<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mise_en_place</author><text>Be careful with this line of thinking. It can lead you to justify some extremely unhealthy habits. You&amp;#x27;ll justify it by saying it&amp;#x27;s fine, you&amp;#x27;re getting things done. But the cost will always be there, either physical or mental.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brimble</author><text>&amp;quot;Have to&amp;quot;, maybe not. Will perform better if they do, probably. Will be outcompeted by others if they don&amp;#x27;t, many of whom only did better because &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; used drugs, yes.&lt;p&gt;It took me half a lifetime to really come to grips with it, but fact is, winners &lt;i&gt;absolutely do&lt;/i&gt; use drugs. William S. Sessions&amp;#x27; anti-drug arcade game ads lied to me.</text></item><item><author>marcan_42</author><text>Am I the only one thinking there is something seriously wrong with an education system if students have to resort to drugs that keep them awake for a week to succeed in it?&lt;p&gt;I mean I&amp;#x27;m not exactly anti-medication but... wow.</text></item><item><author>ei8htyfi5e</author><text>I took it heavily in grad school. Prescribed off label for adhd. You can be in any state of exhaustion, take a modafinil, and an hour later feel like you just woke up on a Sunday morning after sleeping in. It’s nuts. The military uses it for fighter pilots. You can take it for days and only lose minimal amounts of reaction timing. At my peak, I stayed up for finals for a week straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep total. Don’t lecture me, I know.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it took 2 days in bed for me to recover after. Brutal.&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of that time period, my brain stopped processing information in the 30 degrees at the edge of my peripheral vision on either side. We were at a restaurant celebrating being done and the waiter kept teleporting into view at around 60 degrees off my center line. Very startling. Done with it now since I don’t have anything nearly that stressful in my life, but back then, it was a godsend.&lt;p&gt;Modafinil has a 15 hour half life so my main complaint was my sleep schedule was about 26-28 hours so I was constantly shifting. Adrafinil is only the active isomer in modafinil so it’s more potent. I didn’t like it as much. Even at a half tab it still kept me up longer than modafinil. Also modafinil makes your pee smell when it’s metabolized whereas adrafinil not nearly as much.</text></item><item><author>brotchie</author><text>Modafinil is a pretty amazing drug. The come down after one use isn’t too bad. But if you’ve been using it daily for a week, the comedown is BRUTAL: pretty much feel like you have zero energy and feel like laying prone for 8 hours.&lt;p&gt;Once did 48 straight awake on it and felt wide awake 36 hours in…&lt;p&gt;Distinctly remember the 1st time I took it. Was perhaps 8pm at night and I swore it was 8am in the morning and I’d just had an amazing sleep: felt completely wide awake and alert.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Experience with Modafinil</title><url>https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=100310</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcan_42</author><text>Maybe school shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a competition with winners and losers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brimble</author><text>&amp;quot;Have to&amp;quot;, maybe not. Will perform better if they do, probably. Will be outcompeted by others if they don&amp;#x27;t, many of whom only did better because &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; used drugs, yes.&lt;p&gt;It took me half a lifetime to really come to grips with it, but fact is, winners &lt;i&gt;absolutely do&lt;/i&gt; use drugs. William S. Sessions&amp;#x27; anti-drug arcade game ads lied to me.</text></item><item><author>marcan_42</author><text>Am I the only one thinking there is something seriously wrong with an education system if students have to resort to drugs that keep them awake for a week to succeed in it?&lt;p&gt;I mean I&amp;#x27;m not exactly anti-medication but... wow.</text></item><item><author>ei8htyfi5e</author><text>I took it heavily in grad school. Prescribed off label for adhd. You can be in any state of exhaustion, take a modafinil, and an hour later feel like you just woke up on a Sunday morning after sleeping in. It’s nuts. The military uses it for fighter pilots. You can take it for days and only lose minimal amounts of reaction timing. At my peak, I stayed up for finals for a week straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep total. Don’t lecture me, I know.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it took 2 days in bed for me to recover after. Brutal.&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of that time period, my brain stopped processing information in the 30 degrees at the edge of my peripheral vision on either side. We were at a restaurant celebrating being done and the waiter kept teleporting into view at around 60 degrees off my center line. Very startling. Done with it now since I don’t have anything nearly that stressful in my life, but back then, it was a godsend.&lt;p&gt;Modafinil has a 15 hour half life so my main complaint was my sleep schedule was about 26-28 hours so I was constantly shifting. Adrafinil is only the active isomer in modafinil so it’s more potent. I didn’t like it as much. Even at a half tab it still kept me up longer than modafinil. Also modafinil makes your pee smell when it’s metabolized whereas adrafinil not nearly as much.</text></item><item><author>brotchie</author><text>Modafinil is a pretty amazing drug. The come down after one use isn’t too bad. But if you’ve been using it daily for a week, the comedown is BRUTAL: pretty much feel like you have zero energy and feel like laying prone for 8 hours.&lt;p&gt;Once did 48 straight awake on it and felt wide awake 36 hours in…&lt;p&gt;Distinctly remember the 1st time I took it. Was perhaps 8pm at night and I swore it was 8am in the morning and I’d just had an amazing sleep: felt completely wide awake and alert.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Experience with Modafinil</title><url>https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=100310</url></story>