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Usually if something wakes me up before my natural time, I can get back to sleep fairly quickly. The odd thing is that I often sleep WAY past my natural wake-up time when this happens, starting the "drifting" process. My fellow DSPS'ers know what this is - waking up later pushes my natural sleep time back even later than usual, pushing my natural wake time even more off the mark. Not a good thing.
Today, I tried to counter that by setting my alarm for 9:00 when I woke up at 5:20. Between 9:00 and 10:00 is my natural time, so it wasn't far off the mark. Still, when that alarm goes off it jolts me awake and throws me off all day. It's like a mental switch doesn't quite turn on.
This leads to things like:
Walking into a room and looking around, not remembering why I'm there.
Hitting my head on the bathroom door, which opens outward into my hallway. I usually know it's there, and I pay attention, but not when I'm "off."
Putting my brush in my medicine cabinet instead of in the drawer.
Making coffee without putting the grounds in the filter, then standing there for a few minutes wondering why all I ended up with was hot water.
Dropping a whole container of blueberries all over the kitchen floor. Do you know how hard it is to get blueberries swept up off a kitchen floor that looks like THIS? Yes, those little dots are just about blueberry sized, of course.
It's not just that I'm tired when I wake up unnaturally. I'm...weird. There have been times in my life when I've been afraid to stay at other people's houses overnight because I don't want them to see how freaky I am in the mornings.
Does this happen to other people with DSPS too? Does it happen to you??? Or am I truly strange?
2 comments:
Hey, it's Dave from Niteowl. thought I'd check out your blog and wanted to say I know exactly what you mean about being in a daze if your routine gets thrown off. I constantly walk into a room and have to stop to think about why I'm there. Or I'll open the laptop to do something and spend 5 minutes messing around cos I can't remember what it was I was gonna do. But it's hard to describe - I can usually tell it's gonna be one of those days if I haven't fully woken up by the time I've finished my first morning coffee.
As far as the staying at friends thing goes - I try not to do that because it invariably means they can't use their living room till at least noon - my natural rythme is a sleep time of 5am-ish to 12 or 1pm and if I'm woken up too early, I'm really not all there. It doesn't help that I'm a bit of a coffee snob and most of my friends don't buy anything other than instant. But I guess that's part of my wake up routine - I always sit for at least 10 minutes over a coffee, even if I'm running late, because if I don't do that, I'm a forgetful mess all day.
Hi Dave -
DSPS breeds coffee snobs!!!! :-)
I can totally relate. I couldn't drink it for a week (see April 13 post) but today is my first day back with it and now that my stomach can handle it, my whole world feels better. That morning coffee is as much a mental and emotional ritual as a physical boost. I truly need it.
Pots of it. A nice cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain would make my day. In fact, one of my criteria for where I live was that it had to be within walking distance of a really good coffeehouse. One where they roast the coffee on-site, every day.
I found Polly's Coffee in Belmont Shore, CA and haven't looked back.
Ahhh!!!!! Bliss!!!!
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