Aug 12, 2026
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That scan takes two seconds, but what it sets in motion in your nervous system runs well past breakfast.
Aug 11, 2026
Your body had already logged one stressful encounter before you reached for the towel.
Aug 10, 2026
During REM sleep your skeletal muscles were essentially paralyzed. The stretch is your sensorimotor cortex re-establishing control over each major muscle group.
Aug 8, 2026
The surfacing that comes with it is brief enough to miss but long enough to fracture the last REM cycle of the night.
Aug 6, 2026
Your body was not being difficult. Cortisol had already pulled stored glucose from your liver before you were fully awake.
Aug 5, 2026
That feeling has a mechanism. Your cortisol awakening response is designed to get you moving, but when you stack rehearsed stressors on top of it, it overshoots.
