How many times have you found yourself feeling bad as soon as you wake up from a nap?

How many times have you gone to your bed feeling good then woke up feeling depressed?

This article won’t tell you to change your alarm clock’s tone, nor will it tell you to think positively while in bed.

But it will point out to you all the possible psychological reasons that can make you wake up feeling bad so that you can avoid them.

Feeling bad when waking up.

As soon as you wake up, your mind makes two rapid checks; the first one is a check for any accumulated or carried over problems from the previous days.

Along with other checks is for any fears or future concerns you have; if anything bad were found in any of the two checks, you would wake up feeling bad.

Let’s assume that you had a breakup and then went to sleep; the next day, when you wake up, the breakup will be detected in the carried-over problems check, and you will feel bad.

You might be telling yourself you “ hey, sometimes I do have no problems, and I still wake up feeling bad,” and you are right because sometimes you may have an old problem that is buried deep by your subconscious mind. After all, revealing it to you may cause you lots of pain.

These goals you failed to achieve 6 months ago, this bad habit you couldn’t quit for years, or these intense feelings of guilt are all examples of problems that could be buried deep in your subconscious mind, and that can make you feel bad when waking up.

Don’t underestimate the effect of accumulated emotions. Accumulated guilt can also result in making you fall in love with someone who looks like the person you hurt before, even if he wasn’t a good match for you!!

The other check that is done in the one concerning the future:

• Do you have a hard task to do that day?
• Are you worried about the outcome of the meeting you have with your manager that day?
• Are you afraid of the future?

These fears are examples of factors that could make you feel bad as soon as you wake up.

Other reasons for feeling bad on waking up

If you noticed your muscles’ state when feeling distressed, you would find that some muscles are contracting abnormally.

If you ate lots of food right before going to bed, then you might get a little stomach ache that fools your mind into thinking that you are feeling bad.

The result is feeling bad just because of the physiological changes that happened in your body.

Starting to run as soon as you wake up is one of the things that could make you feel horrible on walking up, people who jump out of their beds saying phrases like “Omg, I am late I am late” or “I will never be able to catch the bus” will also wake up feeling bad.

Make sure you stay in your bed for 10 minutes before you jump out of it.

Finally, having a bad dream then forgetting about it in the morning could be one of the strong reasons for feeling bad on waking up; dreams affect our moods just like real experience does, and so a bad dream in the middle of the night could be the main reason for feeling bad when waking up if no other reasons were there.

My advice is to learn how to fight your fears and worries and at the same time stop the negative habit of leaving accumulated problems behind your back; if you did those two things, you would rarely wake up feeling bad.