Suffice it to say that I do not wake up gracefully. The mind needs time to adjust to the return of the waking state; while that is in progress, the lower portions of the brain are in charge, and they lack subtlety; they tend to regard all things as either food or background, to either be eaten or ignored. Unless I had a naughty dream, in which case the lower brain sometimes wants to mount the recliner. Don't picture it. 
