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Study: Too Much Coffee Can Lead to Hallucinations
ABC ^ | 6/7/2011

Posted on 06/07/2011 5:21:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A new study shows drinking five cups or more a day of coffee can cause hallucinations. The study claims it causes people to hear sounds and voices that don't really exist.

Researchers at La Trobe University in Australia played a "fuzzy sound" for 92 study participants; those who were very

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
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1 posted on 06/07/2011 5:21:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I should be hearing a steady chorus of voices.


2 posted on 06/07/2011 5:23:46 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

I’ve been obeying those voices for years.


3 posted on 06/07/2011 5:25:35 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: nickcarraway

The voices of reason.


4 posted on 06/07/2011 5:27:09 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve wondered for some time why my wife says I said things I never said. Now I understand.


5 posted on 06/07/2011 5:27:11 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (minds change)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m reading this at Starbucks.
WHOOOAAAA-—did that plant in the corner just slide over
to the Produce Department>>>>?????


6 posted on 06/07/2011 5:27:11 PM PDT by supremedoctrine (BURMA SHAVE! (sorry you missed the first four taglines))
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To: nickcarraway

Caffiene is a huge dependency. It takes about 6 weeks to come off a moderate dose.


7 posted on 06/07/2011 5:28:52 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: nickcarraway

I drink so much I have grown in Brazil stamped on my butt.


8 posted on 06/07/2011 5:29:50 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: nickcarraway

>> A new study shows drinking five cups or more a day of coffee can cause hallucinations.

Hallucinations are fun! I like hallucinations. Reality pales in comparison. I think I’ll have another cup.


9 posted on 06/07/2011 5:31:57 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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Brilliant!!!! Let me add...without the use of your tax money...too much of anything will kill you! Including water...


10 posted on 06/07/2011 5:34:10 PM PDT by Hotdog
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To: decimon; nickcarraway

I cut back on the coffee cause my pet tapeworm, Obiwan, was complaining that his “new neighbors” wouldn’t shut up which surprised me, that he would even notice, cause I can’t get him to SHUT UP!


11 posted on 06/07/2011 5:36:18 PM PDT by bigheadfred ( I ain't scared, no, not me.....teehee)
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To: Darksheare

Ping!


12 posted on 06/07/2011 5:37:38 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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Is that so? Well, the winged guinea pig on my shoulder disagrees with him, but the two-headed monkey on my cup says it's something worth considering.
13 posted on 06/07/2011 5:38:18 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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Ha, I drink coffee by the gallon everyday! Am I seein’ anything? Nope! Been waiting for LSD flashbacks for over thirty years and have I seen anything? Nope. Gyped again! Wait, s’cuse me but my six-foot rabbit friend in the corner wants to go out... be right back.....


14 posted on 06/07/2011 5:41:38 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: Allegra; Darksheare
Pssst. SSSSSHHHH He hears voices WITHOUT coffee. But don't tell him I said that.
15 posted on 06/07/2011 5:42:40 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: mnehring
I drink so much I have grown in Brazil stamped on my butt.

You should have sobered up with some coffee.

16 posted on 06/07/2011 5:42:44 PM PDT by decimon
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17 posted on 06/07/2011 5:42:44 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Darksheare
Coffee Gargoyl
18 posted on 06/07/2011 5:45:56 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 866 of our national holiday from reality. - Obama really isn't one of us)
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To: Slings and Arrows

*ahem* ping


19 posted on 06/07/2011 5:46:08 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: nickcarraway

Hippies stripped my local Rite-Aid of NoDoz today.

Then lined up at Starbucks.


20 posted on 06/07/2011 5:47:50 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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