[nunc]

Hey DIC, I'm just your typical college student trying to get a degree while working on a research project for income.

I seem to have this problem where no matter how much sleep I get ( 6-9 hours a night ) and no matter how much caffeine I drink, be it coffee, pop, energy drinks, etc, I can't seem to stay awake. It's a bit of a problem when I have a busy schedule and have lots of projects to do.

Does this happen to anybody else? Can a person become immune to caffeine's affect on being tired?

[BenignDesign]

It's a drug just like any other. Your body builds up a tolerance and it starts to take more and more and more to have the same effect.

[NeoTifa]

I use Nyquil to sleepand 5 hour energy to wake up. Still sleep walk until about 2 pm.

[no2pencil]

NeoTifa, on 13 November 2012 - 03:14 PM, said:

I use Nyquil to sleepand 5 hour energy to wake up.

Jesus Christ.... that's like the short version of the wiki for Chemical Dependency.

[nunc]

Whatever gets you through the day I guess

[DarenR]

have some kids then sleep is a thing of the past and so is time for yourself

[jon.kiparsky]

NeoTifa, on 13 November 2012 - 03:14 PM, said:

Still sleep walk until about 2 pm.

Wonder why...

This probably also explains your habit of knocking things over with your knockers.

[NeoTifa]

I'd like to think that was because they're so huge.

[AthenaDX]

I did that alot while waitressing. It was always so embarressing.

[no2pencil]

[jon.kiparsky]

Pichers? You want pichers? Pichers of knockers?

Okay...

Spoiler

here you are

[stackoverflow]

Change your diet.

Get off medicine and chemicals/drinks.

Exercise 2-3 times per week.

You can build a lot of energy...

[no2pencil]

jon.kiparsky, on 13 November 2012 - 03:57 PM, said:

Pichers? You want pichers? Pichers of knockers?

Okay...

Spoiler

here you are

ERMAHGERD! Crab Knockers?!

[creativecoding]

You can also consult your doctor. I found out I had sleep apnea which caused me to be tired all the time. 9 hours of sleep and I would wake up feeling like shit and falling asleep in all of my classes.

Got surgery done for it and now I sleep like a baby. There are alternatives to surgery but I found it to be the best.

Also, a plus would be dreaming. I haven't dreamed in years and the doctors said it's expected to be very vivid for the first few nights, which was interesting. And now I dream every night so it's definitely pretty cool.


tl;dr, if you wake up feeling like shit, falling asleep all day, sore throat/snoring, and you don't dream, you may have sleep apnea.

[ishkabible]

caffeine doesn't seem to effect me at all; that said I had these little caffeine sugar mint(like Altoids but with caffeine) things and ate a whole tin of them at once and got pretty hyper. I also drank a energy drink in about 2 minutes(not trying to chug it; just drank it fast) once and my hands started to shake a bit later. So I suppose that higher rates and levels of consumption still effect me.