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Do Japanese vending machines secretly judge us?

KoiSamurai

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Every time I buy my 3rd can of Boss Coffee at midnight, I swear the vending machine looks disappointed.
Anyone else feel like Japan's machines have personalities? Or do I just need more sleep?
 
mdchachi said:
Drinking caffeinated coffee at midnight won't help your sleep.
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Unless you work night shifts…

I could drink a couple of espressos before bed with no effect and sleep just fine. I must have the CYP1A2 gene which means I metabolise caffeine very quickly and/or don't have the required number of receptors in my brain to give me that buzz and wakefulness. I drink 568ml of coffee in the morning just because I like the taste but that's all for the rest of the day. Once I drank three large, strong coffees in a hotel at breakfast, trained at an Iai seminar and had disturbing palpitations but that's all I've ever experienced. When I was a PhD student, doing interminably dull data gathering and analysis in a darkened lab I noticed a jar of pure caffeine crystals on the shelf of other reagents. I was tempted to eat a teaspoonful to keep alert but after a few back -of-an-envelope calculations, realised that'd kill me very quickly!
 
If I drink caffeine in the evening, I don't necessarily have trouble sleeping but the problem is that I don't really feel like sleeping so I may be up until 1 or 2 before I realize I need to go to bed. Once I'm in bed, I'll fall asleep. But I have noticed if I drink coffee regularly I'll get caffeine withdrawal headaches when I skip a day. So now I drink decaf almost exclusively. And then I'll have an afternoon Coca-Cola pick me up after lunch to help get me back to a functioning level. So that means I'm getting about 34mg of caffeine/day which seems to be low enough not to cause the caffeine withdrawal headache.
 
KoiSamurai said:
Every time I buy my 3rd can of Boss Coffee at midnight, I swear the vending machine looks disappointed.
Anyone else feel like Japan's machines have personalities? Or do I just need more sleep?
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It's probably disappointed that you're only on can #3. Vending machines need your business, you know!
 
mdchachi said:
If I drink caffeine in the evening, I don't necessarily have trouble sleeping but the problem is that I don't really feel like sleeping so I may be up until 1 or 2 before I realize I need to go to bed.
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So it makes you forgetful…?
mdchachi said:
Once I'm in bed, I'll fall asleep.
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Ononism helps…
mdchachi said:
But I have noticed if I drink coffee regularly I'll get caffeine withdrawal headaches when I skip a day.
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They are terrible…not excruciating, just nigglingly annoying.
mdchachi said:
So now I drink decaf almost exclusively.
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You know they extract the caffeine with plutonium and ebola virus?
mdchachi said:
And then I'll have an afternoon Coca-Cola pick me up after lunch to help get me back to a functioning level. So that means I'm getting about 34mg of caffeine/day which seems to be low enough not to cause the caffeine withdrawal headache.
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I heard a great programme on BBC Radio4 about caffeine. The suggestion was that most of society is addicted to what is a psychoactive drug, but it's a 'transparent' effect that allows normal functioning. Fascinating.
 
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