post here when you've consumed so much caffeine that you want to move on to human blood

raaaaaAAAAHHHHHHH!

I know that feeling.

I once hallucinated that I was flying while I was standing in the photocopy room one morning: caffeine awesomeness

Once I drank a whole pot of coffee after five days without -- also ate about 4 or 5 donuts. I felt like I would spontaneously liquefy and coat the inside of the car I was riding in -- but in a good way.

summer of '07: working third shift, getting close to no sleep on the weekends, drinking that Orange Halo tie-in Mountain Dew...

Sunday morning I always had to take my friend home; he lived about an hour away. After drinking two of those Mt. Dews it always felt like my tiny purple car had somehow grown. Or perhaps I had shrunk...

A+: that buzzing feeling behind your eyes like when you get nitrous at the dentist's office...caffeine critical mass

xp --I serious would try to adjust my car seat bcz it felt like my feet couldn't fully reach the pedals.

hee hee

oh how i hope this thread to act as a reminder to me to never work in print media again

tho i kind of miss the 3pm-on-a-monday caffeine high

Too much caffeine puts me to SLEEP because I can't function and can only lie down.

A+: that buzzing feeling behind your eyes like when you get nitrous at the dentist's office...caffeine critical mass

listening to music in this state = godlike

smashed to bits. no rails. synaptic hellways.

listening to music in this state = godlike

Absolutely. While buzzing on my usual weekend drink of choice (gin + sugar-free Amp energy drink) I frequently come to the realization that HOLY SHIT THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST CECIL TAYLOR RECORD I'VE EVER HEARD OUT OF THE 30+ THAT I OWN...NO WAIT, THIS OTHER ONE IS THE BEST.

def the other one

yeah cecil taylor is exactly the kind of music to listen like this

like when you get nitrous at the dentist's office...caffeine critical mass

We get novocaine injections here or something. I mean instead of nitrous. Kind of feels like you've been hit in the face with a plank of wood - numb for hours and then ow-ow-ow pins & needles.
I don't miss my old IT helpdesk job where I survived on instant coffee made with two spoonfuls of coffee and three sugars per mug. 4 or 5 of those a day really puts you out there. I recall one time that a salesman thought it would be a good idea to hide the big catering size jar of coffee - three technicians suffering caffeine withdrawal nearly strung him up. Also there was the incident where someone brought in chocolate coated coffee beans. A colleague did too many and was giggling like a maniac all afternoon.

My dad bought me a bag of - not even chocolate covered coffee beans - chocolates shaped and flavored like coffee beans. I figured that since they didn't have any actual beans in them, they were decaf and I ate the enttire bag (given to me in one of those massive cappuchino cups) in one sitting. The unsettling realization that they were caffienated happened an hour or so later and I didn't get to sleep until the next afternoon.

And I had to take a midterm in the morning. I know lots of people like to pull all-nighters and study before a mid-term, but I was firmly in the "go to bed at 8 the night before and have a healthy breakfast" camp.

O man never take an IT persons caffiene away, there will be blood.

I once spent anentire afternoon downing cappucinos with a friend after breaking up with a horrible bf. The combination of caffiene overload and RELIEVED FREEDOM went to my head so much I had to drink some gin to calm down.

I've definitely had to smoke a bowl once or twice to compensate for overcaffeination.

it's like spending your entire afternoon anticipating EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE OMG...it's very tiring

when i have too much caffeine i start to rap. freestyle bitches.

I've been drinking a very strong Hazelnut today. After three cups I was buzzing like an electric football table.

drink some gin to calm down

IIRC most of the helpdesk team went out and got completely drunk that night so that we'd come down enough to get some sleep. Next day the place had the atmosphere of an old people's day care centre.

lol

this was me saturday morning

http://3eanuts.tumblr.com/

here read this it'll make you feel better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRViTmt0FsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDXM_FR43g

i love rappin' ian, let me say that publicly

wow, 3eanuts is (also) pure poetry

the lords day got me tapped

special stage receptor hellways. 12 hours since first cup, 12 hours til sleep.

