Summary
WHEN you got up this morning, did you get your knickers in a twist? I mean, literally. Perhaps you blearily put both legs down the same opening in your drawers and toppled into a maddened heap on the floor, or simply tripped on the bedclothes with one eye still shut, sprawled across the bedroom, and crashed into the door - before tripping over your dug as you headed towards the bathroom to get a plaster.
Waking up is so hard to do. It seems that the period in which you gradually wake up and start to move around is the most dangerous time in your day. A study by scientists at the University of Colorado suggests that the performance of people immediately after waking is as bad as if they had imbibed too much booze.See the full content of this document
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Wake Up to the Facts: It's Safer in Bed
Short-term memory, counting skills and cognitive abilities are impaired in the waking period. During this "sleep inertia", your performance when you've just woken up after eight hours' sleep is worse than...
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