'Visions link' to coffee intake

[bananas]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7827761.stm

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'Visions link' to coffee intake

People who drink too much coffee could start seeing ghosts or hearing strange voices, UK research has suggested.

People who drank more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were three times more likely to hallucinate than those who took just one, a study found.

A Durham University team questioned 200 students about their caffeine intake, the journal Personality and Individual Differences reported.

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They also stress that experiencing hallucinations is not a definite sign of mental illness and that about 3% of people regularly hear voices.

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[annabanana]

1. my daily intake is about 9 cups . .

What? Who said that?

[Why Syzygy]

2. Darn.

I would try this. But, I hate instant.

[Richard D]

3. Goin out to get my jar of Folgers right now.

[TexasProgresive]

4. I guess Jeanne d"arc

ate chocolate covered coffee beans by the handful.

[Silent3]

5. Is the particular mention of instant coffee relevant...

...or is that just for when you need to hallucinate in a hurry?

[moggie]

6. Perhaps it's classist?

I'm too middle-class to drink instant coffee: I only drink the real stuff. You lower orders can have hallucinations, but I have visions.

[Silent3]

7. Perhaps if you use this coffee...

http://most-expensive.net/coffee-in-world

...you won't have visions of God, God will have visions of you! :)

(Isn't it interesting how some of the most expensive foods and beverages are also among the most disgusting?)