When you first wake up, are your thoughts jumbled?

[DurocShark]

I'm curious to see if it's my ADD or if it happens to everyone.

When I first wake up, particularly if I wake up suddenly (alarm, baby crying, etc), I have like 100 disconnected thoughts racing around my head. Songs, bits of conversation, etc. It takes an average of 30 minutes for me to be able to rein in the thought process and hold onto one particular thought.

It actually helps if I go sit in front of the computer for a few minutes (hence my 3 and 4am logins here).

Does this happen to you? If so, do you have a trick to share that helps you get down to one or two thoughts at a time?

 

[NinjaGnome]

Nope, thoughts are clear as can be.

 

[Cooljt1]

dude, i can't think properly in the morning...i run around my room wondering wtf is going on and forget what i am trying to do.

 

[Nocturnal]

I just wake up and usually piss or go on the computer to check my e-mail. I used to have racing thoughts before I got my OCD treated.

 

[PatboyX]

i cant do jack in the morning until i shower. the only thing in my brain at that hour are songs. for some reason, my head pops off the pillow with a song stuck in it every morning. this morning it was "She"

lucky me!

 

[ndee]

my first thought is: I wanna get up in 1 minute... please.... no really, I WILL get up in 1 minute..... *sleep*

 

[Chaotic42]

Man, I used to be like that. *Constant* thoughts. Billions of thoughts. I couldn't sleep when I was younger. That still happens, but not to the extent it used to. I've kind of learned to control it. If I need to think about a lot of stuff I can, if I need to focus I can.

 

[tweakmm]

Always thoughts jumbled the my morning in are. :Q

 

[skace]

Every morning I wake up and go "work ". It's like clockwork. The only other thoughts are usually about whatever I did right before going to sleep (a website I was browsing, game I was playing, movie I was watching or person I was talking to). I can usually continue a thought from when I go to bed till when I wake up (IE go to bed thinking about how to write a piece of code and wake up thinking the same thought).

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I just wake up and usually piss or go on the computer to check my e-mail. I used to have racing thoughts before I got my OCD treated.

I read that quickly and thought you said piss ON the computer

 

[Demon-Xanth]

When I woke up this morning, it was because our dog REALLY wanted to go out and go to the bathroom. I open the front door, the dog runs out. And there's a horse on the lawn. Sure, I was a little bit suprized, but not that suprized. So I'm not sure if my thoughts are jumbled or not.

 

[whaleskinrug]

No. But my SO takes between 30 minutes and an hour to awaken. I swear! He walks around in a daze and looks truly miserable, can't communicate clearly, etc. Then he suddenly is awake and happy, able to focus

 

[SWScorch]

I don't even think in the morning. However, when I wake up, I always have a song running through my head, and usually it's a song I haven't heard in quite a while. And it's very difficult for me to communicate; all I can manage are gutteral grunts. I don't really think; I just walk around in a daze. I can barely dress myself in the morning.

And as for my thoughts when I *first* wake up, it's more of just an instictive reaction to light, and I bury my head under the covers and fall back asleep. I think I turn into a slug or an anelid when I sleep.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I'm curious to see if it's my ADD or if it happens to everyone.

When I first wake up, particularly if I wake up suddenly (alarm, baby crying, etc), I have like 100 disconnected thoughts racing around my head. Songs, bits of conversation, etc. It takes an average of 30 minutes for me to be able to rein in the thought process and hold onto one particular thought.

It actually helps if I go sit in front of the computer for a few minutes (hence my 3 and 4am logins here).

Does this happen to you? If so, do you have a trick to share that helps you get down to one or two thoughts at a time?

That happens to me, but only for about 5 minutes. My mind is racing wildly when I first wake up IF I wake up wide awake and on my own. If I'm awakened in the middle of a deep sleep by outside forces, it isn't like that. Then my mind is muddy.

 

[Schadenfroh]

i love mornings, i wake up and have a momenty of bliss right before my dark inner pain returns to torment me, day and night it burns my soul, cept for that wonderfull minute of morning bliss before i rember all my problems

 

[Beattie]

No, my thoughts in the morning are a very clear, "Holy crap! I dont want to go to work today"

 

No, but I do think much more clearly after my first, second and third cups of java.

 

[dighn]

no but sometimes i wake up confused b/c i just woke up from a dream. that feeling can linger for quite a while.

 

[imported_Papi]

Sometimes I get that. Mostly only if I'm dreaming and woken up abruptly. Which is probably what happening to you. There is a pattern in which we sleep and if you don't allow the cycle to complete itself then you can wake up feeling as you do.

Search online for information about sleeping and the side effects of not getting proper sleep.

Here is just one of the sites I found.
Maintaining Proper Sleep

 

[TechBoyJK]

I have a cd called Brain Power. Before I get out of bed I listen to the cd in my headphones for 10-20 minutes. I'm insane when i first wake up, but after the cd, its all good. the cd is just frequencies that help me focus.

 

[acemcmac]

Just imagine that interruption coming from drunken ?college? kids pounding on your door at 3am all worried about missing their 11am class while you?re worried about missing 6am work. I swear there have been more than one occasion where if I had a gun, nothing in that jumble of thoughts you speak of would have kept me from emptying a clip down the hall.

Mabye I just don?t belong in ?college? with:

a steady IT/Lab job that would be 50k + full health if I ever went fulltime
my own late model mustang (paid by my own name) and a clear 30,000$ credit line
this dream-turned-reality of a computer?

the trauma of an 18 year-old?s jumbled morning thoughts? if it wasnt for WSJ morning delivery and good coffe... I'd just loose it

 

when i first wake up, i can't even figure out how to turn off my alarm.
after i check my email i'm ok though.

 

[DurocShark]

So it's not just me. Whew. heh

 

[Spamela]

i have one thought, "bathroom," then "OMG, it's 4AM & i have to go to the gym."