Daydreamer
Scatterbrained Creative
I seem to have three main states that I can experience when I wake up, and how I wake up tends to determine how the rest of the day will progress.
There's what I like to refer to as average mode. I'm fairly rested but still a little drowsy, I may fade in and out of being awake, somewhat aware of my surroundings. While I'm a bit reluctant to get out of bed in this mood, I usually do so without too much trouble. This is what I typically experience. Usually this is a good predictor that I will have an average level of productivity with some procrastination.
On bad days, I wake up wanting two more hours of sleep even though I've slept for eight hours already. With little motivation to get up.
However, I mainly want to talk about the third mode. Sometimes I wake up and almost feel like an entirely different person. The world just seems clearer somehow. Sharper.
My progress on completing work can be rather sporadic. For example, I was stuck on an essay for a while and kept on dragging it out. I was progressing but rather slowly. Then one day I woke up and it just clicked. It wasn't out of stress, I still had a significant amount of time to finish the essay. Yet I knew from the moment I woke up that day it was going to be different. Sure enough I managed to do more work in that one day than I had in three weeks. It was just inexplicably easy all of a sudden. Made me wonder why I was having such a problem with it in the first place.
The vast majority of the time it feels as though I'm carrying a sort of wet mental blanket that I'm unaware of for the most part until I have days where I wake up in the third mode. I think it's brain fog. A part of me wonders if it could be to do with my sinuses. I often feel as though I'm running at sixty or seventy percent and a little dazed out. Then I'll occasionally have days where I seem to be running at a hundred percent and I'll gain a level of focus that I didn't fully realise I lacked until I have it. The experience makes me feel as though I've temporarily become someone different, it's really bizarre.
I am often at a low level of energy and go through my days somewhat in a daze. Yet when I have days in that third mode I suddenly feel energised and focused. Almost as though I have a brand new perspective on life. I wish those days would happen more often.
There's what I like to refer to as average mode. I'm fairly rested but still a little drowsy, I may fade in and out of being awake, somewhat aware of my surroundings. While I'm a bit reluctant to get out of bed in this mood, I usually do so without too much trouble. This is what I typically experience. Usually this is a good predictor that I will have an average level of productivity with some procrastination.
On bad days, I wake up wanting two more hours of sleep even though I've slept for eight hours already. With little motivation to get up.
However, I mainly want to talk about the third mode. Sometimes I wake up and almost feel like an entirely different person. The world just seems clearer somehow. Sharper.
My progress on completing work can be rather sporadic. For example, I was stuck on an essay for a while and kept on dragging it out. I was progressing but rather slowly. Then one day I woke up and it just clicked. It wasn't out of stress, I still had a significant amount of time to finish the essay. Yet I knew from the moment I woke up that day it was going to be different. Sure enough I managed to do more work in that one day than I had in three weeks. It was just inexplicably easy all of a sudden. Made me wonder why I was having such a problem with it in the first place.
The vast majority of the time it feels as though I'm carrying a sort of wet mental blanket that I'm unaware of for the most part until I have days where I wake up in the third mode. I think it's brain fog. A part of me wonders if it could be to do with my sinuses. I often feel as though I'm running at sixty or seventy percent and a little dazed out. Then I'll occasionally have days where I seem to be running at a hundred percent and I'll gain a level of focus that I didn't fully realise I lacked until I have it. The experience makes me feel as though I've temporarily become someone different, it's really bizarre.
I am often at a low level of energy and go through my days somewhat in a daze. Yet when I have days in that third mode I suddenly feel energised and focused. Almost as though I have a brand new perspective on life. I wish those days would happen more often.