I see drinking alcohol as a way of borrowing energy from tomorrow;

caffeine nap”: Drink a cup of coffee or tea, lie down for fifteen minutes, and get back to work when the caffeine has kicked in.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup

Drinking coffee is like drinking an inverse yawn. I prefer mine with two spoonfuls of “I’m listening.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

I mentioned the caffeine. I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing the critical faculties into the dream state.

Taste: I always have a black cold-brew coffee that I sip on prior to the start of the session and keep next to me during the session. The caffeine helps, but it's mostly psychological, as I rarely finish the drink.

This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

There are two things in life that keep me motivated, a cup of coffee and a second cup of coffee.

There was coffee. Life would go on.

[...] everyone drank too much coffee too, at the wrong times and for the wrong reasons. They drank it when they came in every morning to get going, and then again in the afternoon to keep going. They ran on caffeine fumes all day and never fucking got anywhere. Then the went home spent and empty and crashed in front of the TV every night and slept away the few hours they had for themselves.