Do You Often Wake Up Between 2-4 AM? Here’s What It Means
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2022
- Do you often wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep? Many people wake up too early and won’t return to good rest until much later - if it happens at all. Today we’ll find out why!
Sources:
Circadian Rhythms
www.nigms.nih.gov/education/f...
Why You Wake At The Same Time Every Night
www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep...
What Is Deep Sleep and Why Is It Important?
www.healthline.com/health/dee...
Natural Patterns of Sleep
healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/...
Why Do I Wake Up at the Same Time Every Night
health.osu.edu/health/general...
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Let me save you 10 minutes. STRESS is why you wake up between 2-4.
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grateful for this. The video seemed to be going on for ages without actually saying anything.
@@stuff6893 😭🤧😣
News is my nightmare
Thanks!
I'm grateful to live in a quiet rural town with very little light pollution. Lots of times I wake up at around 2 am to use the bathroom. If it's a beautiful starry night, I drink a little milk and gaze at the stars and hear the occasional owl. This peaceful interlude usually helps me resume my sleep.
Sounds beautiful, Mrs G - I guess it's a good thing you don't sleep through that :)
Mrs. G, I have reflux, so, I’d skip the milk. But, the rest of your description works for me!👍
I got woken up by a skunk 🦨 just by the smell and that wasn't a perfume smell
I would rather live in a rent adjusted apartment in the city than live in a rural area around rural people with Trumptard signs in their yard from 3 years ago.
What a wonderful idea as I waken a lot around 3or 4 someone said to me it’s a sign you’re spiritual… getting back to sleep can be difficult so I’ll do this meditative practice and I live in a beautiful remote area in the countryside too…in Ireland , thanks 🙏
Whoever is reading this, I pray that whatever you’re growing through gets better and whatever you’re battling with makes your situation better as you’re continuing to be a better person each day. I have faith that you’ll turn out great as your circumstances will change. Have a fantastic day! You got this! 🤗💪🏼❤
Amen
Amen
Hari Om 🙏🙇
Thank you so much!!! I've just gone through a sad period in my life. I feel much more stronger after reading this. Maybe I should just let the past end and restart my life, a new life without darkness and sadness. God bless you! Wish you health, happiness and an amazing life!
Ok!
This video was so boring I fell asleep for 8 hrs straight without waking up between 2-4 AM. Thank you TopThink team for solving my problem, you are the best.
i thought this video affect my circadian rythm too because i felt the same as you.
@@cumalihat-lihat7229 yeah brother, they know what they are doing.
😂
Yes, agreed - he speaks like a game show host and does not get to the point.
Lol. I never even bothered to watch it.
I hate waking up between 2 and 4. then i can't fall back asleep. when i eventually do, then I'm struggling to get up for work
Yes It happens to me to
The solutions start at 7:35
I’ve learned to stretch every muscle before bed. That definitely helps relax my body enough to sleep better
I find my sleep becomes more erratic as I've gotten older. Sometimes I get a good night's rest, other times I lay awake for hours. Deep sleep becomes less frequent and dozing off in the day time becomes more of a "thing". And don't get me started on the twice - yearly switches between standard and daylight saving time.
Too much sugar causes sleep disruption
@@sandrasue44 too much sugar and too much news
@@lorettanericcio-bohlman567
You're exactly right, I am the very worse for the news.
The negative changes to sleep seen in aging adults are well known. They are all risk factors for ill health and dementia. Fight them like the plague. Avoid naps during the day unless acutely ill. Get out into sunshine and boost your adenosine. Adjust your bedtime 10 minutes per day for 6 days before the clocks change.
Daylight saving is pure punishment, and proof that humans are not rational beings
Actually, I enjoy waking up in the middle of the night and have all my life. 11-3 and 3:15 to 6-7 am. I get up, pee, eye drops, sip of water enjoy the stillness, peace and quiet then back to sleep. Works for me without any detrimental effects.
It's very Kool, because (after I use restroom,) I think to myself, "Yay! I have 2 and a half more hours to sleep!"
been waking up at this hours for consecutive days now. i eat and do my thing like clean then around noon the following day, i sleep or take a nap..
How do u fall back to sleep
@@nadezdha746 yeah me too, but then I still can’t fall back to sleep, ugh
It’s perfectly normal. The problem for some is falling back asleep.
I am one of those 2 - 4 wake-uppers. It is so depressing to go through the day feeling tired. I have a bad habit of getting into bed and using my iPad for awhile before turning off the lights and going to sleep. Tonight…no iPad. Just pet my kitty and and call it a day. I hope this helps.
I enjoy it. It’s the only time I have to myself when nothing is expected of me 🤣
To anyone dealing with this. I go to sleep at 11pm. So for me 9pm comes no more phone. No more tv. I prepare my things for the next day. 10pm I'm in bed i do my 20 min meditation. Then I read till my eyes are just shutting on their own. Do this every night especially on nights where you will get to sleep in the next day. Unfortunately I have a very stressful job and if I don't do this I will wake up randomly at 3am. And I'll remember I was dreaming about work. I'll have a terrible day because I won't be able to concentrate because I'm so tired. It's a chore but it's the only thing that works for me. I know it's stress because it's peak season for me and I'm dealing with it right now.
