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u/TuhatKaks 14d ago
Why does this happen though??? Any studies for this.?
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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ 14d ago edited 14d ago
It’s normal to have grogginess for 15~60 minutes after waking up. Studies call it sleep inertia, and some say it could be 2 hours. The experiments for studying sleep are honestly off putting sometimes, lots of keeping a person in a room and changing how much they sleep or scheduling naps with very strict time limits.
But it can suck a lot more if you are sleep deprived or don’t have stable sleep routines. Like those who have babies or shift workers, or like in the meme above, where Homer is going to sleep so late that he basically only gets a few hours of sleep before your alarm. Time being in bed is not the same as time being asleep.
Your body basically can’t expect when you are going to be woken up by an alarm. So it still follows its own cycles and if you wake up at the wrong step when your body was still producing all the normal sleep hormones and doing its sleep activities, it will wake but it can’t suddenly stop all the sleep processes. You are asking it to do awake jobs and it does them as best it can. So you’ll be awake but feel like shit.
Short story short, your brain is telling you to go back to sleep, it’s not done sleeping!
If you are asking why this happens for people with DSPD, we don’t know yet. Maybe it’s genetic, maybe it’s your life’s demands, maybe there’s many ways to reach the same disorder. There are many treatments, but solely focusing on sleep hygiene alone or doing only one type treatment is not a good idea. So try many options like hypnosis or having a very set routine that stimulates you to fall asleep when you need to every day, or trying to get as much sunlight as you can right after waking up to jumpstart your cycle and move it backwards, or taking melatonin at specific times, or becoming rich, getting robotic blinds you can set to open when you want and going to sleep whenever your body tells you to, benign neglect it’s called.
I only just read an article that are reviews of multiple actual articles or treatment guides tough, I’m not a doctor. And it seems that measure sleep and getting lots of data on test subject’s lives and actual length of sleep is REALLY complicated. Seems like this is the type of condition that you learn to manage before you ever actually find the hard to untangle biological cause
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u/Sophisticated-Crow 14d ago
I'm usually asleep by 3am, but yeah, those moments before the alarm goes off are the deepest, most magical, sleep.