Every morning, people sleepily drag themselves out of bed, wandering through a brain fog that seems to take forever to dissipate. Early risers will deny it exists, but evidence in a new paper in the journal NeuroImage suggests otherwise.
When I wake, I'm wide awake. Never heard of this supposed malady. Apparently, some people have trouble with that whole "waking" thing. I don't "drag myself out of bed" - I jump up. Don't need a cup of coffee to get going, either - and that whole thing's kind of a myth that many seem to buy into; caffeine won't exert any physiological effect for at least half an hour after ingestion. It's more a placebo effect than anything else.
My guess: I wake quickly with full alertness because my ancestors did that - and survived.
