Why do people wake up in the morning and then sit staring into space for about 20 minutes?
I see memes and stuff about people doing this and I genuinely don’t understand the reason behind it
Preparing mentally to sit and stare for 8 hours.
Tell us you don’t have a full time job without telling us.
Not sure what memes you are referring to. Sometimes I sit or lie in bed for a bit to get my thoughts in order, process my weird dream, listen to the birds or just enjoy not having to be in a hurry. Sometimes I just want to postpone standing up because I know I will have to sit in front of the damn computer all day again. Sometimes I stand up immediately.
I need some time to review the life choices that led me to this.
3/10, do not recommend
Review complete, the next 19 minutes will be spent processing existential dread.
I typically wake up dehydrated AF. So I wake up, drink the glass of water I set out next to me the night before, and wait to not feel like I have a whole ecosystem growing in my mouth. It's 5-10 min for me, then it's up, toilet, restart work laptop, make coffee, greet my Person, and finally login to work laptop for the work day. 8 second commute to my work desk is choice.
Seems like you need to drink more water during the day :)
For me it's that when I drink 3L of water over the course of 16h, the dehydration after 8 hours of not drinking is such a stark difference that it's uncomfortable.
I'm trying to decide between facing another day or ending it all. Some days it takes a little more thought to justify getting up.
With a little bit of practice you can save time by doing them simultaneously! You haven't truly lived until you've started at a wall for 20 minutes during despair breakfast
Existential dread of facing the day?
Or is that just me?
More of an "overcome by anxiety and feelings of failure" for me.
That, and as an adhd-haver, my morning stims havent kicked in yet
It's fun when it's both.
Definitely not just you. There's a lot of existential dread.
In my case it just takes a while to get the gears running, but it’s usually 5 minutes at most
I just need to compose my will to get up. Then it's coffee brewing ritual.
The second my body wakes up, I am in pain and want to throw up. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to stretch, adjust to the pain, and power through the nausea.
Solidarity fist bump.
I'm sorry, that sounds horrible. 🫂
I'm sometimes tired when I awake, if I didn't get enough sleep the night before. Also, it's kind of like the ADHD thing when you know you should do stuff, but you just sit there consciously doing nothing, although you don't want to be. That also sometimes happens for a bit until I finally start doing stuff.
It is just part of their morning ritual.
I like to sit and drink my coffee after I eat breakfast. It is just a bit of Me time.
Yes, I like that too! Some people drink coffee for the caffeine. But honestly, I never really cared about that part. I just love waking up with enough time to relax a bit with a nice cup of Joe. :)
My brain and body don't immediately activate when I wake up.
Think of it like when you had to wait several minutes for Windows 98 to boot from a slow mechanical HDD platter lol!!
Why, what do you do?
I did this in the past. And that was to wake up after stirring awake from my slumber.
the meme is about how it can be hard to face the day given work/political concerns
Ahhhhh gotcha, I thought it meant something along the lines of that, thanks for your reply!
When i wake up, my body is immediately ready. But my mind takes a lot longer to fully boot. During that in between time you can talk to me. But my brain won't register you.
This is me. I'd rather prefer peace and quiet before an onslaught of noise and trying to set some sense of order on the general chaos with people who have a common goal pulling in different directions to achieve it though.
depression for me
I usually sleep so deep that after I wake up I'm still semi-conscious for some time and i'm afraid that if i stand up i might land on my face. All gears are definitely not working right away.
The other ten minutes is just existential dread.
I have envied people who are fully aware and alert and ready when they wake up.
For me, it takes longer than a few minutes
Powering through the horror takes time.
I'm tired and can't be bothered to get out of bed yet, need to wake up a bit more.
Waiting for my back to slowly compress back into place so I can move again lol. Am old.
Sometimes I'm super groggy when my alarm wakes me up and it takes a while to adjust
This is not a universal phenomenon. This is the result of stress affecting sleep by causing sleep latency problems or the quality of the sleep itself leaving the individual non-refreshed upon waking and needing a refractory period to recover from sleeping before getting out of bed. The reason it's coming up a lot more often is that greater numbers of people are experiencing the health consequences of chronic stress.