Becoming an Early Riser 001
Day two: I'm going to need a nap today. I won't get one, unless I take it after work but then that would interfere with my bedtime...so no nap. I'll power through. I woke 10 minutes before my alarm went off and made the mistake of lying back down for those glorious 9 minutes. I've read that when you wake alert like I just described, you should NOT lie back down. It appears someone has done this before. I was alert the first time...second time...not so much. I'm groggy, even with 12 oz of coffee, a donut and sitting in my car by the Blanco River watching the sun light up the cliff as it rose.
Yesterday, was different. I wanted to lie back down after the alarm went off at 5:15, but I resisted in spite of not having slept very well. It was like my brain knew I was going to throw it into a tailspin by getting up almost 2 hours earlier than usual, so it wouldn't settle down. Instead, I seemed to have been half asleep most of the night. My brain was still on vacation all day...loopy and confused most of the time.
Lessons learned so far:
--Putting the alarm, in my case my phone, across the room, to force me to get up to turn it off (snooze feature disabled), is a good idea.
--If I wake 10 minutes before it goes off, go make coffee...DON'T lie back down.
--The sunrise is a beautiful thing, even though for part of it I was researching the dream I had last night where I was driving and couldn't raise my seat back up to see over the steering wheel and couldn't reach the accelerator well enough to go when the stoplight turned green. THAT'S telling, isn't it dream interpreter fans?
--Stay off my phone when in the presence of nature.
To be continued...
Yesterday, was different. I wanted to lie back down after the alarm went off at 5:15, but I resisted in spite of not having slept very well. It was like my brain knew I was going to throw it into a tailspin by getting up almost 2 hours earlier than usual, so it wouldn't settle down. Instead, I seemed to have been half asleep most of the night. My brain was still on vacation all day...loopy and confused most of the time.
Lessons learned so far:
--Putting the alarm, in my case my phone, across the room, to force me to get up to turn it off (snooze feature disabled), is a good idea.
--If I wake 10 minutes before it goes off, go make coffee...DON'T lie back down.
--The sunrise is a beautiful thing, even though for part of it I was researching the dream I had last night where I was driving and couldn't raise my seat back up to see over the steering wheel and couldn't reach the accelerator well enough to go when the stoplight turned green. THAT'S telling, isn't it dream interpreter fans?
--Stay off my phone when in the presence of nature.
To be continued...
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