The wonderful benefits of coffee

[overthebow]

I used to have these coffee dreams, wonderful dreams where I spun stories in the waking morning hours. My dreams are fantastic blends of fantasy, celebrity and the most amazing color. I call them coffee dreams because they would happen after I had coffee the night before. Just enough coffee to lift me up, not enough to really disturb my sleep.

I have been laying off the coffee at night for the last couple of years because I am recovering from a divorce. This is like a three year hangover. I often wake in the middle of the night, and then think about how my ex fucked me over and get mad. This usually happens when I have gotten five hours of sleep, just enough to be able to stay awake. I try to think of other, more pleasant things and come down off the anger jag, and then it takes me a while to get back to sleep.

I obviously don't need anything to disturb my sleep. Last night, I went to a film networking meeting at 7 pm and got my usual evening drink, a venti drip that was half decaf and half regular. I've tried the all-decaf version before and it is more pleasure than pain to drink. I saw some sci-fi clips at the meeting and came home.

This morning I had the most wonderful sci-fi dream. I'm not a sci-fi writer, but this was so much fun. It had a nice narrative thread, great visuals, Susan Sarandon, it was all working.

When I used to have coffee dreams, I would lay in bed after waking and think about the dream, trying not to let the bits of dream escape, and then pull the narrative together around it. I am flying on a high right now.

 

[minsue]

Damn, how come my coffee doesn't do that?

 

[Blackie Malone]

Coming off coffee is like coming off heroin for me...I can't go without it,but I have tried doing half and half with decent results.

 

[TheEarl]

Damn, how come my coffee doesn't do that?

Yours didn't come in the same cargo ship as Colombia's other export?

The Earl

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't have that reaction from coffee, but it was interesting how certain anti-depressents affected my dreams.

On Effexor, I always dreamed of crowds. There were always a lot of people in my dreams. They were very crowded.

On Cymbalta, which is supposed to be similar to Effexor, I had very detailed backgrounds. I could describe the furniture and the color of the walls, the kind of cars I saw. It was kind of like the effexor dreams, but objects took the place of people.

By the way, whoever said you only dream in black and white is quite full of shit.

--Zoot

 

[wildsweetone]

Cheese does it for me. Cheese in the evening and guaranteed nightmares by midnight. *shudder* Blood and guts and running for my life from gun and knife wielding maniacs.


Caffeine withdrawal gives me migraines so I tend to avoid coffee.

 

[overthebow]

By the way, whoever said you only dream in black and white is quite full of shit.

--Zoot

I had a purple alien that was like the flubber in the recent movie. It came up around the head of someone who had tried to get away and the person's face turned into a white circle with very crudely pencil drawn features as the blob came up over the hairline.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

When I was fourteen, I started developing an ulcer, so I could not learn to drink coffee and had to give up tea and cola.

Once I got away from home my ulcer went away. I can and do drink colas and tea, but I have never developed a taste for coffee.

I have learned to talk the walk and walk the talk though. Otherwise, encountering a coffee drinker when their caffeine level is low could be dangerous.

I prefer alcohol. It affects your personality, but at least everybody recognizes that you are inebriated, and not homicidal.