A Double Espresso For Me and a Latte For My Giant Rabbit
Coffee is one of the wonders of civilisation but there is always some buzzkill trying to find ways to make it scary. Now too much caffeine might induce hallucinations. I doubt this will deter us hardcore addicts; indeed it might open up a new market for Amsterdam coffee shops.
To be honest, I don’t put much stock in this. I drink loads of coffee and didn’t notice anything too unusual on the way to work.
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January 16th, 2009 at 5:48 am
in my opinion there is a large spectrum of what can be called a “hallucination”. first you have the “giant rabbits”-type referenced in your title, i.e. full-on technicolor summer-of-love alice-in-wonderland hallucinating. and then there is the other type, the just on the edge of your peripheral vision “whoa… did i just see something dart across the room there?”-type.
i think that if drink enough coffee, the nerves and paranoia that might accompany it could bring on the later, but never the former…..but then again i suppose you never know….
January 18th, 2009 at 3:35 am
oh please - i’m at starbucks like 3 to 4 times a day and never see weird things, just have trouble sleeping at night
January 19th, 2009 at 2:05 am
I’ve never heard of this before and I think most people who drink coffee don’t overdo it to the point of hallucination. I myself am not a coffee drinker, I drink tea every once in awhile but like I said, never heard of this before. I think you would probably be at the point of overdose to start having hallucinations.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:48 am
What a joke, what next.. Last week I read that Coffee was good for preventing heart attacks.. These studies make me laugh - every 6 months its something new…
January 19th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I would pay money to see hallucinations.
I can’t live without coffee and often get flu like symptoms when I don’t have my fix for the day. My wife tells me it’s in my head, but she doesn’t get it.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
LOL let’s hope the credit crunch forces Starbucks and the like to lower their ridiculous coffee prices, on the continent you get much better, stronger coffee, for a fraction of the price.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Hallucinations after drinking coffee ? Oh Puh-lease! I drink 10 cups a day and never hallucinate, ever. Now excuse me, I have to take my elephant out.
January 27th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Personally, I’m of the opinion that this is someone taking the fact that, by the definition of the word ‘drug’, coffee is an ingestion method for the drug caffeine. And, as we all know, drugs are bad, mmmmkay?
January 29th, 2009 at 12:07 am
I thought that was the Stig at first! Probably not the coffee but just a Star Wars convention in town.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
If thats the price for feeling grate after every cup - I`ll take it! Come monkey!
February 9th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
if you want some of the best coffee, i invite you to my country: GREECE
regards
February 12th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
LOL I will blog for coffee, I will fix computers for coffee, I will do anything for coffee - even if I see Star Wars characters, or even Captain Kirk!
February 16th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I think they are mistaking the caffeine link with a sleep deprivation link. Caffeine itself does not have any of the chemical properties of a hallucinogen.
February 18th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I’ve been a hardcore caffeine addict for years now. Heck, I used to take caffeince pills all the time, too. I can honestly say that I never had any hallucinations or anything along those lines. At worst, it just increased my anxiety a bit.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I usually have one cup for breakfast, then sometimes in my way job if there is not a lot of people in the starbucks I have another one, I like to have a hot drink during I read my book in the subway, and finally when I arrive job I have the third cup! and I have never had even just one hallucination! I mean please!
February 20th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
well I heard side effects of over drinking coffee but its not hallucination I heard over drinking coffee is bad to your heart it weakens it well at least thats what I heard anyhow I think the storm trooper is the guard of the subway train I guess they’ve changed uniforms lol
February 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I am addicted to coffee and got to the point were I was drinking about 12-15 cups at work. I started tripping out and I was getting paranoid about everything I think that was one of the side effects. In recent times Ive cut down to about 5 a day, still not good I know but heck I love the stuff!
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
quotesguy, is probably right on an Army exercise after 24 hours without sleep, I was hallucinating that a bush was calypso dancer.
Seriously weird when you know in reality that it is just a bush.
Oh by the way I only had two coffees in that time as well.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I swear there’s a storm trooper in that train picture. *sets the red bull down*
March 6th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Great picture there. Thought that you manage to catch The Stic!
I normally ‘reserve’ caffeine for times when I really need it. I took a cappuccino during late afternoon and couldn’t sleep for the entire night. Can you imagine that??
C K
March 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
In my country we only get to read about how good coffee is for curing everything. I guess that our news are semi-commercials
March 13th, 2009 at 12:02 am
If you ride the Tube on a daily basis, you will see strange things without drinking a drop of coffee. Starbucks is getting absolutely ridiculous now btw.. there is no way I can justify paying that much for a coffee now.