Laravel - How to get current user in AppServiceProvider

So I am usually getting the current user using Auth::user() and when I am determining if a user is actually logged in Auth::check. However this doesn't seem to work in my AppServiceProvider. I am using it to share data across all views. I var_dump both Auth::user() and Auth::check() while logged in and I get NULL and false.

How can I get the current user inside my AppServiceProvider ? If that isn't possible, what is the way to get data that is unique for each user (data that is different according to the user_id) across all views. Here is my code for clarification.

if (Auth::check()) {
        $cart = Cart::where('user_id', Auth::user()->id);
        if ($cart) {
            view()->share('cart', $cart);

        }
    } else {
        view()->share('cartItems', Session::get('items'));
    }

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