Long post, sorry. Aniracetam: what actually has human evidence behind it, and what is extrapolation from animals?
Two weeks is not enough time to attribute anything to a compound unless the effect is dramatic.
Most of the popular protocols are borrowed from clinical populations and applied to healthy people without comment.
Vivid dreams are reported widely and are not in the label because there is not really a label.
How do you separate the compound effect from the routine around it?
Baseline first. Without a baseline the after picture is decoration.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero? Vivid dreams was my main issue with aniracetam too.
Sterility is the part people wave through and it is the part that actually bites.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.
Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions.
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.