Coffee or Gum to refresh the brain?

It may be weird,but I do both actually. My brain works like a computer. Coffee in the mornings is the like the BIOS in a computer that "starts" my brain up. I only drink coffee early morning and not again during the day. Chewing gum performs the `F5 function` of refreshing my brain that keeps me on te move and concentrating. I do about a packet of gum a day. Sometimes though I accidently swallow the gum when I am really concentrating to hard,hehe.

Hello, Sasalove, I seldom feel drowsy in the afternoon as I always take nap at noon time. On the contrary, quite often, I feel drowsy in the morning as I have a baby son to take care at night, and I need to feed him for at least twice at night. The way for me to refresh is keeping busying, I go mylot whenever I have time. I like neither coffee nor gums, I do not like coffee's taste, and while I chew a gum, I am afraid that I may swallow it if my mind are concentrated on other things. Thank you for your post and have a nice day.

I´m a coffee drinker. I haven´t chewed gum since I was a kid. I used to smoke too but I quit a year and a half ago as I couldn´t afford them.

Hi there mylotter, I dont like gums, but coffee is not for refresh my brain too. I like coffee sometimes i want it badly. that's it.You have a unique habit, hope you have good luck and nice day on your work.

It varries from person to person. For me, Coffee is the brain fresher. I consume 5-6 cups of coffee per day.

I prefer not to drink coffee when I am a little sleepy. Its not that I do not like coffee, but its just that when I feel sleepy, most of the time it is because I did not have enough sleep yesterday, and drinking coffee makes me feel stressed and forced to be awake. I am more into drinking hot chocolate or tea, sometimes eating. After knowing what you do, I feel like trying chewing a gum to refresh my brain, but I think chewing gum will make me hungry. hehe. I remember that one of my professor told us that it is better to chew a gum when you need to stay awake.

I guess it's a healthier approach to take chewing gums rather than coffee, right? I was quite addicted to coffee, and I definitely prefer coffee over chewing gum. I always like to drink coffee to refresh my mind, even though I am not sleepy. I had the habit of drinking a cup of coffee before I started working, I felt refreshed and it seemed like a "sign" saying, "Ok, start work after this nice coffee." I usually only drink one cup of coffee a day in the morning, but try not to drink any in the afternoon though I feel drowsy, as I heard that too much coffee is not good for health.

When I need to wake up or concentrate, I just drink something cold. It doesn't really have to be sweet or have some specific ingredient, it just needs to be cold. I can't even drink coffee or energy drinks, because I have an extremely low caffeine tolerance and they make me shaky and manic! Oh and gum makes me bloated... :S

I use ginger tea to warm up my body and microsleep to refresh my brain. You can do microsleep yourself. Just sit on your chair, relax, close your eyes, try to imagine something soothing in the eye of your mind, and focus on that and you will go to sleep soon, but don't go to sleep fully, let your hearings still functional. After 5-10 minutes you'll wake up and feel refreshed. Some people have even suggested polyphasic sleep: you only sleep 3-4 hours a day total and spread in 15-20 minutes of microsleep. I have never tried this, and I don't know if I can try this.

I used to take nap when I feel drowsy, if i meet puzzles need more thinking I usually leave my desk few minutes and take a cup of coffee to release my brain. Gum,just for cleaning my breath and tooth.

I have my own way to keep my brain working,that is I will stand up and walk around in my office then drink some water,or give some stretch!