'Visions link' to coffee intake

[jobob]

this just in ...

People who drank more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were three times more likely to hallucinate (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7827761.stm) than those who took just one, a study found.


Paging maillotpois! :D

[maillotpois]

Quit bugging me - I'm in the middle of a great conversation with Nelson Mandela.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Anyone who would drink more than seven cups of *instant* coffee a day would probably be hallucinating even without the coffee.

[alpinerabbit]

I didn't know you could have visions with living people. :D

[Aggie_Ama]

I find it rather fun to be hopped up on caffeine. I should switch from soda to coffee so I can hallucinate. :rolleyes:

[spokewench]

You can have visions with anyone or anything you want! That's the fun of it!:D

[OakLeaf]

I'd fix myself a cuppa but the giant bugs are scaring me out of the kitchen.

[SadieKate]

OMG! maillotpois is drinking instant coffee these days?

[maillotpois]

Yeah, not so much. Ever. I can only conclude that the study applies to coffee in any form....

[SadieKate]

I dunnoh. Wouldn't instant coffee have some nasty chemicals left over from the process? Or concentrations of chemicals that you wouldn't get from brewed? What is in that stuff?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

According to the article, this 'research finding' was based on 'interviewing 200 students'. Hmmm....sounds highly scientific! :rolleyes: Did they even bother asking if the students regularly binged on booze, drugs, or had more than 3 hours of sleep per night? :cool:
And don't students hallucinate whether they drink coffee or not? Ah, the good ol' days....
:D :D

I remember we only had instant coffee in the house when i was growing up. Until I hit about 25, I honestly thought that was the way coffee was supposed to taste. :eek: :eek: :eek:

[bluebug32]

I'd rather hallucinate about people stealing my bikes than have to down even a cup of Folger's crystals.

[jobob]

it was meant to be a joke

[snapdragen]

it was meant to be a joke



I'd like to buy a clue Pat.....:rolleyes::D

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'd like to buy a clue Pat.....:rolleyes::D

Let's buy one for the BBC while we're at it! :D

[malkin]

It was funny!

[jobob]

thank you :^)

[maillotpois]

It was funny..... Nelson quiet down!

[crazycanuck]

I just saw MP speaking to Nelson Mandela..;)

[Selkie]

Would Sanka have the same effect?

[snapdragen]

Would Sanka have the same effect?

I think you'd be talking to Pee Wee Herman......:D

[SadieKate]

That's scary enough to consider Postum.

[Crankin]

Gee, Postum brings back some memories. I never heard of the stuff until I was doing my internship for my master's in ed. I was teaching a summer school class of 10 learning disabled kids, ages 6-12 every morning. I innocently went into the teacher's room, desperately looking for a coffee pot/pot, but since the place was cleaned out for the summer, all I found was Postum. So, I boiled some water in the microwave and tried it. Man, was that nasty.
Lisa, your remark made me laugh. Did your mom call it "quick coffee?" Or was that just my mom? We had a real coffee pot, but it seemed like she drank a lot of that poisonous stuff.

[snapdragen]

I used to love Postum as a kid! My brother and I decided a couple of years ago to revisit that love. YECH!!!! Then it dawned on us, mom used to dose it up with tons of sweetened condensed milk. Add enough sugary sweetness and anything is delicious. :p

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa, your remark made me laugh. Did your mom call it "quick coffee?"

No, I don't think it ever occurred to her to 'brew' coffee. We ate a lot of instant food and tv dinners. Thus, instant coffee was just 'coffee' to us.

Most people make Postum way too strong and it's bitter that way. I was told my great grandfather loved it. :rolleyes:

I would love to have Peewee Herman over for coffee- I'd make him coffee whichever way he liked! :p

[spokewench]

I have very fond memories of sitting at the dining table with grandpa after the evening meal and eating dates and drinking sanka with cream in it (lots of cream)

I don't know if I really liked the Sanka but that taste will always bring back those really wonderful memories with Grandpa

[salsabike]

When I went to Japan in 1986 one of the things I did was climb Mt. Fuji. I stayed overnight at about 9000 feet in one of the mountain huts that are there for climbers. The people who ran the hut were incredibly nice. I was drenched by cold driving rain and they gave me pants to wear while mine dried over the charcoal pit. They gave me green tea but also took great pleasure in offering this American some instant coffee because they knew Americans were big coffee drinkers. And although I am not wild about instant coffee, I drank THAT coffee with the greatest pleasure. I have pictures of them somewhere with the tray of green tea and instant coffee on it.

