Are Your Sensory / Processing Issues Worse When You Wake Up

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My sensory / processing issues are worse for a few hours after I have woken up.

e.g. After a nights sleep my GF likes to talk a lot in the morning , it's just too much for me to process first thing in the morning and I partially shut down which just makes her talk more.

Maybe I'm just not a morning person. Is anybody else's sensory / processing issues worse in the morning?

In my case, yes. I usually expect it whenever I wake up.

^ Can this sometimes shape your day in a negative way

Mine is usually best in the morning.
Then it all goes downhill from there.

same!

Mine get worse throughout the day. When I wake up they are lesser, by the time I go to sleep it is hard to think and I have trouble reading.

It's random.
It can get better within few hours, it could get worse throughout the day, or gets stacks of different kinds of random (fluctuation) instead of terms of better or worse.


Overall, I don't let it bother me.
I can take intensities of stimuli and usually able to afford it. This isn't something I usually deal on daily basis.

But taking too many from different sources at the same time, regardless of how intense it was, though, it's a different story.
Confusion alone won't make my day worse, but confusion causing problems and errors is another...

Processing is a tricky one. It usually entirely lies on the state of my body instead of my mind and where it pays attention to. Most of it depends how well I slept throughout the night, and it's entirely luck with lower odds to count on.
Mostly in terms of executive functioning -- verbal processing, working memory, and short term memory in particular.
My 'best' is that I don't have to make an effort to pay attention to the speaker, yet I understood what he just said and recall every word I heard. Glance on a 15+ or so digit numbers, and memorized it in a few glance.
With this, almost nothing could literally would ever go wrong with my day. If only...


In general, I'm my own biggest problem anything else would likely be the least of my worries. It's usually this:
Thing is that external stimuli alone no matter how bad won't usually ruin my day, but my own reactions and internal processing would, especially if it's mismatched. In other words, I'm more frustrated with myself than towards anything else that might as well annoy the crap out of me for being out there.
A huge spill of scalding coffee or a yelling mad critic is nothing to me, compared to sneezing throughout the night or switching words by getting distracted then getting frustrated by it or feeling bad about something.

Thanks Edna , very informative

My idiotic sense of balance is worse when I wake up. Everything else seems to be OK.

I can have trouble speaking when I first wake up and all my answers are mmmwww.

Sounds familiar , my GF hates it but at least she understands why

Luckily my balance doesn't seem affected , although my spatial awareness is crap no matter what time of day

Does anyone else manage to get door handles hooked in their trouser pockets ?

Yeah. I'm also in the groggy crowd, I am useless in the morning. I just take most of my breaks for the day before I even get to work because that's actually more responsible, ultimately.

I had about 15 minutes respite in work, sometimes less before it got hectic ( enough time for a coffee ) but it was usually just information exchange not social niceties so I was OK with that , as soon as the social aspect reared it's ugly head I'd wobble.

I'm laughing so hard (sorry Ferris) -- I do this all the time, and also catch myself on the sleeves of blouses or jackets, handbag straps, scarves, even mobile chargers if I'm carrying them past a doorknob. When I go up a stairwell I usually get caught on the bannister as well.

I notice I am very texture, smell and sound repulsed when I wake up. Not necessarily because I'm not hungry, but the thought of having to eat or drink something and having to deal with the texture makes me feel sick, and the thought of having to pull on a pair of pants and a shirt and feel the fabric clinging to me makes me feel really aggravated and compressed (I can't find another word to describe it, sorry). I notice my auditory processing regresses and my texture issues improve a bit as the day goes on though. It becomes a lot harder to tune out auditory information when i'm not half-asleep. Still have sensory issues in general, of course.