Next to good old caffeine, racetams are the oldest and most widely recognized nootropics substance, and Piracetam is the oldest and most well studied of the bunch. I first started taking piracetam about eight years ago and at that time I was looking for a cognitive benefit, and while I did find some benefits, for example, the first time I took it I then went to a local bar that used to make really good fish and chips (it has sold and they are now shit), it was very busy almost all the tables were occupied. I noticed subtleties in the color of the wood door that I had never noticed before. It was as if someone turned the vibrance knob up on the world television set. The second thing I noticed was that I could follow half a dozen conversations at half a dozen different tables simultaneously. The last thing was that I could remember a few more digits in a digit string memory test, enough to remember a ten digit telephone number sometimes heard several days before. But that was...