Sleep. I drink coffee for the taste/habit - not because it energizes me.
I suspect I have some combination of ADHD and autism which might make me somewhat “immune” to caffeine. I sometimes drink a cup before sleep too and it doesn’t seem to affect me much.
For me 3 hours is exactly the wrong amount of sleep. I would be groggy for hours afterwards. In college my rule was I’d only sleep if I could get at least 5 hours. Now, some decades later, I’d take the sleep.
You can actually try both. When my husband is exhausted from insomnia, he gets up in the middle of the night and makes a cup of coffee, and it somehow knocks him out enough to fall asleep.
Coffee is a stimulant and stimulants can absolutely cause drowsiness in people, usually those of us with ADHD.
If I’m not tired I can drink a small espresso and the stimulation from the caffeine wakes my brain up enough to actually deliver the sleepy hormones (this is how my Dr described it to me, anyway)
If you can access it then it would probably be worth doing a sleep study, if you haven’t already. There’s a lot of reasons you may be sleeping terribly and many of them are fixable or at least treatable.
There are different forms of "your circadian rhythm is all fucky" that are actual treatable diagnoses. I'd agree with the other guy; get it checked out if possible.
‘Studies’ show that coffee only makes you less aware of your exhaustion, it doesn’t make you perform any better, so sleep is objectively better, but man, I will feel much worse waking up from 3hrs of sleep than if I just never slept to begin with
but man, I will feel much worse waking up from 3hrs of sleep than if I just never slept to begin with
Yep. That’s why I’ll take the coffee. With just 3 hours, I’m going to be groggier than if I hadn’t slept at all, and the caffeine is just a safety net.
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