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
Nah, the opposite. I’ve got insomnia back for the first time in about 20 years. Coincidentally, I’m at a healthy body weight and BMI for the first time in 22 years.
I’ve woken up at 5 or 6 am every day for about 12 years at this point.
Factory life I guess. Weekends included
Honestly I have the best and healthiest sleep schedule of anyone I know
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.
No, if there were no work it’d be the opposite. I’d sleep till afternoon…
You Hear Their Call, Too, Brother?
If you live far from the tropiques like I do, that is just the sun. The sun is walking you up for behind your curtain. You body know is day know. It has forgot you’re only sleeping since 4 hours.
There’s tons of possible reasons for this:
Did you recently hit maybe age 35 or older?
Drinking more in the evening?
Working out less?
Stressed out in general?
Too much screen time before bed?
Thin curtains and not realizing the sun comes up earlier every day as summer approaches?
Birds?
Something you can hear outside that’s waking up, like a loud car that drives by at the same time, people talking, etc.?
Impending sense of doom overall?
Impending doom of 35 or more stressed out birds before a talking car approaches
I usually blame the birds, but the talking car deserves some shade.
Don’t take it out of the birds they’re just stressed
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
The sun has been raising earlier so I have been waking up earlier. Today woke up at 6am
Yes I am. Seems to happen to me every time the season changes.
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.
It’s the only time I can get any worms
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.
Maybe its due to the latestagecapitalism.exe virus has been infecting “earth” gameservers? Which would explain the missing serotonin.dll files in some player characters, which causes the “depression” debuff, and thus fucking up their sleepcycle.sys process.
Oh dear, Earth runs on Windows? That explains so much
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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.
