For the last week or so, I’ve been waking up several hours earlier than normal and not being able to get back to restful sleep. I’ve never had this problem before, I’m just getting more exhausted by the day because I’m not getting to sleep much earlier
Then I find out other people are experiencing the same thing, same timeframe - around a week ago it just started for seemingly no reason
I’m fine this year, but only because I set my alarm one hour later after clocks got manipulated due to daylight savings.
Usually I wake up too early and am groggy all summer, this year I resisted.
I believe it’s because you have to adjust to a new REM cycle.
How old are you? When I hit my mid 30s, I started sleeping far less. I’m 45 now and sleeping 12-8am is completely impossible, even with sleeping pills, patches, melotonin- it’s all useless and makes NO difference.
Are you in the northern hemisphere? The sun is rising earlier and earlier.
Yes, but I’ve got blackout shades and my apartment is on the west side
Light intrusion isn’t the only factor, there’s also the temperature. It’s getting warmer earlier, so your AC is likely turning on earlier. You’re hearing the motors and wind and feeling the breeze at different times than a few weeks ago, which will also affect your sleep cycle. The birds chirping outside are active earlier, too.
All your mid-day stimuli are hitting sooner, basically.
Imagine having an AC.
Fair, my AC has been on the fritz and I’ve been waking up sweating or freezing (it’s getting fixed tomorrow) but this is different
But I ask mostly because multiple other people who live hours away have been waking up at the same times, same time frame. Two is a coincidence three is a pattern and all that
Anxiety?
I never had trouble sleeping til recently and now I wake up multiple times a night and have trouble falling back asleep. Even before when I’d get nightmares (which was often) I could go back to sleep. Those days are over. This has been my life since November and no, I’m not even American. So that’s where I’m at.
Anxiety seems to have been the culprit for me.
I also had the same problem and went on anti-anxiety meds and am back to sleeping through the night and being able to sleep in.
Same, never had trouble sleeping. Now I’m lying awake worrying about life, the universe and everything.
Same here, but it’s probably an eroded feeling is safety due to relationship troubles with kids.
Birds.
The god damned fucking birds outside my window scream their god-damned beaks off at 6:00 fucking AM just to get some tail-feather.
This shit always starts in the spring, every year. Where I am, it’s been going on for a bit more than “a week ago”, but that’s what’s been waking me up in the mornings.
I keep earplugs next to my bed. I don’t want to wear them all night because my superpower is overproducing earwax and I’d have to imagine wearing plugs all night would exacerbate that. So I put in the plugs when the birds wake me, roll over, and then sleep another couple of hours until my alarm goes off. (And, yes, my alarm reliably wakes me even with the ear plugs.)
4am, before it’s even light.
Actually…yes, kinda of. I just started taking Midnite when I have trouble sleeping, and I normally fall asleep about 2.5 seconds after my head hits the pillow.
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The sun has been raising earlier so I have been waking up earlier. Today woke up at 6am
Coincidentally, same here. The sun is rising earlier and I have a ton of light in my bedroom
That’s been happening to me for years. You start randomly waking up earlier and then you’re so tired you start going to bed earlier and the next thing you know you’re wide awake at 3AM most days. I tried melatonin but it doesn’t last the night and gave me weird dreams. Low dose CBD gummies (~2mg) have helped and now I’m sleeping till 5AM. It started in my late 40s so maybe it’s age related.
When this happens to me, I ask my subconscious to talk to me. Sometimes it does when I fall asleep again in very explicit and usually symbolic, but easy to instantly understand dreams. It’s been… wild. And liberating, when I do the healing work.
My dreams when I do manage to go back to sleep are unusually uncomfortable, I’ll keep that in mind
My friend also has told me about some disturbing dreams in the same time frame
I think consciously cuing the subconscious is key. Verbally, aloud is how I do it, but other ways may work, I just don’t know them.
My friend also has told me about some disturbing dreams in the same time frame
You seem to be fixated on some idea that there’s something “bigger” happening here. I would just be careful to not let magical thinking cloud your logic…
I do that sometimes, but haven’t been any more than usual lately.
I was just reading about nocturnal hyperglycemia waking people up during the night just the other day. So, it could be a blood sugar crash
It’s the only time I can get any worms
