No Effect
Posted by scottjarvie on May 2, 2008
Yesterday on the way back from doing wedding pictures about 2 hours away I got super tired driving.
Keep in mind this is the middle of the day. 1-3pm happens to be one of the sleepiest times of the day for me.
It got me thinking about the things that people say get them “wired”
Perhaps I’m just not good at perceiving things but it doesn’t seem like I’m ever really effected by things that people say make them wired.
I’ve never noticed an effect from Sugar, caffeinated drinks… heck when I was a freshman in college i wanted to stay up and finish a paper and my graveyard-shift-working-roomate gave me nodoze… I took one, was still tired, took another and fell asleep.
I don’t think I’d notice an effect from an energy drink! Nothing…
So am I really numb to these things or am I just not cognicent to notice the effects?
There are some people that can drive non-stop and not get tired. I can’t drive at nights and I have a terrible time from about 1pm-3pm…
So the question is… what’s the deal with all of this? It’s a conundrum
May 4, 2008 at 1:16 am
I’ve had problems with sleepiness behind the wheel. I even wrecked a car once by falling asleep, so I’m especially vigilant about this now. Energy drinks have some effect, but not as much as one might hope. I’ve found it helpful to have something on hand that I can eat almost continuously, like Skittles or Starburst.
Sadly, I just haven’t found any foolproof cure, so on long trips I’ll usually just pull over somewhere and sleep for half an hour or more.
Surprisingly, this hasn’t been much of a problem for me recently. I have an hour-long drive from work in the wee hours of the morning, and yet I’ve had very little trouble. I guess it’s partly a result of successfully adjusting my sleep pattern and getting a good quantity of sleep daily, and partly due to my preemptive action–like I said, I have candy on hand, and I drink fizzy things (I find that, for purposes of maintaining wakefulness, as opposed to physical energy, regular soft drinks can usually function about as well as energy drinks).
So, I guess my advice, in summary, is: eat stuff.
June 18, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Embarrassed.