EM psychological state cycle:

1. can this possibly work?

2.holy ---- this is clearly working

3. huh no progress for awhile, maybe i'm just fooling myself and it's not working

4. woah, i can read that street sign across the street with my diffs, couldn't even see there was text when i got the diffs, must be working?

5. almost time to reduce, i got this

6. ugh, buying glasses

7. ugh, reduced, can't see anything

8. goto 1

Most of list provided offhand in chat, but at least three people can relate to it.

EM Psychological State