where you would rather hid under the covers....
I'm sure I'm not the only one that has the days where you just want to stay in bed all day....
I need to find more tricks, I'd love to hear from y'all...
Up to this spring, I pretty much succumbed to the darkness of my bedroom with blackout blinds, put on a hoodie, took hours to get "awake", head dulled, sometimes headache. The only thing I made sure of was never to stay lying in bed, cos I knew that's bad for sleep, and just cos it hurt.
Then suddenly I heard several sleep experts saying we need to get earliest sun in our eyes for cortisol and melatonin, so pull sleep forward and get up early even if we haven't slept. They recommended to do that bit by bit. But I'm someone who has to wrench to the new habit and then adjust. Doing it, I quickly realized myself that this was right for me as well as a different doc saying we don't need as much sleep. Just in the beginning I went down from trying to get 9h to 6h, I now know 7-8 is ideal.
By doing all that and being in the garden most of the day, I've also realized the fresh air is great for me, and even the freshest musty air in the flat takes my oxygen, makes me feel needy of "something", while being outdoors makes me feel "full" of that, so I imagine air and oxygen...
So that's my big motivation every morning: Knowing I'm harming myself by succumbing to the tiredness, knowing I'll have more effective sleep, better quality of life, save myself a few hours of dropping out, gaining a whole long(er) day, feeling more refreshed and more full of freshness, and with sort of more "energy" (at least slow & passive energy).
I don't blame myself for succumbing before, I really didn't realize. But it's weird going from someone who wasn't responsive much before 11 now to someone who is usually now up at 6 or 7.
My ex-manual therapist by the way called the sun "Clara" and "greeted" her every morning. I do greet it/her sometimes too.
Off topic: Now I realize I've developed a high blood pressure problem I no longer "leap" - i.e. swing myself - out of bed using force/energy, to not make it surge up from 100/65 to 160/90 (probably cos it's overdoing it first thing). That does make it a bit harder to get brain and body moving. But once I've ravelled myself out, I open a big window fully, sit on the sill, and take all my first supps looking at the morning sky, looking for the lightest part, even if the sun isn't out. Sort of a bit like I used to look at a full moon for energy. Maybe placebo, maybe more. Next I care for the plants in flat and on balcony and at the moment then often feed up our poorly guinea pig when my wife hasn't got the time.
Your examples: I can't talk much anyway, so in the mornings that's not exactly better. With TV & film it's not brain fog focusing, in case you two mean that, it's the emotional energy necessary that I can't manage. Sometimes I can let people talk at me for 20 mins. or more if I take breaks, but I need to distance myself and be introverted. So un-/like
@sunkacola I have loads of people, but don't talk much...
