Study: Too Much Coffee Can Lead to Hallucinations

ABC ^ | 6/7/2011

[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

[max americana]

My 6th coffee today says that obama..

[NoCmpromiz]

post my coffee instructions

Use my instructions instead. You refuse to even sample mine. Wimp...

[Tainan]

So, the way I’m reading this is that drinking a lot of coffee will improve ones hearing....I’m good with that.

[Tucker39]

As a precaution, I guess I’d better have a safety inspection done on my car.
I brake for hallucinations! ;oD

[Falconspeed]

drinking five cups or more a day of coffee can cause hallucinations.

Maybe it takes five cups to realized that you've had at least one. Ten cups to learn that you've apparently had two...

[Hang'emAll]

9 of the 10 voices in my head told me to clean my guns today.

[EQAndyBuzz]

We have pots of coffee brought into our morning meetings.

That explains the thumb sucking, fly squatting and drum circles.

[Thrownatbirth]

Five cups? Doesn't affect me a bit.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

At La Trobe univeristy, they have seperate toilets for moslem. You need a special moslem security card to get in. That isn’t a hallucination.

[Roccus]

Please send Harvey home when you’re done with him.

[sheana]

There should be a choir going on in my head.

[Slings and Arrows]

Lack of coffee can lead to violence.

[wyokostur]

What about those of us who measure by the pot??

[TheMom]

Another new study conducted by heavy caffeine users concluded that non-coffee-drinkers suffered from low-level hearing impairment.

What? Speak up, I can't hear you.

[jmacusa]

Ok. I think that was why he wanted to go out.It’s cool though, I’m talking to Jerry Garcia, on the phone, from Heaven. Says he’s going to let me talk to Elvis next!

[Grizzled Bear]

Lack of coffee can lead to violence.

Help us Darksheare

You're our only hope

[Mad Dawg]

In all seriousness, I've had those hallucinations for years. And I'm perfectly all -- DON'T STEP ON THE CRACKS! phew! - perfectly all right.

Seriously, I have had the auditory hallucinations, but I loves my coffee.

[glock rocks]

I say we nuke it from orbit.

[Slings and Arrows]

The researchers are just jealous because the voices won’t talk to them.

[arthurus]

I didn’t experience any of that back when I was drinking multiples of that amount. It did lead to migraines, though and I had to strictly limit my intake thereafter.