# I've had too much coffee... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237 "2016-04-15T01:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/1 "2016-04-15T01:40:02Z")
“My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives…”. But whenever I have too much coffee, I become hyper but I… ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/2 "2016-04-15T01:42:27Z")
Ditto! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/3 "2016-04-15T01:47:41Z")
Sorry, I got distracted. What I meant to say that I tend to find it hard to focus on… hang on a sec… ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/4 "2016-04-15T02:07:51Z")
… on one thing at a time. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/5 "2016-04-15T18:07:15Z")
It’s a funny thing. My husband is like you - coffee makes him distracted and unable to focus on one thing at a time. With me, it makes me think straight and I can hyper-focus on a single task and see it through to the end. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/6 "2016-04-15T18:09:50Z")
I avoid caffeine because it makes me jittery. Just the right amount gives me an edge and I can focus better but just a bit beyond that makes me a blathering idiot who has boundless energy but can’t get anything useful done. Just too hard to tune the dosage so I just avoid it. I also have to be careful of theobromine. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/7 "2016-04-15T20:19:53Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > too much coffee These words make no sense together. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/8 "2016-04-15T20:49:35Z")
One more cup of coffee before I go. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/9 "2016-04-15T23:20:02Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > These words make no sense together. [This guy](http://www.tmcm.com/tmcm/) would disagree. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/10 "2016-04-16T18:47:17Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > These words make no sense together. I agree! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/11 "2016-04-16T20:33:34Z")
I don’t drink coffee, and I have a pretty high caffeine tolerance. Nonetheless, I have managed to overcaffeinate at least once. From what I am told, it apparently induced a state of hyperfocus in which I figured out how to perform a very tricky bit of calculus, then taught it to others (at about a thousand words a minute). I have no memory at all of that part of the evening, but I knew how to do the calculus on an exam the next day, despite the fact that my last accessible memory was of being frustrated that I didn’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/12 "2016-04-17T02:12:19Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > “My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives…”. God darnit, Princhester, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/13 "2016-04-17T14:09:31Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I’ve had too much coffee… I did not know this was possible. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-too-much-coffee/752237/14 "2016-04-17T17:49:56Z")
I am CORNHOLIO!!!