Spent about a week going from too many cups a day (but cut off at 11-11:30am) to 2 cups only. Then about 2 weeks to 1 cup only.
The 1 cup only had 1 positive, 1 familiar weird, and 1 ultra horrible consequence:
Positive: While a bit tired from lack of sleep, I don’t have caffeine crashes in afternoon.
Weird: dreams getting more intense again; not _as_ intense as no coffee, but I can tell.
Horrible: I wake up, like clockwork, at 4:30 – 5am, every day. I know 6 hours isn’t enough. I’ve tested this on the weekend, and I can nap for up to 2 to 3 hours, so my body is angry or confused about something.
I had depression for about 2 days; was NOT the horribleness that was 8 years ago, but it super in the background, and I didn’t notice it till I really thought about why I was feeling meh. I’m sure sleep deprivation aggravated it, but passed like last weekend.
Despite intense workouts 6 days a week, I wake up early morning, usually from a stomach ache, but I can just tell my brain is WAY more ready to wake up compared to usual if I were to wake up in the middle of the night. Only once in the past 3 weeks of this happening could I fall back asleep till my normal 7am.
I was attempting this to be my first day with no coffee, but I’m going to try another week of just a small cup. I was using those large cups, which I think are like actually “2 cups” (I’ll measure later), and we have this tea cup which is barely 1 cup so… it’s a pretty significant drop. I can tell my body knows what’s coming and is fighting to keep it around. So I’ll give it another week with these little cups, then try again Monday. Hopefully that fixes this weird, new sleep problem. I wasn’t supposed to go backwards, but I have empathy my brain chemistry is just confused from decades of caffeine abuse.
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