For months I’ve been snoozing my alarm in the morning and ending up late for work. The comfortable feeling of lying in bed with my eyes shut almost feels like some kind of coping mechanism from the difficult task of simply getting out of bed, but it’s so hard to push through that mental resistance.

However, after doing it once and jumping out of bed, pushing past that feeling of fatigue, the following morning there was far less resistance, and then in the days following this, I was waking up full of energy before my alarm even went off.

What is happening here? Is it new neural pathways forming? If so, why is this happening so fast? Also note that if I slip up and sleep in just one day, I very quickly revert to my old ways. I’ve also noticed this pattern in situations where I choose to take the stairs rather than the elevator, the more difficult task just very quickly becomes my new ‘normal’ and loses the mental fatigue/resistance associated with it.