Have moved on to supermarket-brand instant. Ready to give up my status as a Melburnian.

Nescafe or International Roast?

COLES BRAND

(i am serious)

you are hardcore, my friend

I didnt even know Coles made a coffee... ewwwww.

Tempted to have another espresso but its 4.30pm, this would be a Bad Idea right?

i don't have coffee after 11am

i drank a lot of caffeine today but never quite woke up. this means one thing: i'll be twitching and climbing the walls at 2 a.m. when the caffeine finally does kick in!

i broke down and devoured a bag of skittles at work because the sugar high is more instantaneous than the caffeine high.

skittles are really good.

The vibration of my life is perfectly attuned to the guitar break on "Burning For You."

Living for giving the Devil his due!

BURN OUT THE DAY
BURN OUT THE NI-IGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Uh-uHea5E

my hands are so light. i could outshred yngwie malmsteen right now.

http://vimeo.com/22001612

FUCK YES

also ate about 4 or 5 donuts.

Also I've eaten about half a dozen little snacky cake things with choc chips in them, and a couple of hours ago I drank a Coke. All of this totally not planned, but it's like on The Incredible Hulk where Banner's eyes go funny just before he Hulks out.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7BhcH-_Lqw/TTsHpJ0MLnI/AAAAAAAAERQ/f9UsVezE95c/s1600/bill+bixby.jpg

I don't know what the fuck. Maybe it's the different brand of coffee I bought from the grocery store. Maybe I'm using an incorrect proportion when brewing. But I am jacked up. Nightmares the last few nights. Eyes wide open. Feel like I'm about to have an aneurysm.

that sounds awesome. what brand of coffee was it?

Starbucks. Not sure what particular flavor it was. It was on sale. I'm pretty cracked out at the moment.

ok, i was just trying to be funny in xp, but that doesn't sound good. i bought some cafe bustelo once because it was $1.99 for a brick, that stuff made me want to rip my face off.

bustelo is gr8

hl i would take a few days off. or transition to black/green tea. didn't you say you were drinking a lot of yerba mate too?

The thing to do is to develop an amphetamine habit in college, then quit, but still retain a high tolerance/numbness almost to caffeine. I call this the "college method."

i wish i could get to yr nightmarishly jacked-up level, tbh. used to love that. caffeine doesn't have much effect on my anymore, even if i drink a ton. keeps me going, but that's about it. (achieved without cultivating meth teeth)

But in all honesty stop drinking that coffee. It does sound like my experiences on adderall which a doctor prescribed and it was the worst.

Starbucks coffee is nasty stuff. I've drank all kinds of coffee but that one has a strange effect on me.

xxxxxxp yeah, I sorta miss the days when caffeine would make me want to kick a hole in the wall and scream at the top of my lungs in someone's face. now it just gives me a gross feeling awakeness.

hl i would take a few days off. or transition to black/green tea. didn't you say you were drinking a lot of yerba mate too?

― clouds, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 9:15 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I quit yerba mate after Sanpaku posted some convincing studies showing links to cancer.

Mate never made me feel like this though. It was a really clean buzz for some reason.

i've read that it has more to do with the way it is cured and the way it's normally made (multiple steepings, drank at very hot temps). if it actually was a serious cancer risk wouldn't we hear of a cancer epidemic among uruguayans?

Here is the link to a study that shows it's not about whether the drink is hot or cold. He links to other studies about yerba mate elsewhere in the thread.

Bizarro Ned In Buenos Aires To Drink La Yerba Mate

aw no, lapsang souchong too? :C

anyway you can get the smokeless kind at whole foods, but it's about 3x as expensive as the kind you'd get at a bodega.