Thanx for sharing your story and hats off for the way you handle your situation
I just woke up 30 minutes ago, and i found this content
Wow amazing
Lol
In Eastern Medicine this specific 2-4 am wake cycle is considered a sign of "adrenal fatigue." Good basic suggestions here but for me it was important to learn about the process of healing adrenal fatigue. You wake up because the adrenals are starving. It helped me to have a small protien/carb balanced snack when I woke up in the night (like a peanut butter cracker, just a few bites) or even just before bed to prevent waking up. In Eastern Medicine the ideal time to sleep and support the healing of the adreanals is 7-9am and this helped me a lot too. Good luck to anyone out there suffering from insomnia and sleep issues. Hope maybe this helps too!
Quitting caffeine will help as well
Makes sense. If I overwork or overtrain I wake up at 3
@@geraldfriend256 me too
milk is good
@@sunovadistributionn.z.693 And guess what it is 3:30 am here in Austin Texas g nite
I work 3rd shift. I stay awake after my last day, almost 26 hours, until night but still wake up at 2am. I always just thought I was waking up at that time because that was my normal lunch time.
Thank you and thank you so much for sharing it’s a beautiful simple explanation.please keep the good work .
This guy’s voice helps me sleep. 💜🙏🏾🦋
We wake up because people have always done so.
It used to be known as “first sleep” at “second sleep”. There are even old accounts that mention these terms. Sleeping eight hours at a stretch is an invention of the Industrial Revolution, when workers needed to be on the clock for their shift.
The wakefulness in between was ideal for praying, meditation, a snack- even visiting the neighbors! This last idea doesn’t go over well nowadays.
Not everyone. I go to sleep and if my insomniac husband doesn't wake me with lights on, watching videos, etc, I sleep 7/1/2 to 8 hrs solid. I have done this my whole life. Caffeine, alcohol, fatty foods, stress have zero effect. My husband has severe sleep issues as do 8 of his siblings. His grandmother, his children. It's genetic.
I sleep 7 hrs in a 24 hour period
Four hours in the early AM and 3 hrs late afternoon into evening. My body likes this...and it's very efficient.
Nightshift workers will split their sleep like this. Four hour sleep when they get home in the morning, then another 3-4 hour sleep prior to their shift.
As I got older I found that I would get rebound insomnia from drinking alcohol. I was beyond my youthful indiscretions with alcohol and only drank moderately by the time I started having insomnia. I would fall asleep, but then I would wake up a couple hours later and then lie, exhausted but unable to sleep, until the alarm went off. If I didn't have to get up, I could get back to sleep after about 5 hours. Not good if you have to work in the morning. Not drinking fixes the issue for me.
How true what you said. Sad truth many are in denial, including me. Need to rethink drinking as I have aged.
I once worked rotating swing shift and midshift for over a year, and that seems to have f’d up my sleep cycle for all of eternity.
Same here. My sleep is a mess,..
I had to give up working nights. Work all night, come home and sleep for 1 hour, back up for the rest of the day. Yeah. I’m done. Been working days ever since, and have improved my sleep. I even use the “Navy technique” for falling to sleep fast. It works most of the time.
Very informative video. Thank you!
For me, all addictions, habits, subconscious thoughts and guilty pleasures are just more pleasurable between 2-4 in the morning. Plus, I feel more alive under the cover of night.
Evil
"Guilty pleasures", 😏
Thank u colorfull show I need the encouragement going thru a bad time Nick from KC,mo
I am 77 and can't remember ever in my life feeling wide awake and alert when I wake no matter what time it was. I struggled with school as a child because of this. I struggled with work as an adult, and it wasn't any better with a swing shift. Now at retirement, I sleep in stages. When I do wake up and can't just roll over and fall asleep again, I get up and sit and read for an hour or two or even just stay up and start my day at 4 or 5 am and take a nap latter. I don't like to take naps, though, because I have to go through this waking process twice. Once is quite enough, thank you. I have decided I don't have a circadian clock, and my older brother says the same thing. My younger brother (age 75) says he usually goes to bed at 3 am same as me, but he has never complained about actual sleep problems. So, you really lost me at "waking up refreshed." I always wake up in a fog and spend at least 15 minutes to an hour to feel awake. Sometimes it takes several hours. I liken it to warmed over death or waking from a coma. Sometimes it takes hours. I talked to several doctors over the years about this when I was younger and had to work, and they say I will probably never sleep "normal" as this is normal for me . Some wanted to drug me into oblivion which I won't do. I have no health issues or environmental issues that are causing this. I have lived in different parts of the country, so it is not where I live that's the problem. So, this is how I live; I don't like it, but I am totally used to it.
Same for me, all my life (I’m 67).
Oh the night life it ain't no good life, but it's my life. I know what you mean.
