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?
I usually get “stuck” in whatever horrid nightmare I was having before waking up. For the first 5-10 minutes I’m not sure if I’m still in a dream or not, then I spend a while panicking about how I couldn’t figure out reality and if anything is real.
Although things are usually a lot better when my son decides to sleep with us. He’ll wake me up before the sun just yelling the most nonsensical stuff and it snaps me back to reality pretty quick.
My favorite from this week was “wake up daddy put your jeans on! (Throws my jeans at my face) We’re late for work!” At 5:30am. I work from home an don’t have a set time to clock in but oh boy I clocked in early that day.
aaah that’s so cute. I remember when I was that kid, it’d be weekend and kid-me would just wake up early and jump on my parent’s bed and I’d wake them up. Lol
When I was even younger, sometimes I’d sleep with my parents, like right in the middle between them. I mean, at the time I shared a room with my older brother and I didn’t really like him. Even later on, when we moved and I got my own room, I still did that sometimes. I have weird attachment to my parents, even though sometimes they’d be emotionally abusive (on those days I’d go back to my room / the shared room lol). Sometimes I can’t sleep (or wake up early in the morning) and I just played with my dad’s or mom’s face and like… you know… kids things… annoying your parents… now thinking back, I can imagine them being very annoyed lol.
Sometimes I forget which room I was in and I get disoriented. Sometimes I though I was with my parents and then I was actually in my room (cuz after using the bathroom at night, I was on autopilot and went back to my room) and I almost fell off my bed lol.
Yeah, that first paragraph is me a lot of the time. I thought sleep was supposed to be peaceful.