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Kava and memory?

kavalover

kavalover

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I am curious as to all of your experiences with kava and the effect that it has had on your memory? Regardless of short term or long term effects I am just curious. I personally have noticed a huge decrease in my ability to focus and pull things out of my short term memory when I am krunked. I was just watching Lost and was having difficulty following simply sentences of dialogue because I kept getting lost in the words, and then I just wouldn't remember a thing of what the characters were talking about. Though I've noticed no effect on my long term memory at all.

P.S. I am krunked right now so I have an awesome excuse if this thread has been made before (smiley: laugh)
 
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kl.metacog

Kava Enthusiast
I certainly wouldn't want to get krunked and study before a test, but I've found that a shell or two spread out throughout the day helped me in a variety of academic tasks, particularly language. I could converse with the teacher semi-fluently whereas normally I'd have a lot of stalling trying to find the words.
 
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uuku pi

Kava Enthusiast
Seems to improve my memory after it wears off. Do not forget where I put things as much as I once did on other herbal remedies.
 
krunkedout

krunkedout

Kava Lover
I find that it improves my brains ability to function on the spot as far as talking and forming ideas. But I don't think I would do so great with math whilst krunked. And it is an intoxicating root so sometimes you will get that whole 'getting lost in the words' thing, especially with strains like black bag and what not. But over all I can still remember that a mole is 6.022x10 to the 23rd power. So I'm satisfied lol because I used to be really bad at remembering numbers but I think kava has helped with that
 
kavalover

kavalover

Outsider
That's just never happened to me before. Not only could I not focus on a single thing last night but I woke up this morning to realize I had ended up going to bed in the middle of important tasks. For instance the oven was on, and I remember now that I was going to make some pizza. But I just totally ended up going to bed instead, leaving the oven on. The hell. That isn't like me at all.


In the long term, things have been great, and I notice too the improvement in memory since I started drinking. This experience was just, weird. lol. Not how kava usually effects me at the dosages I'm used to.
 
kavalover

kavalover

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metacog said:
People tend to forget things when they're heavily intoxicated, regardless of the substance :p
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Believe me I'm no stranger to this, but I wasn't heavily intoxicated in fact I was hardly really "krunked" - I had three shells of 1:2 boroguru since I had work in the morning. Enough to feel great but I just didn't expect that at all.

Oh well.
 
Prince Philip

Prince Philip

Duke of Edinborogu
I tend to remember more, and feel more, with kava. One of the more amazing things is watching AronRa's videos on evolution where he is giving rapid-fire visual information at about a frame a second and understanding it all.
 
Vekta

Vekta

Notorious Lightweight
Review Maestro
If I'm using something like Tongan Pride it seems to help. Any of the heavier more sedating ones and I don't even remember what a memory is for. ha!
 
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kl.grudge

Kava Curious
Certain 'heady' kavas crank me up a little and can make me more attentive generally. Body kavas have a much more mellowing & eventually sleep inducing (as you would expect) and I am sure my mental sharpness suffers slightly while consuming (however nothing like alcohol which really impairing). I don't feel it impacts my short term memory directly, however you may become much less concerned about things generally and thus choose not to concentrate as intently. Also I haven't noticed any long term impact on memory at all.
 
kavalover

kavalover

Outsider
My experiences with kava thus far have been the same as yours grudge. Not sure what happened last night, but I've been drinking kava tonight with all good times and no confusion. Must have just been a fluke experience. Or sosososomething.


Edit: Thanks for the responses by the way. I wasn't sure of short term memory loss and/or confusion has affected any of you during a session.
 
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uuku pi

Kava Enthusiast
Perfect!! I love this !! Why should I try to remember? I love kava:) Thanks Prince You never let us down
 
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