I mean like: How long does it take before you brain goes: oh shit, I exist… I remember, I am a living thing, human, my name is [■■■ ■■■] and my current location is [■■■] and oh shit I’m late for [work/school/event] (or if its weekend, its like: oh… nothing’s happening, life is boring)
Like you know what I’m saying, like the Terminator HUD thing after it reboots and it takes a few seconds before it can identify a target and then recognize its mission… that type of thing.
Or do you wake up and within 1 nanosecond realize the state of your existence?
In terms of cognizance, a few seconds.
More broadly, in terms of achieving activation energy for the day and so on:
- With wake up stims? ~15-30m.
- Without wake up stims? Anywhere from 30m-3h, depending on a lot of contextual variables.
Instantly? I don’t even feel groggy when I wake up. Don’t drink caffeine either, well not after waking up. Sometimes if I have to stay up longer than I should.
Jealous
We all have strengths and weaknesses. I’d trade this ability for a more important one I severely lack in.
It’s true! It’s a relatively minor complaint really. Let me pivot: fuck social norms around early starts 😅
Don’t drink caffeine either, well not after waking up.
Are you saying you sleepwalk, and drink coffee while sleeping? Because, that’s kind of impressive.
I a word?
Immediately
When I wake up, I know who I am and where I and there’s no disorientation; but I cannot get myself out of bed for half an hour. I feel like I’ve been given tranquilizer medication. Need to keep hitting snooze on the alarm. I resent this because I could have slept an extra half hour if I could only wake up and go… But I must go through this snoozing drama every morning. No matter how much sleep I get, my brain cannot be functional enough to get out of bed for that first half hour. After that I’m good to go and firing on all thrusters.
What happens if you don’t have an alarm?
I wake up naturally, but still doped up. Almost always exactly half an hour, then it feels like the light comes on.
This isn’t something I think about/worked on, sorry. Not remotely consistent either with when I sleep, personal life and shift work.
Earplugs every time I sleep. Sleep mask when the sun will be out.
Find an app for your phone/watch that wakes you up at the end of your sleep cycles. When you’re in deep sleep you tend to be pretty still, but when you’re at the end of a sleep cycle is when you typically move around a night. There’s apps that will wake you up when it’s almost your alarm time, but you’re moving around.
Also try to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. Eventually you can kinda figure out your own sleep cycles and try to work with them instead of against them.
Within the first 30-45 mins of waking up. Getting up and starting my daily routine is a big part of feeling like I’m awake.
A matter of seconds, but I attribute this to my time in the military. It is VERY hard for me to fall back to sleep once I’ve woken up because my brain is like “It’s GO TIME!” instantaneously. I could wake up, walk straight out to my car, and drive it safely if I had to.
My dad was almost court marshelled over that. He was in Vietnam, active war time, his lieutenant thought it was a good idea to wake him by shaking him and yelling. His first reaction was to wake up swinging and punched his liutenent. They tried to charge him with hitting a superior officer but was let off as technically under military law you are not responsible for the first 5 seconds of being awake.
That’s wild! I never heard of that law. I do remember in boot camp back in the '90s, they told us that people could get kicked out if they snored too much because it could potentially give away your position to the enemy. That being said, I knew plenty of soldiers who snored, and none of them ever got kicked out for it.
I will say he died in '99 and this occurred in the early seventies so I have no evidence. It was just what I was told and I know was definitely in the military in Vietnam so…
Oh, I still believe it, no worries. Sorry for your loss, no matter how long ago it was.
Funny story, there were problems with his paycheck in the military and would get checks of like 10 cents. His mother got diagnosed with leukemia and he made a deal to forgive all the unpaid wages to get out a year early to care for her. He got out, came home, found out his mother had his horse…“fixed”. He didn’t talk to her again for 10 years.
She ended up living longer than he did.
Whoa. Did they reconcile before he passed, though?
Yeah my mother forced him to contact her when she was pregnant with my sister. My mother felt my grandmother deserved to know she was going to be a grandmother.
Until afternoon or evening.
Coffee and not even a monster java in the morning is enough. I really do take that long to warm up. This is why I work night shifts.
5 minutes or so.
You’re describing something I would hope wouldn’t be the norm. If that’s happening to you I’d urge you to see a brain doctor. Not a shrink, an MD doctor.
If you are not familiar with the concept of sleep and/or waking up you may want to do the same.
In your case the doctor clearly wouldn’t have anything to work with.
On most days it isn’t really going until 9 a.m. no matter what time I haul my ass out of bed. On vacation that is when I wake up if allowed to sleep in.
The one thing I look forward to from a possible retirement is sleeping on my natural sleep cycle.
16 hours give or take.
Depends. Startle response is pretty beast.
In general pretty quick. Anywhere from instant to about 1 hour.
For those specific questions usually like 1 second.
For me, it’s usually instantly. While I’m usually groggy for at least half an hour, for as long as I can remember, I’ve always been able to wake up and immediately start my daily tasks, play video games or have conversations with people. I’ll even sometimes remember that there’s something I need to do, like my laundry or that I forgot to take out the trash the night before.
Mine seems to be tied to the time of day more than anything. Regards of how much sleep I get I can be groggy most of the day. For whatever reason my OS seems to power up a couple of hours after the sun goes down. All of the sudden things come into focus and I have the energy to get things done.
According to my parents I have always been this way, a natural born night person.
I typically wake up naturally nd go to bed not too late. So I can say I go from waking up to being awake in less than a minute. This sometimes causes me to have insomnia if it happens at 4AM because I become incredibly awake.
It varies. If you have this all the time, I’d suspect your sleep duration is not aligned with your sleep cycles. I’ll be more confused if I had dreamy sleep, I’ll be more confused if I wake from REM or deep, and I’ll be very confused if I awake from a dreamy sleep during REM or deep. I don’t think I forget I’m human, but it can take a second to adjust to not having a dream reality. I’m definitely, often enough, entirely confused as to where I am for a moment.
However, this effect is lessened when I awake from light sleep. It feels more natural. There’s a lingering sleepy feeling, but it somehow feels like I’m well rested, even if it’s a short sleep. Sleep cycles are typically 90 minutes (light-rem-deep-rem-light). 6 hours isn’t great, but waking is acceptable. 7.5 is good enough for me. 9 is too much commitment to test.
Ironically, when I drink until bedtime, I can sometimes wake instantly if the timing is right. However, it’s like a low power mode. I’m alert, but lazy. Like I just blinked away my entire sleep. Alcohol tends to prevent REM and disrupt deep sleep.
