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Stanford: What ‘waking up confused’ means
Has the sound of the telephone ever pulled you like a fish from water out of a deep sleep?
You blindly grab for the phone, mumble out a grumpy “hello” only to realize that you haven’t picked up the phone at all, but are speaking into the battery pack at the bottom of your alarm clock?
Maybe you brushed it off as just being one of the unavoidable quirks of getting older. But what may have been ignoring as a “senior moment” is a lot more common than you think. Now there is science to explain it. A new study has found this type of confusion is a real issue. Scientists have even coined it “sleep drunkenness.”
Confusion and disorientation when you wake up
A report by Stanford University School of Medicine and published in the journal Neurologyhas shown that one in seven people have sleep drunkenness, defined as having “extreme confusion and disorientation upon waking.” The condition, more conventionally called “confusional arousal or excessive sleep inertia” is brought on when a person has been woken up suddenly during the early stages of light sleep (non- rapid eye movement sleep).
Read More: http://www.belmarrahealth.com/stanford-what-waking-up-confused-means/
