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the morning fog where your brain reboots but forgets to load the operating system.
means The dazed, sluggish, half-awake state of mental and physical dullness, usually after sleep, illness, or medication.
from A descendant of 'groggy,' which traces back to 'grog' — the watered-down rum issued to British sailors. The drink itself was named after Admiral Edward Vernon, nicknamed 'Old Grog' for the grogram (a coarse silk-and-wool fabric) cloak he wore; he ordered sailors' rum diluted to curb drunkenness. Sailors who'd had too much grog were 'groggy' — unsteady and fuddled — and over time the word slid from drunken wobbliness to the foggy dullness of grogginess we mean today.
- named after
- Grog, the watered rum sailors blamed for hangovers
- sleep inertia
- scientific name for that zombie state on waking
- lasts longer
- can fog the brain for up to four hours
- worst trigger
- waking mid deep-sleep cycle scrambles cognition
- caffeine lie
- adenosine still binds, so the fog lingers anyway
sleep inertia — the grogginess upon waking studied by sleep researchers, worst in first 10 minutes after sleep
monday morning effect — grogginess from social jet lag, measurably worse on mondays than fridays in shift workers