Dopamine

Hello guys and girls of the NoFap community,

For the last few weeks I have been thinking about NoFap and what it really means for me and my lifestyle. I have been doing NoFap for nearly 6 months now and am experiencing benefits. But I am not writing this to talk about the benefits I experience. I am here to explain my personal experience of NoFap and how it helped me get my shit back together.

Most of you probably know that what NoFap really does is reset your dopamine levels. Watching porn and jacking off to it is not something meant to reward us. In order to get this huge dopamine boost of ejaculating what we really need to do is date a girl and invest a lot of time. All of this time and effort will then be rewarded, pretty amazing how the brain works to reward us if you ask me. However, and here is when something very important comes, I heavily underestimated other dopamine stimulus. The first months of NoFap went by fast and I did not have a lot of trouble with it. But still I did not feel as much of the superpowers as I expected to get. I now know that I was messing up my dopamine receptor not only with NoFap, but with many other stimulus in HUGE quantities:

1: Listening to music for hours everyday
2: Playing videogames every day
3: Watching YouTube videos every day
4: Watching Netflix every other day
5: I found myself randomly going on social media and websites in a search for new things

All of these things constantly gave me dopamine. To name one example to which some of you might relate: when I am in my room and sitting in my chair I suddenly move my arm to the right part of the table where my phone always is. When I rationalize for a second and think about what I wanted to do I have no clue. I only wanted to open my phone and do random shit. It was very extreme because I have been in a period where I work mostly from home. I really needed to make a change.

Have you ever had a day at work and your phone died during the morning and you did not get to read any messages or things on your phone until you got home? And when you got home, charged your phone and finally got to read them it felt just great! Or at least, it was a moment you anticipated. By constantly feeding the brain dopamine we are messing it up big time and I am going to change this!

I am telling you guys. Try one day without phone (only emergency calls etc.), no videos and no other bullshit. I had massive headaches the first days which is most probably withdrawal symptoms.

P.S. the key is to balance everything. Quitting all videos and all messages will not work because we are too dependent on them for work and what not. But the learning part is to realize what you are doing and not overload everything.


What do you think about this? I am curious to see what your opinions are