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
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
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.
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.
I had this happen around 35. Job, family related stress, and age are my best guess. Ambien was great for getting to sleep, but would wear off and I’d still wake up, same with the extended release. My doctor decided to try 10mg of Valium. This gets me through the night for years now. I still wake up, but it keeps the panic of existence from setting in and I’m able to turn over and get back to sleep.
The sun has been raising earlier so I have been waking up earlier. Today woke up at 6am
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.
Yes I am. Seems to happen to me every time the season changes.
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It’s the only time I can get any worms
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.
I read all the comments, they’re all wrong. It’s actually the Moon energy flow that’s moving from wax on to wax off. Or was it wax off to wax on? I forget. Anyway, you need to surround yourself with anti wax on wax off energy stones or pro wax off wax on energy absorbing stones.
Just place one above your pillow on a stand, shake it a little while lying down and you will soon be on your way to having a restful and peaceful sleep.
There was this rich ass family who build a new house in a pretty wealthy neighborhood and on a pretty steep hill. It was steep and rocky, so just the building process and the land was super expensive, but hey what are you gonna do.
The architect was some weirdo and i never liked him. He was very alternative in all the wrong ways. Despite it being a new modern house, they used natural clay for the walls and crap like that. I’m not saying clay walls and natural walls are crap per se, but they will never be “new” they always crack and you’ll always have slight problems, and the amount of money you spend more to get less is also kind of staggering.
So to hold the clay in place, they used a fiberglass net. But they also had a net that was made of algea, super turbo expensive. So one day, they finished the bedroom walls and the architect came over and he atarted asking where they used what net. The guy was a bit confused and said: they used fiberglass here here and here and algea here, like he said. The guy just absolutely lost his shit: “WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID? THE ALGEA NET GOES ON THE HEAD SIDE OF THE BED, SO THE COSMIC RAYS CAN’T PENETRATE IT” right right right, who’s supposed to be stupid here?
In my current opinion, it’s the architect. We can’t expect everyone to have the same knowledge or there wouldn’t have been a need to hire the architect. He either should’ve enlightened them beforehand or be present during the installation.
Coincidentally, same here. The sun is rising earlier and I have a ton of light in my bedroom
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.
Yes! Used to be a night owl but I’ve been getting up at 5am for no reason for a while now. I quite like it tbh. I feed birds on my windowsill, play with my cat, have coffee and breakfast and check the news, all without feeling like I should be doing something else because there’s only so much you can do this early. I’m also no longer late all the time.
Alcohol can contribute to sleep disruption, even in small quantities