[Biciclista]

it's a joke! what a relief! i was ready to do an intervention on Raleighdon :eek::eek::eek:

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have very fond memories of sitting at the dining table with grandpa after the evening meal and eating dates and drinking sanka with cream in it (lots of cream)
I don't know if I really liked the Sanka but that taste will always bring back those really wonderful memories with Grandpa

What a lovely memory!


it's a joke! what a relief! i was ready to do an intervention on Raleighdon :eek::eek::eek:

What's the joke? :confused:

[Biciclista]

someone above said it was a joke. is it not a joke? I need an intervention team! quick!

[divingbiker]

Hmmm, I guess I'm the oddball. I haven't had coffee in years, and never really liked the taste of it, but I like the ritual of drinking something hot in the morning so I have either Postum or Cafix (another fake coffee). Doctored up with soy milk, it hits the spot.

[salsabike]

What's the joke? :confused:


Now THAT'S funny.

[jobob]

someone above said it was a joke. is it not a joke? I need an intervention team! quick! Ruh roh, is Raleighdon halucinating? And if so, about whom or what? :cool:

[Biciclista]

I'm not telling, but hallucinating could be dangerous on a long bike ride.

[jobob]

Well, keep an eye on him. And have the straightjacket & the padded cell ready. :cool:

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

someone above said it was a joke. is it not a joke? I need an intervention team! quick!

Oh, you mean the whole article that started the thread! :rolleyes:
I thought maybe something happened with RD and coffee that was a joke. :confused:

I just had a good latte while waiting for DH to pick me up after I mailed some snowshoes. I don't *think* I'm hallucinating. But you never know- I'm having my period (oh the horror) :eek: so I might just pull a "Son of Sam" and think the cats are telling me to kill the neighbors. ;)

[jobob]

We shall await the news reports. :D

[malkin]

I like this bit from the article:

However, academics say the findings do not prove a "causal link".

They also stress that experiencing hallucinations is not a definite sign of mental illness and that about 3% of people regularly hear voices.

So it might be that people who have hallucinations are more likely to drink seven or more cups of instant coffee.

[Biciclista]

from Raleighdon::D:D

On my way in this morning, having only had a triple shot of espresso before leaving the house, I envisioned a flock of butterflies picking up my bike and carrying me aloft over the Duwamish Waterway. That was pretty far out, I thought to myself, so figured I'd stop at Cafe` Umbria and have another dubble shot. About halfway up the - I wish this damned pesky spider would get off the keyboard - hill on Western, I passed an entire Tour de France race team. I asked several of them for their autograph after I went by them, hollering "ON YER LEFT, SLOWPOKES", but all they did was flip me off. I waited at the top of the hill, and one of them got off his bike and folded it up into a little square that he placed carefully into his billfold before following me into Starbucks, where we both orderered 4-shot grande mochas, and had a rousing discussion about some recent study about hallucinating due to consumption of over 7 cups of "instant" coffee. We were both very grateful that we only drink the real thing.

I'll give up my coffee when you pry it out of my cold dead hand.

But I don't have a problem. I could quit anytime I wanted to.

Excuse me while I go fill up my quart sized cup

[maillotpois]

Fantastic!!!!

[malkin]

Seattle without coffee would be like...

well, I can't even imagine.

[salsabike]

from Raleighdon::D:D

On my way in this morning, having only had a triple shot of espresso before leaving the house, I envisioned a flock of butterflies picking up my bike and carrying me aloft over the Duwamish Waterway. That was pretty far out, I thought to myself, so figured I'd stop at Cafe` Umbria and have another dubble shot. About halfway up the - I wish this damned pesky spider would get off the keyboard - hill on Western, I passed an entire Tour de France race team. I asked several of them for their autograph after I went by them, hollering "ON YER LEFT, SLOWPOKES", but all they did was flip me off. I waited at the top of the hill, and one of them got off his bike and folded it up into a little square that he placed carefully into his billfold before following me into Starbucks, where we both orderered 4-shot grande mochas, and had a rousing discussion about some recent study about hallucinating due to consumption of over 7 cups of "instant" coffee. We were both very grateful that we only drink the real thing.

I'll give up my coffee when you pry it out of my cold dead hand.

But I don't have a problem. I could quit anytime I wanted to.

Excuse me while I go fill up my quart sized cup

See? It's his natural state. :rolleyes:

[SadieKate]

Seattle without coffee would be like...

well, I can't even imagine.Today, we discovered another local roaster in this fairly small town. I've lost count of the total, especially if I tried to include those in the really small surrounding "villages."

[cylegoddess]

Instant coffee is drinkable?! Wow, who knew!
Im allergic to coffee but if I could hallucinate a lycra Lance Armstrong stopping over with a free Orbea , and offers of cuddles or hey, scratch that - BEATING Lance!! Id happily take the symptoms!

I drink roobois tea when its cold, for some comforting in morning..I miss coffee but I hear its REALLY bad for women( from my naturpath and virologist)


My Dad drank instant( god know why) and when I tasted real coffee,I almost fainted.