Kindly tolerate this quote at length:

The “mental-energizing” effects of caffeine reflect its ability to inhibit certain cellular receptors in the brain which ordinarily are activated by the natural metabolite adenosine. Via interaction with the A2A form of adenosine receptor, caffeine has the potential to exert anti-inflammatory effects on the brain, dampening the activation of microglia, supporting the protective function of astrocytes, decreasing production of beta amyloid, and warding off some of the adverse effects of beta amyloid on neuronal synapses and cognitive function. Indeed, most though not all recent epidemiological studies find that people who have made heavy use of coffee for a number of years are at decidedly lower risk for cognitive decline and AD as they age. In one provocative Finnish study, people who drank 3-5 cups of coffee daily in midlife were about two-thirds less likely to develop dementia as they aged. One recent prospective study examined blood caffeine levels in elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and found that caffeine level dose-dependently predicted risk for development of dementia over the next 4 years – none of those in the highest bracket of blood caffeine became demented over this time. Other recent epidemiology on coffee points to heavy coffee drinkers as being at reduced risk for mortality from a host of disorders, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, injuries, and accidents; some of this protection might stem, not just from caffeine, but from the phytochemical antioxidants in coffee. In light of current evidence, it may be smart to drink about as much coffee as you can, consistent with getting appropriate restful sleep and the concurrence of your physician.

OTOH, the largest study on coffee drinking and mortality to date found that 4-5 cups daily is the "sweet spot".

i have those sbux via things at my desk for when I'm craving coffee and don't want to drink the brewed garbage from work...last week I had 1 at lunch and another in the afternoon and then I was like HIYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA brain totally ready karatekick fite everything and everyone

it was a bit scary, so I scaled back

Engaging with the music of the Meters in a way that's probably unnatural for 5 a.m. Not complaining, you understand.

Getting up early and instantly putting on music is one of the things I miss most about being single.

Sorry - with coffee, obv.

'single with coffee' should be a daytime show on the OWN network

are you seeing some kind of savage that won't let you put music on???

This isn't a lot of caffeine compared to others, but last night I had 5 espresso shots in the course of 2 hours.

It was the most caffeine I've ever had in a day.

I was just on a commuter bus with Meters on my ipod and jacked to the gills on iced coffee. Plus people kept giving me free caffeine through the day. I'm still pretty good, to be honest!

I'm probably going to sound like a bit of a lightweight, but I've had a 500ml can of Emerge, a large Twix, and a coffee. Now I'm listening to Porn Sword Tobacco and it feels like my head's floating separate from my body.

listening to music in this state = godlike

fuck yes

My tolerance for caffeine seems to have gone way up in the last six months. Now normally I only have like a can of Red Bull or similar a day, so this is not my regular daily consumption, but on Friday I had a 250ml can of Red Bull on the way to work, a 330ml bottle of Lucozade at lunch, and a 500ml can of Relentless on the way to the bus station after work. The funny thing is that I didn't even realise until Saturday morning when I totalled it up, and the caffeine hadn't even pierced the dull exhaustion I feel at my shitarse IT Support job most days.

I mean two years ago that much caffeine would have put me in RARARAGAAAH Henry Rollins rage mode.

^^^ ah those halcyon days when energy drinks in the UK were all sugar instead of half sugar/half sweetener.

Meanwhile, today I drank a Monster Energy (black can green logo) and it tasted like liquid soap or possibly the cheapest fucking gumballs.

My tolerance for caffeine seems to have gone way up in the last six months.

Now try going cold turkey for a week and see how you feel.

I have a couple of times in the last two years. There are all kinds of warnings about headaches from caffeine withdrawal but I didn't notice any effects. Someone at work was talking about how they drink a small can of Red Bull and basically don't feel any different while one of their colleagues reported getting the jitters from the same amount of caffeine. Certainly I am a long way from where I was upthread five years ago - drinking a weak Red Bull knock-off and a coffee and feeling like I'm stuck to the ceiling? Not any more. Although I have to say that the Monster Energy has a pleasant light background buzz. Pity that it tastes like my anti-dandruff shampoo smells.