When you wake up in the morning do you feel refreshed/rested?

[shortylickens]

no

 

[Carson Dyle]

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWq1Z-J-EE *NSFW*

 

[Kaido]

When I wake up I always feel groggy, regardless of how much sleep I get, I always would rather turn over and go back to sleep rather than get up, and I continue to feel groggy for a quite a while in the morning.

I have found grogginess to be 100% tied to food. If you have a clean diet, you won't wake up groggy. What clean means to your body remains to be seen. For me, it means no dairy & no grains (I'm allergic to them). Everyone's body is different; the key is finding out what makes you feel groggy when you wake up. Being fatigued from either a lack of sleep, staying up too late, or working too hard the previous day is a different feeling from having haze-brain...I can still function when I'm just tired from not getting enough sleep, but I can't think straight when I wake up groggy!

If you have a clean diet (per your body's requirements) & are listening to your body for its sleep hygiene (aka going to bed when you first start feeling sleepy at night & waking up naturally), you should wake up instantly and be alert & awake right away when you wake up in the morning. You shouldn't feel tired or groggy or anything like that. That's the clear indicator that your diet is out of whack for your body's requirements of normal sleep.

I say this because I struggled with insomnia for thirty years and it pretty much ruined my life. It hasn't been until the last few years when I've gotten serious about finding out about my food intolerances & what my body likes for a bedtime & number of hours of sleep that I've experienced a complete 180 flip in terms of waking up groggy & feeling tired all the time. I am also sensitive to how late I eat - I feel a lot more energetic when I wake up when I haven't eaten within a few hours of going to bed, because the food isn't sitting in my stomach processing all night.

I can go on forever on this topic; the bottom line is, if you're waking up groggy, your diet stinks. It's an amazing difference in your day to day life to wake up feeling great & ready for the day. I only ever had that previously when I was a kid & would get to sleep in on Saturdays...I'd get lots of sleep, sleep in late, and wake up ready to run around all day. Night & day difference in my life (pun intended ).

 

[Imp]

No... even with 10 hours in bed.

When I need to be somewhere, I barely get 7.5 hours and feel like complete and utter shit, so 9+ hours is better.

 

[Carson Dyle]

No... even with 10 hours in bed.

When I need to be somewhere, I barely get 7.5 hours and feel like complete and utter shit, so 9+ hours is better.

Are you five years old? Who the hell needs 9 hours of sleep every night? You should see a doctor. Like tomorrow.

 

[OverVolt]

When I drink coffee it takes extra time to wake up in the morning.

When I'm drinking zero coffee I can wake up pretty much instantly. Then again... I have less energy when I need it... at work.

So its a trade off. You also need to "setup" to get good sleep. Turn out all the lights and make a point of having a bed routine as oppose to just crashing.

Its all about dem beta-amyloid proteins. Don't go to bed dehydrated, or buzzed... etc. etc. etc. You're probably doing it wrong.

 

[shortylickens]

10 hours is probably excess, unless you've been working really hard.

With that much time your body starts to shut down and its pretty much a guarantee you will feel sluggish.

 

[OverVolt]

I have found grogginess to be 100% tied to food. If you have a clean diet, you won't wake up groggy. What clean means to your body remains to be seen. For me, it means no dairy & no grains (I'm allergic to them). Everyone's body is different; the key is finding out what makes you feel groggy when you wake up. Being fatigued from either a lack of sleep, staying up too late, or working too hard the previous day is a different feeling from having haze-brain...I can still function when I'm just tired from not getting enough sleep, but I can't think straight when I wake up groggy!

If you have a clean diet (per your body's requirements) & are listening to your body for its sleep hygiene (aka going to bed when you first start feeling sleepy at night & waking up naturally), you should wake up instantly and be alert & awake right away when you wake up in the morning. You shouldn't feel tired or groggy or anything like that. That's the clear indicator that your diet is out of whack for your body's requirements of normal sleep.

I say this because I struggled with insomnia for thirty years and it pretty much ruined my life. It hasn't been until the last few years when I've gotten serious about finding out about my food intolerances & what my body likes for a bedtime & number of hours of sleep that I've experienced a complete 180 flip in terms of waking up groggy & feeling tired all the time. I am also sensitive to how late I eat - I feel a lot more energetic when I wake up when I haven't eaten within a few hours of going to bed, because the food isn't sitting in my stomach processing all night.

I can go on forever on this topic; the bottom line is, if you're waking up groggy, your diet stinks. It's an amazing difference in your day to day life to wake up feeling great & ready for the day. I only ever had that previously when I was a kid & would get to sleep in on Saturdays...I'd get lots of sleep, sleep in late, and wake up ready to run around all day. Night & day difference in my life (pun intended ).

Nothing is more important to me than avoiding brain-haze!

 

[OverVolt]

10 hours is probably excess, unless you've been working really hard.

With that much time your body starts to shut down and its pretty much a guarantee you will feel sluggish.

