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Seconding methylphenidate for #2, and (specifically) delta-wave-inducing binaural beats for #3.
I've heard good things about weed + Adderall for creative production, but never tried it.
Do you know of any way of figuring out if binaural beats actually have a stronger effect than just listening to random ambient noise? The idea's cute, but last I looked at it, there wasn't much research confirming the brainwave entrainment effect.
A binaural beat converted to mono sounds like a good control. I do plan to test this sometime soon.
Binaural beats as a partial replacement for surgical fentanyl:
http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/98/2/533.long
http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/97/3/772.long
That is interesting, thanks.
So it looks like a bit inconclusive for now. One publication reported an effect, the other study didn't find anything.
The studies were of different things... sorry, I thought I was linking to a study and replication. Binaural beats don't replace propofol for the induction of anesthesia, but they can help lower the heart rate in such a way that less fentanyl is needed to maintain heard rate/blood pressure within norms of baseline.
The replication of this study found the same effect, though not quite as strongly.