Have you ever woken up earlier than usual and you’re wide awake? It’s like you already had one or two cups of coffee, and you’re fully alert, ready to start the day. When you normally wake up, you’re tired, yawning, reflexively hitting the snooze button when the alarm sounds, but this time, it’s as if you’ve been awake the whole time.
Mornings like this are great, since it takes half the time to get ready for work, to pack lunch, and leave. On mornings like this, I can get to work half an hour or an hour early if I wanted to. It feels like I’ve woken up before everyone else has, since it’s still dark outside, and knowing that I have extra time to write or read or organize if I wanted to.
But it makes me wonder if this will catch up with me later on in the week. Will I wake up the next morning feeling tired and listless, having no energy left from the day before?
These wide awake mornings are random, unpredictable. Even if I’ve barely gotten any sleep that evening, I’d be completely alert that morning, and won’t even need breakfast or coffee to boost my energy. On these kinds of mornings, which are few and far between, I don’t want to go back to sleep, because if I do, I’ll lose the chance of getting ahead on the day. And on most days, it’s like I’m just going with the rhythm, going with the flow, rather than defining them on my own terms.
Fallton Havenstonne 