If you (any hypothetical person) are mentally foggy and disoriented when you are startled awake, for the first few seconds, how would you know?
Unless another person who is already fully awake witnesses this, and sees you struggle with simple tasks, or tries to communicate with you... you might wrongly think you're "good to go" when really you're a hot mess!
More than a few times my alarm clock woke me up abruptly, and I would have sworn that all I did was turn it off, immediately stagger out of bed, walk 10 steps to the bathroom, pee, and come back to the bedroom...
... to find the alarm clock telling me that 6 minutes elapsed since it rang. Yet I only recall less than 2 minutes of that.
YOU DON'T always KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW.
Unless another person who is already fully awake witnesses this, and sees you struggle with simple tasks, or tries to communicate with you... you might wrongly think you're "good to go" when really you're a hot mess!
More than a few times my alarm clock woke me up abruptly, and I would have sworn that all I did was turn it off, immediately stagger out of bed, walk 10 steps to the bathroom, pee, and come back to the bedroom...
... to find the alarm clock telling me that 6 minutes elapsed since it rang. Yet I only recall less than 2 minutes of that.
YOU DON'T always KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW.
