Re:How to make yourself happier in just a few seconds
by bugs on Friday February 26, 2010 @01:19AM
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Interesting, I can understand the relation to anxiety as when I have had more than a couple cups of coffee on a given day I really do start to become shaky and irritable by things that normally wouldn't phase me and have seen similar things in heavy coffee drinkers.
The dreams may actually have appeared because of your sleep habits being fixed as you were waking up with coffee and not naturally waking where your brain actually starts to change from a dream state to a conscious state (which could explain why you now remember them).
I don't think a lot of people realize but caffeine addiction is not very different from other forms of addiction (as to how addictions in generally work, not necessarily how much damage they do to you). So my headaches for not having coffee was symptoms of withdrawal from caffeine. I have learned from others who also tried to quit drinking coffee they had to deal with really bad headaches.
My main reason for trying to quit caffeine (as mentioned before) is anxiety. I think I have recovered 90% from my anxiety just by quitting coffee. I am also taking supplements like st. John's wort, which I believe helped me a lot too, along with heavy exercise.
Oh! And I forgot about the dreams! :) This might sound as an exaggeration, but I don't think I have dreamed for the last ten years or so. Or at least dreams I can consciously remember. The week after I stopped drinking coffee, every night I have been having the most vivid dreams you could imagine. Its amazing! :)
After dropping out of college, this might be the second best decision I ever made. I am so excited I can't stop writing about it. :)