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Very important to get your sleep. I recommend no caffeine 4 hours before bed. It seems like everytime I can't fall asleep its because I accidentally drank caffe
by bitJericho 11y ago
Very important to get your sleep. I recommend no caffeine 4 hours before bed. It seems like everytime I can't fall asleep its because I accidentally drank caffeine. I sleep 6 to 10 hours weirdly enough. It seems to depend largely on the previous nights sleep and the physical exertion I've done in the day.
- rimantas 11y agoNot everybody is the same. Caffeine has zero effect on my sleep: I often drink a cup of coffee before going to bed. Or have a can of Red Bull (I drink it for the taste, not for some energising properties which have no effect on me).
- rbinv 11y agoJust because you're not aware of it doesn't mean that it's not affecting you.
- chrisan 11y agoPeople often refer to having a cup of coffee to "wake up" or stay awake/alert. I'm sure physiologically caffeine is doing _something_ but I am in the same boat as him, I can drink caffeine and it never keeps me awake. Back in Lan Party days pounding red bull after red bull I was still easily the first one to bed by far (which is never a good thing to be asleep around a bunch of wired up young immature males late at night...)
- david-given 11y agoI don't feel like I've woken up properly in the morning until I've had a cup of coffee. ...of course, sometimes I will get up early, do some stuff around the house, drive to the shops, drive back to the house, put everything away, cycle to work, and I still won't feel like I've woken up properly until I've drunk my coffee and read my email. For me, it's all about the ritual of drinking the coffee rather than the caffeine content. I'm quite sure that if someone were to replace it with decaf and not tell me, it'd work just as well. Everyone's different.
- outworlder 11y agoPrecisely. The effects can also be different from what's expected. I've tried to stay awake one night, as I had a deadline, by drinking to cans of redbull in quick succession. Didn't seem to work, I fell asleep half an hour later. Thing is, a fly landing on the other side of the room would startle and wake me up. I couldn't sleep indeed, not by not falling asleep, but by waking up all the time from random city noises.
- jotm 11y agoDamn, your withdrawal must suck... I also can sleep after a cup of coffee. Withdrawal is insane, I often wonder if those new adenosine receptors are now permanent...
- bitJericho 11y agoAre you all drinking coffee black? Maybe it's not the coffee but the sugar if you use it? That stuff totally messes with me.
- codersteve 11y agoWhen you're addicted to it you just need a fix to put you back to baseline. So the stimulating effect of it goes away until you start having withdrawals.
- spyder 11y agoYes, peoples can have different sensitivity to caffein: http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-sensitivity http://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-sensitivity
- jere 11y agoI would advise against this attitude in general because even for the same person it varies. When I was in college, I once slept like a baby after taking an evening time 4 shot espresso drink. I tried the same thing a few months later and couldn't sleep a wink (this was the night before a final exam). I drink afternoon coffee all the time and am usually fine. I tried it 2 days ago and couldn't sleep at all. My unscientific speculation is that eating a light dinner that night combined with the coffee was too much.
- henry_vonfire 11y agoI've stopped drinking coffee at all and I'm way less tired. Before doing this, I wasn't able to start to watch a film in the evening without falling asleep.
- WalterSear 11y agoI tried that for a month. I was exhausted, until I started drinking coffee again. I'm not usually a heavy drinker either: a couple of cups, usually before noon.
- bitJericho 11y agoAre you all drinking coffee black? Maybe it's not the coffee but the sugar if you use it? That stuff totally messes with me.
- jon-wood 11y agoIt's definitely anecdata, but I only drink coffee black, and if I have any past about 2pm I won't get to sleep until two or three AM.
- mng2 11y agoMy experience is similar. If I have coffee or tea after lunch, I have trouble falling asleep at night. However soda or iced tea seems to have no effect sleepwise.