Why is waking up in the AM so hard—anyone else experience this?
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Anonymous
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I wake at 6am every morning. Most mornings I wake and have zero energy, my brain is fog, and I vow to take an hour nap when I get home from dropping the kids at school and before I have to log in to work. But then I get in the car, return home, and am met with a burst of energy. Like today: I was dead tired, took kids to school in pajamas so I could slide right into bed. Now I’m back home and have already completed two household tasks and getting ready to start laundry and empty dishwasher. A half hour ago I was ready for bed again.
What is this? |
Anonymous
| Same thing happens to me most days. There are the occasional days where I do go back to bed. |
Anonymous
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You are wOkay okay we get it. Your child is a genius. You keep posting this stuff over and over again. It's obsessive. Are you okay?
Diurnal cycles. Waking up at 6 is crazy |
Anonymous
| I am ready to go in the morning, but every day around 4pm I briefly die. |
Anonymous
| How is your nutrition? How is your general well-being? Are you depressed? Are you in a job you dislike? Do you have support? Do you have community? Do you have outlets? |
Anonymous
| Do you drink caffeine before dropping your kids off? Even if you don’t it’s pretty normal to wake up slowly and have going out/doing a task/getting sunlight kick your brain into awake mode. Don’t aim to take a nap; plan to go to bed a bit earlier and see if that helps. |
Anonymous
Exposure to sun and light. I would suggest light therapy. and automatic shades if you can afford it that partially open from the top about 10-15 min before your desired wakeup time. trying taking a walk after dropping the kids off. also hold off on coffee or any stimulants until 90 min after you wake. eat a protein rich breakfast. ensure that you have natural light exposure during the day while inside. |
Anonymous
It’s still dark when I get home, so I don’t think it’s this. |
Anonymous
| This was posted a few days ago. |
Anonymous
OP here. I promise it wasn’t me! I’ll go look for the thread though! |
Anonymous
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I could have written this post. Same thing for me. The first 15 minutes after I wake up are truly painful. Then it seems ok and I never actually go back to sleep after doing drop off.
Is it just a part of getting older? i recall my father needing half an hour to "wake up" in the morning. |
Anonymous
| You are getting caught in the middle of a sleep cycle. Set your alarm for 30 min EARLIER (or later if possible) and see what happens. |
Anonymous
Diurnal cycles. Waking up at 6 is crazy Huh? PP not talking about a genius child. A lot of people wake up at 6 to get ready for bus or work or school. |
Anonymous
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Try cutting out gluten felt like this for about a year and a half and it got worse and worse to the point where I was in bed most of the day, and I often couldn’t finish conversations. I couldn’t take the kids to their activities (so they quit) and I couldn’t do my own laundry.
I went to so many doctors and they couldn’t find anything wrong, but then I saw a TikTok (yes I was on TikTok a lot when I had the mental capacity to understand it) and the creator said she stopped eating gluten and it fixed it. She was very strict about it and saw improvement after four weeks. I did the same and i cannot believe the difference. Something is still going on because I am way more tired than I used to be but I am back to substitute teaching , taking my kids to their activities, etc. And I have no problem waking up in the morning. |
Anonymous
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Yep. All my life. I can get up--but I feel absolutely lousy no matter how I slept or what time I went to bed. It usually goes away by the time I'm in the kitchen with kids pre-school.
It's called 'not a morning person'. |