The First Five Morning Minutes

I love sleeping and I love my bed.
My understanding is, that people don't appreciate those golden hours, during nighttime, enough. The human is a machine who only can perform out from how his sleep went. Try going through a whole night without sleeping, followed by a day of work. Trust me, you will never underestimate the night you could have had with your dreams, again.

As a person who thinks a lot, the second best thing I know about sleeping is my dreams. Who doesn't? Maybe you get killed once in a while, but it's all worth it for those great dreams as well. All the times you dreamt about flying, being able to perform magic, meeting your idol, going to a whole new and probably non-existing place or having sex with a complete stranger, while you're already taken. If it's a dream, it's not cheating.

The nights are our days without any boundaries. We also remove all the norms, do's and dont's all together with a whole set of rules we follow during our regular day life. Everything is possible, and if we could just be completely conscious about what happened around us in that dream, we could design every single part of it, as we dreamt it.

That was my second favourite thing. But my favourite moment lying in my bed, is the first five minutes after I wake up. Still in a dreaming state of mind, everything just seems to not matter right now. I know that I'm me, lying in my bed, in my room, but I feel like I'm the only person in the whole world. Reality didn't kick in yet, not completely.
The feeling of lying still, completely relaxed and rested, with the duvet, warm and soft around your body, and the daylight that just a couple of hours ago was gone, now shines through your window and down on you.

All the worries and speculations you filled your head with, right before you fell asleep, is gone with the new day arriving. Maybe they're not, but at least they are for the next five minutes. Sometimes in the weekends you can even get to expand these minutes a bit, if you planned your day right. Go on spending millions on meditation and psychiatrists; these minutes in the morning are worth more that money can buy. And I'm not even trying to sell you something new here, I'm just trying to make you notice how your first minutes in bed every day is the best time of your awake life.

I like not to open my eyes for these minutes, and instead just trying to reconnect with the dreams I just had an hour ago. Sometime I even go right back into them, but this time I can control them for a bit. Or at least I like to think I can. The second I wake up from sleeping, it's like I can feel the wakefulness flow through my body, starting with my head and slowly passing down to my feet. The feeling is pure happiness, in the best way it could ever be.

Going from a dream scenario where everything was new and different, to the scenario of the new day, where everything can become new and different, is such a wild feeling, and it all happens in those five minutes, where everything around me is quite, hidden and still sleeping.