100%. I think it’s an age thing. My body likes to remind me of all my work and life stress around 4am every morning, and there’s no hope of going back to sleep then. Sleeping to my 6:45 alarm is incredibly rare.
I routinely get up at 3:45 am to work out, run, or cycle, and I STILL wake up around 2:00 am the following day having to pee. I've went as far to stop all liquid consumption by mid afternoon and guess what happened that night? woke up at 2:00 am having to pee!
Now I just embrace it, it's part of my morning now. I'm 43 but this has been going on for years now.
This is exactly what happens to me as well. Everything after 4 a.m. is light dozing, just awake enough to think of all the work you need to do. It's like your subconscious mind doesn't have all of its protection mechanisms that are normally active during the daytime, so there's nothing to stop the flood.
I sleep almost every night without waking up during it. But sometimes, only a few times a year I wake up early.
The worst scenario is waking up totally tired 2 minutes before your alarm. But what gives me delight is when the alarm is in 4+ hours. I always feel like I get twice the sleep then.
My stupid brain wakes me up at 2AM and decides that I’ve gotten a full night of sleep and doesn’t let me feel tired to drift off again for a few hours. I get very lucky if I can get a full 8 hours at this point
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u/kindlycaoilin 9h ago
Waking up and seeing you still have a few hours of sleep till your alarm goes off…