No you're withdrawing on drugs while you sleep

 

[iamwiz82]

First, how does it "Detect REM sleep"? Second, how in the hell do you keep your phone under your pillow when you sleep? That's usually when my phone is charging for the day and there is no way anything could make it through a full night under my pillow.

I keep it plugged in while under my pillow . Luckily I have an outlet near my side of the bed.

It detects your movement and can distinguish between awake and moving and sleeping and tossing/turning. I have no idea why it works but I can correlate what it says my efficiency is to my feeling.

It's a free app. I suggest you try it out.

 

[MongGrel]

Not really but I've been that way all my life.

I stay up late, hit the snooze bar at least three times in the morning and the cats even know the routine, the wife usually gets up on the second one.

I'm not a morning person, get to work but takes a cup of coffee and about 15 minutes looking at things till I really wake up.

 

[Zodiark1593]

The normal time I get up is 5:30. I often wake up several times prior. Around 4:30, I'm about as ready as ever, but if I take that extra hour, getting up is akin to pushing a large boulder.

 

[RossMAN]

no, close to never

Same here, although I do remember a few days ago I woke up feeling refreshed, awake and in a positive mood. Yeah that rarely ever happens.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm not a morning person, the more early I have to get up the more terrible and tired that I feel. Does not really matter what time I go to bed at either. If I go to bed too late I might feel slightly more tired but overall I'll be tired no matter how many hours I get, if it's too early.

I only feel refreshed if I go to bed super late and go to bed when I'm tired, as opposed to trying to force myself to fall asleep, then wake up with no alarm. Pretty much anything before 12pm requires an alarm and an alarm wakup is never refreshing.

 

[OverVolt]

I get a rush of natural endorphins 30mins or so after waking up. In line with about how long it takes for me to concentrate 100%. Must suck to be you guys. I generally always look forward to listening to the radio in the car.

When I didn't drink coffee it was 5-10mins to wake up. But it was more difficult to wake up early and stay awake if I had to wake up earlier than normal.

 

[Jeff7]

When I wake up, the thing I almost invariably want to do is go back to sleep.

Feeling refreshed after waking up:
- Sleep for 10-12hrs
- Wake up and stay that way for about 2hrs.
- Nap a few more hours.
- Wake up and feel fairly decent.
- Live with constant scorn for the brain that is biologically compelled to spend 30% of its existence in an unusable state, and which takes its sweet ass time returning to a state of functionality.
Damn rotating planet.

 

[rh71]

You mean when the neighbor's dog wakes me with its barking at 7:14am on a daily basis? No, not in the least.

On a positive note, I spoke with him about it today (left a note last time). We'll see what happens in the morning.

I think the only time I feel refreshed in the morning is if I wake at 10am. And since my kids are 6 now, that hasn't happened in at least 6 years. It's maddening that the dog wakes me up earlier than kids would.

 

[Zodiark1593]

When I wake up, the thing I almost invariably want to do is go back to sleep.

Feeling refreshed after waking up:
- Sleep for 10-12hrs
- Wake up and stay that way for about 2hrs.
- Nap a few more hours.
- Wake up and feel fairly decent.
- Live with constant scorn for the brain that is biologically compelled to spend 30% of its existence in an unusable state, and which takes its sweet ass time returning to a state of functionality.
Damn rotating planet.

So, uhh, Chronic Procrastination then?

 

[Carson Dyle]

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
- W. C. Fields

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- Frank Sinatra

 

[Red Squirrel]

The morning is actually the worse I feel all day. Takes me a couple hours then I'm good to go. Night is when I get the most energy and want to conquer all the things, but have to go to bed.

 

[I Saw OJ]

2 or 10 hours of sleep I feel the same way when I wake up. Its a struggle to get out of bed.

 

[soccerballtux]

This question is for people who truly get adequate amounts of sleep. When you wake up in the morning, do you feel refreshed and ready to go, or do you still feel groggy in the morning for an hour or so before you get up and get going?

When I wake up I always feel groggy, regardless of how much sleep I get, I always would rather turn over and go back to sleep rather than get up, and I continue to feel groggy for a quite a while in the morning.

if I get good sleep, I can't get to bed on time the next night because I have too much energy.

I have found a regular schedule helps immensely by day 3. You start getting tired on schedule, and your body gets used to sleeping at a certain time, and learns to use it.

It's annoying but necessary to medicate the morning grog.

personally? I don't become fully awake until 4pm or so

 

[soccerballtux]

The morning is actually the worse I feel all day. Takes me a couple hours then I'm good to go. Night is when I get the most energy and want to conquer all the things, but have to go to bed.

seriously, wtf is with that? I'm exactly the same way

 

[pcgeek11]

Feel like a million Obama bucks, when I wake up in the mornings.

So you feel like crap every day.

 

[Naer]

Let me share my sleep stack for the most restful sleep you can get

800mg phenibut
100mg doxylanmine succinate
10 mg melatonin
Valarian root

Take this and good night sweet prince