I mean like: How long does it take before you brain goes: oh shit, I exist… I remember, I am a living thing, human, my name is [■■■ ■■■] and my current location is [■■■] and oh shit I’m late for [work/school/event] (or if its weekend, its like: oh… nothing’s happening, life is boring)
Like you know what I’m saying, like the Terminator HUD thing after it reboots and it takes a few seconds before it can identify a target and then recognize its mission… that type of thing.
Or do you wake up and within 1 nanosecond realize the state of your existence?
A matter of seconds, but I attribute this to my time in the military. It is VERY hard for me to fall back to sleep once I’ve woken up because my brain is like “It’s GO TIME!” instantaneously. I could wake up, walk straight out to my car, and drive it safely if I had to.
My dad was almost court marshelled over that. He was in Vietnam, active war time, his lieutenant thought it was a good idea to wake him by shaking him and yelling. His first reaction was to wake up swinging and punched his liutenent. They tried to charge him with hitting a superior officer but was let off as technically under military law you are not responsible for the first 5 seconds of being awake.