Even with the full 8 waking up and moving around at the start of the day is fatiguing. Even when we are young.
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Because there are entities that roam the nights spiritually speaking and feast off of us because we have no protection as we sleep. Either envision yourself in a safe bubble before you sleep that NOTHING or NO ONE can break through. Or if you believe in God which i do……just pray every night for divine protection as you go to sleep and same in mornings .
Do it for a week and see if you see improvement. You got nothing to lose.
Because there are entities that roam the nights spiritually speaking and feast off of us because we have no protection as we sleep. Either envision yourself in a safe bubble before you sleep that NOTHING or NO ONE can break through. Or if you believe in God which i do……just pray every night for divine protection as you go to sleep and same in mornings .
Do it for a week and see if you see improvement. You got nothing to lose.
Sleep debt is real and it’s a debt that always gets paid. Another option might be dehydration. Even though everything in your body slows down, it’s still running. You are still sweating a little, kidneys are still flushing out the toxins. That’s why you pee first thing in the morning. It’s trying to find the balance between drinking enough water to stay hydrated but not so much water that you have to get up half way through and pee.
There was an article recently saying that humans are not really built for 8 hours of straight sleep. The traditional sleep pattern up until the late 1800s was two 4 hour sleep periods with about an hour awake in between. It was called 1st sleep and 2nd sleep. The in between time people would use to read, pray, have sex, or just talk. It was so common in the 1700s that people would go talk to neighbors.
It wasn’t until the modern work schedules and electric lighting that the solid sleep block really developed. When we sleep today we still have 4 hour sleep blocks, usually a 1/2 hour of light sleep before slipping into REM sleep, then back to light sleep for a while then another REM cycle before waking.
There are a couple of phone apps that use your smart watch to keep track of where you are in your sleep cycle and adjust your alarm slightly to go off when you are in a lighter phase of sleeping.
If you’re waking up tired after 8 hours it’s possible you’re not actually sleeping anywhere close to 8 hours. Consider getting a sleep study. You could be waking up every few minutes with sleep apnea or something.
I could be way off here : but I think some of us are doing the right things in the morning in the wrong order. I try stick with :
1. Make the bed (completing a task so soon sets the tone for the day, encourages productivity)
2. Be in sunlight, open the curtains
3. Have a glass of water, ESPECIALLY before coffee. We lose two glasses of water while asleep.
4. Don’t look at your phone for 30 minutes
Edited to add : I broke rule 4 on Sunday, woke up to one of my coworkers being dead. Don’t break this rule if you want to protect your emotions.
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I could be way off here : but I think some of us are doing the right things in the morning in the wrong order. I try stick with :
1. Make the bed (completing a task so soon sets the tone for the day, encourages productivity)
2. Be in sunlight, open the curtains
3. Have a glass of water, ESPECIALLY before coffee. We lose two glasses of water while asleep.
4. Don’t look at your phone for 30 minutes
Edited to add : I broke rule 4 on Sunday, woke up to one of my coworkers being dead. Don’t break this rule if you want to protect your emotions.
Your body uses hormones, chemical messengers, to tell the body when to do various daily functions, one these functions controlled by hormones is our sleep wake cycle. When we sleep, all of our “stay awake hormones” like cortisol, adrenaline and histamine get “shut off” to allow our sleepy hormones like melatonin to keep us asleep so we can rest. When we first wake up, our body still has this imbalance of sleep vs awake hormones because just like some caffeine you drink, the effects of hormones can’t just stop on a dot, they have to gradually fall off.
When it’s time for the body to wake up, your wake up hormones start gradually rising, and your sleepy hormones slowly start lowering. When you actually wake up, the wake up hormones have just reached a high enough threshold to get you awake, the minimum hormone needed, but the sleepy hormone still isn’t fully depleted yet, and so when you wake up first thing in the morning, although you have enough wake up hormone to open your eyes, the sleepy hormone is still in your body, just in a small concentration, but it’s not enough to knock you out, so instead you just feel sleepy and “groggy”, and you have to get up and start the day and eventually the sleepy hormones will ware off. An easy way to think about it is same way you feel after waking up from surgery, because the sedatives in the Anesthesia are still in your body, they’re just in lower concenctrations, so they can’t knock you out but they still try to give it there best shot, leaving you feeling sleepy for a bit until your body fully breaks down the chemicals.
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Your body uses hormones, chemical messengers, to tell the body when to do various daily functions, one these functions controlled by hormones is our sleep wake cycle. When we sleep, all of our “stay awake hormones” like cortisol, adrenaline and histamine get “shut off” to allow our sleepy hormones like melatonin to keep us asleep so we can rest. When we first wake up, our body still has this imbalance of sleep vs awake hormones because just like some caffeine you drink, the effects of hormones can’t just stop on a dot, they have to gradually fall off.
When it’s time for the body to wake up, your wake up hormones start gradually rising, and your sleepy hormones slowly start lowering. When you actually wake up, the wake up hormones have just reached a high enough threshold to get you awake, the minimum hormone needed, but the sleepy hormone still isn’t fully depleted yet, and so when you wake up first thing in the morning, although you have enough wake up hormone to open your eyes, the sleepy hormone is still in your body, just in a small concentration, but it’s not enough to knock you out, so instead you just feel sleepy and “groggy”, and you have to get up and start the day and eventually the sleepy hormones will ware off. An easy way to think about it is same way you feel after waking up from surgery, because the sedatives in the Anesthesia are still in your body, they’re just in lower concenctrations, so they can’t knock you out but they still try to give it there best shot, leaving you feeling sleepy for a bit until your body fully breaks down the chemicals.
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