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240PP wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:46 am I gave up caffeine a few months ago. I had a few weeks of withdrawal symptoms (despite only ever having no more than 3 cups of instant per day) and was disappointed to not finally experience the great awakening that the Internet promised me would happen with a life caffeine free!

I still have trouble getting to sleep but I’m sleeping a lot deeper once I’m there though. Dreaming every night.

Sundayjumper wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:32 pm If anyone has slightly lower expectations (!) and needs something to chug on a regular basis, try Amazon's Solimo beans @ £15 for 2kg. It's what I drink day-to-day.

McSwede wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:22 am My delivery arrived yesterday and I've had a few drinks now of the Cattle Market espresso and it's lovely.

Gavster wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:15 pm I'm working through a load of client project work today and the life-sapping ennui of working to someone else's specifications means that I am constantly constructing escape routes from my desk by creating urgent reasons to eat food. I managed to contrive that lunch was quite necessary by 12.05pm and afternoon cake was fetched from the bakery and consumed well before 3pm. Dinner is already knocking quite loudly on my consciousness and it's only four o-clock. And the client work needs at least another 2-3+ hours by which point I'll be running out of reasons to eat food.

Philosophically this is not really a moan, because it's entirely logical that eating food is an enormously more enjoyable use of time than working for other people. In conclusion, eating is far better than working.

Jimmy Choo wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:46 am

Sundayjumper wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:32 pm If anyone has slightly lower expectations (!) and needs something to chug on a regular basis, try Amazon's Solimo beans @ £15 for 2kg. It's what I drink day-to-day.

That's what I'm drinking right now. It's much better than it has any right to be.

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:01 am

Jimmy Choo wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:46 am

Sundayjumper wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:32 pm If anyone has slightly lower expectations (!) and needs something to chug on a regular basis, try Amazon's Solimo beans @ £15 for 2kg. It's what I drink day-to-day.

That's what I'm drinking right now. It's much better than it has any right to be.

I'm glad someone has backed me up on this I was slightly concerned that I'd outed myself as a pleb that drinks cheap coffee.

Gavster wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:54 am

240PP wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:46 am I gave up caffeine a few months ago. I had a few weeks of withdrawal symptoms (despite only ever having no more than 3 cups of instant per day) and was disappointed to not finally experience the great awakening that the Internet promised me would happen with a life caffeine free!

I still have trouble getting to sleep but I’m sleeping a lot deeper once I’m there though. Dreaming every night.

Caffeine is one of the greatest scientifically proven productivity hacks the world has ever created. It's totally brilliant for working and has very few side effects, except for stopping dreams, as you discovered. I've quit coffee on several occasions and finally realised that it's a complete waste of time because I'll be back on it within a few weeks/months, because it's awesome.

The last time I quit was on the advice of a Shaman in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest to cleanse my body before drinking Ayahuasca for 10 days and since then, I've not stopped chugging the stuff. I obviously gained clarity at that point

V8Granite wrote: Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:38 pm

Gavster wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:54 am

240PP wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:46 am I gave up caffeine a few months ago. I had a few weeks of withdrawal symptoms (despite only ever having no more than 3 cups of instant per day) and was disappointed to not finally experience the great awakening that the Internet promised me would happen with a life caffeine free!

I still have trouble getting to sleep but I’m sleeping a lot deeper once I’m there though. Dreaming every night.

Caffeine is one of the greatest scientifically proven productivity hacks the world has ever created. It's totally brilliant for working and has very few side effects, except for stopping dreams, as you discovered. I've quit coffee on several occasions and finally realised that it's a complete waste of time because I'll be back on it within a few weeks/months, because it's awesome.

The last time I quit was on the advice of a Shaman in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest to cleanse my body before drinking Ayahuasca for 10 days and since then, I've not stopped chugging the stuff. I obviously gained clarity at that point

I’d say a lack of dreams is a huge negative, a lack of restorative sleep I think is more harmful than most other things people do regularly.

Dave!

McSwede wrote: Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:59 pm I've finished the 250g bag of "Spire". Didn't really enjoy that one so won't be buying again. New bag to try tomorrow.

nuttinnew wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:21 pm All this talk of dreams but what fuels the nightmares?