It’s kind of like a hard limit for any cognition-intensive task.
This kicks in around the 2 hour mark for really intensive work/studying, although for less intensive work/studying, it can vary up all the way up to 8 hours. As a general rule of thumb, the -afinil class of drugs triples my time limit until the brain fog kicks in, at a cost of less creative and lateral thinking.
Because of this, my study habits for school consisted of alternating 2-hour study blocks and naps.
This describes my experience, too: deliberate effort to think about something leaves me unable to direct my thoughts after a while, affects memory, etc..
I can sustain undirected thinking for longer without the same kind of exhaustion although that usually runs out in it’s own way and my mind gets quite and stops randomly coming up with thoughts or at least the desire to follow the thoughts that do come up.