According to popular legend, caffeine is a powerful stimulant with 
increases alertness, decreases reaction time, improves memory and 
cognition, and decreases fatigue. It's also addictive, and if you stop 
taking it, you develop crippling withdrawal symptoms such as headaches, 
muscle soreness, joint pains and fatigue.

Question: Has ANYBODY ever actually experienced any of these effects? 
Either from taking the drug or stopping it? Because *I* certainly haven't.

At various times in my life, there have been times when I'm drinking 
several cups of strong tea every day, and there have been times when I 
go for months without drinking any tea at all. I have never noticed any 
measurable difference.

According to Wikipedia, the effects of caffeine are strong enough that 
if you take enough of it, you can actually /die/ from it. (Although, 
obviously, not from any quantity that you'll ever find in tea or 
coffee.) So apparently the drug does do /something/. But I've yet to 
experience any measurable effect.

Is it just me?

(Similarly, several people seem to think that eating large quantities of 
sugar results in a "sugar rush", which I have also yet to experience. 
Alternatively, maybe I live in a /permanent/ sugar rush, I don't know...)

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