I read today that some research on students at a university came to the conclusion that drinking too much coffee can make you hallucinate. They were quoted as saying
Large amounts of caffeine also made people more likely to think they could sense the presence of ghosts
Now I had a thought about this, and the only time I can think when this may have happened to me was one night where I couldn’t sleep due to a higher than usual intake of coffee. It was about 2am and I couldn’t sleep, but because I had about 20000 litres of coffee sloshing about in my bladder, I decided to go relieve myself of a gallon or two. So off to the bathroom I went.
Hobbling along like a drunk weeble, I entered the bathroom with only the light of the moon lighting up the room. No, my bathroom isn’t in the garden or anything, I just hadn’t turned the light on because I didn’t want to wake the rest of the occupants of the house up. Of course, me standing on stuff and smashing in to things on the way to the can and shouting “Bloody hell…who put that copy of hooters monthly there” may have done it, but at least the thought was there. And my wife now knows about my magazine subscription.
I walk in to the bathroom and start to relieve myself when out of the corner of the eye I saw something move. Startled, I turned to my left and saw a milky white pale as you like naked fat dude standing there looking sideways in my direction. Staring at me right in the eyes. With his little manin his hand. He began to mimic my every move. Goading me. Abusing my senses. He was ugly too… And I don’t mean ugly ugly, I mean he was just disgusting ugly.
Like a big girl, I legged it back to bed and woke my wife up.
Honey…there is a ghost in the bathroom! I said. She asked me where, and we went to the bathroom. I pointed to the corner of the room where the ghost had been and she replied You mean where the mirror is? and walked away and went back to bed seemingly pissed off with me.
So maybe they are right, and the coffee would do this. I do have just one concern with the research though. Students are generally a little on the inebriated side most of the time. The material fails to mention if they had drank themselves silly before they drank the coffee. If you have to drink vast quantities of alcohol first, I am pretty confident that you see things no matter how much coffee you drink. Or maybe they were drinking liquor coffee! I don’t know. But what I do know is that I once drank so much that when I looked in the mirror, all I saw was me looking like a hunk of burnin’ love.
Yup, amazingly there IS enough alcohol in the world to make me look attractive! Who’d have thunk it!
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