Stop doing this one thing the second you wake up to end morning grogginess for good, say experts

By Eve Davies, Apr 5, 2026

“It’s generally beneficial to wake up gradually without a sudden start that jolts you awake,” says board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist Dr. Alex Dimitriu. “This matters because if you learn to go from sleep to wide awake in under a minute, your body learns to jolt itself awake with any disturbance, and this can mess up sleep at night.” The Stanford-trained sleep physician explains that “creating a repeating habit of waking up and grabbing your phone immediately […] trains you to wake and go, which can make falling back asleep harder.”

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