Get user id from session - laravel 5.3 authentication

I have fresh Laravel 5.3 installation. Just used the php artisan make:auth to get started with built in auth functionalities. All works fine, and after login the Auth::check() returns true, Auth::user() return the user's data and Auth::id() gives the logged in user's id.

What bothering me is that when I have only this line

$userId = Auth:id();

in my controller's action (and no other code elsewhere associated with Auth) in the Debugger panel's "Queries" tab I see the following query

select * from `users` where `users`.`id` = '34' limit 1

This extra query is highly undesirable to me (especially the select all part), as I need the user's id to make a query, selecting specific fields from users table, as well as to join it with another tables. For performance reasons I do not want to do double query.

So, is there a way to tell Laravel to save the logged in user's id in session(if it is not being saved) and get the id of the logged in user directly from session - without making any query to the database.

Thanks

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