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0 pointsroqetman14y ago0 comments

Similar here, but I've found that as long as I don't drink caffeine after 3pm, I sleep well. Any later than that and I wake at 3am or so. Made such a difference when I discovered this... I lost a serious amount of grumpiness.

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downx314y ago· 3 in thread

I must be seriously broken. I can even enjoy a cup of coffee at the bedside and still sleep. Not that I do that often.

Falling asleep for me is easy. I pretty much always wake up about four hours later. Then sometimes I remain wide awake for another few hours. After which I'm ready for sleep again. The second bout is pretty glorious. This does mean however, that I need to pretty much put 11 hours aside each night, if I want to play to my bodily demands.

My other half rather annoyingly insists everyone should wake when they rise. Which just isn't good for my mental health - or my programming for that matter!

adavies4214y ago

i'm basically immune to caffeine, afaict.

i frequently come home late, drink a diet coke or whatever, and head straight to bed. i've gone back and forth between drinking a six pack of diet mountain dew a day and nothing and never noticed a difference. i can slam two bottles of Bawls (160mg) or eat 3 Fooshes (http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/6e27, >300mg total) and still take (and want) a nap.

if i gave myself anything close the amount of sleep i appear to be capable of taking, i'd never be up to get anything done....

bryanlarsen14y ago

I doubt you're immune, just addicted. You say you can go a day without caffeine. I challenge you to go 3 days with absolutely no caffeine. Absolutely nothing, so no decaf, no chocolate. I bet it makes you feel horrible. If so, you're addicted, like the vast majority.

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terhechte14y ago

It may be the coffee that's helping you to sleep. Some dutch (based on the region) have the habit of drinking a good cup of coffee in the evening right before going to bed. I tried this a couple of times. Around 5-10 minutes after the coffee I felt incredibly tired and had a really fantastic sleep. It's as if the coffee helped me fall into deeper sleep. However, when I'd wait too long after having the cup of coffee, it'd take me hours until I could finally fall asleep.

mmwako14y ago

Nice to see I'm not alone :) it's impressive to see how different are our sleeping habits. I have to hack myself one of these days.

re_todd14y ago

I have to stop the caffeine around 5pm. If I have a coffee at 6pm or later, I can't fall asleep before midnight.

RyanMcGreal14y ago

For me it's around noon, but then again I go to bed at 9pm and get up at 4:30.

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