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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
We have a hibernation mode?
How do I use this I never got the instruction manual
Sleep mode / Hibernation mode, same difference.
I mean I guess Sleep mode is the “normal” thing, Hibernation is… I guess… more like Coma or when undergoing Anesthesia…
SLEEP INTERRUPTED UNEXPECTEDLY.
DUMP LOG?Man wasn’t there something … Ah yeah forgot:
FLUSH LOG.
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.
5 minutes or so.
Unless im sleep deprived or intoxicated, pretty instantly. But although I sleep pretty well, I generally wake up regularly through the night to turn over, flip my pillow etc. So, waking isn’t usually a shock. Maybe if I got woken by an alarm I’d be confused, but generally I wake up a few minutes before my alarm.
I have to sit there for a few minutes, actually been screamed at in my youth for it too. Weird times.
Pretty much instantly unless I wake up from a particularly vivid dream - then it might take a few seconds.
I usually don’t even realise I’ve fallen asleep. It’s just, one minute I’m lying down with my eyes closed, the next the quiet chimes of my alarm reach me and I’ve fast travelled nine or ten hours into the future, y’know? I get out of bed and carry on with whatever I was doing.
There was some sleep study been shared around recently that says exactly this. It’s not a gradual progression into sleep, it’s a tipping point that happens all at once. Which I suppose makes sense… I wish waking up was more like that.
For me it’s more like 15-30 minutes. I still count it as awake because if I remember something in this time I can still wake up and do it and also I can remember some things from this period of sleep.
Lucky bastard
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.
16 hours give or take.
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.
For those specific questions usually like 1 second.
Depends on the task and time. Having to get up super early to get somewhere? No problem. Slept in? My brain might take a while to spin up.