I can relate. My circadian rhythm is completely messed up and has been for the last twenty years. I work at a business that's open 24 hours a day and I work every shift. Two morning shifts, two swing shifts, and one overnight shift every week. That's if my employees stay healthy, otherwise I work additional shifts. My days off are split so I get a maximum of 32 hours off at a time. When I have those days off, I end up sleeping between 18 to 20 hours. I don't sleep through, but usually wake up for three hours before going back to sleep, and waking up after that second sleep is VERY hard no matter how much time I've slept.
Sounds like ADHD. Look into it.
I’m pretty sure your bank account is large, like most people that cannot sleep, yet the less you have, sleep better, happier, healthy ,
Had a difficult time falling/staying asleep after a breakup. Hit the gym regularly and give it time.
I am subscribing this channel for my English learning, but this time you gave me excellent insight about my sleeplessness in the midnight. I had known that we experience rem sleep around two o'clock. But now I know that sleep is disrupted by the cortisol secreted by my inappropriate beviour or stress. I will try changing my lifestyle and consideration but without seriousness to relax myself. Anyway, I feel very eased by this video. Thankyou so much !
When I wake up at that time, it is usually because my prostrate says I need to go. Getting old sucks. When I was young, I needed only 4 or 5 hours of sleep. The older I get the easier it is to sleep at any time.
It means your sleep paralysis demon is trying to contact you about your car's extended warranty.
Thanks for clearing that up! 😉
Lmao, I’m familiar with both
Would be funnier if there actually was no such thing as a sleep demon
Ctfu 🤣 I needed that!
That's me almost every night it sucks.
see this insinuates I actually go to sleep before 2am... I've not been on a regular sleep schedule since high school and even then I always stayed up til 2 and 3 in the morning. I sleep when I'm tired and get up when I'm awake. I don't conform to societal norms and when I work I usually work 4pm-12am shifts
I usually go to bed at 8 and get up between 3:30 and 4. That was my habit when I worked had to be to work at 6 with an hour drive. I’m retired now and tried staying up later but still get up at 4.
I had been waking up at 3 AM 4 or 5 times a week for up to 2 hours due to stress/anxiety for a couple of years. Finally talked to my doctor and she prescribed Trazadone. Common drug to help with sleep. Now maybe once a week I wake and can't back to sleep for some time.
Peace, Serenity, and Gods word is good for you.
Thanks recently i had this phenomenon. I think it is the stress from the work might play a role here. I will adjust the stress by doing some yogas and others to reduce the pressure for a continuous high quality sleep in the evening. So my biological clock will not interrupt me in the middle of the night for a wake up. Thanks.
Hope everyone has a better sleep schedule good luck ❤listen to some nice music, de stress. It will be okay ( woke up at 2 and now it’s 2:20 good night lol)
Hard for me to wake up at 2-4 AM when I'm usually going to sleep at 5 AM 😂
I’m a very spiritual person, and they do say that if you wake up between the hours of 3am and 5am, it’s because someone from the spirit world is trying to tell you something, I didn’t say it, someone who has a podcast said it but, I can’t remember who it was.
Lifting weights in the evening fixed this for me.
I start my day at 2:30 am, head to the gym because my body is my temple. I find it makes me more productive throughout the day as well and it also frees up my evenings.
sometimes its a bless, because u know u still have hours to sleep before going to work hahaha
Not just stirring awake, we are talking eyes wide open awake. Nothing disruptive, just amusing
That part about stress explains why most medical workers don’t sleep well. All many of us know is stress. We live with it 24/7 due to the work we do. I have to nap after a good showier after work. Otherwise I end up falling asleep in my chair or sofa. My body and brain just want to tap out after work. If only jobs I actually enjoy paid a proper living wage 😭. Then I’d have less stress and feel better.
i wake up in this time period most nights, busting for a pee. my stress levels have gone down in the last few years and i have thicker curtains to block the streetlight, but no change in my early morning waking
I have been getting up around 3am for about 30 years. I go to bed around 7:30pm. At 5 am I’m out for a one to two hour run.
I look forward to it every day!
Relax, and get that run in!
That’s me too! Got to have my run everyday …it’s medicine
It's mainly a problem when I have to get up for work or an appointment early, or if I have to be alert to work that evening.
I actualy love the stillness in the hourser between 4-6
This happened when I was pregnant. I took to keeping a pile of of magazines, books, and my journal on a table where I could retrieve them in the dark. Why fight it? Now I watch "Monk", Turner Classic Movies, read The New Yorker, go back to bed.
I don't fight it. Im breaking from all expectations and living a vibrational life. I get plenty of rest because I control my intentions.
Nice I love getting up that early meditate makes my day better
@@skybird5845 yes! Exactly that! I've been using the gateway meditation vids lately, they are decent for reconnecting to our spiritual life.
Waking up at these times of early morning still happen and I don't have problems with it I watch a video clip, movie or program and fall back to sleep or fall asleep reading a good book
Last night around 2am I woke up and could feel burning smell in my room. I started panicking but after short time the smell was gone and there was nothing in the room that was burning or on fire. Did anyone experienced this ?
Im here in my bed right now and it is 2:27 am. Thank you for making this video
I like waking up in the middle of the night, then realizing I can go back to sleep for another 3 or 4 hours. Sometimes I do have trouble going to sleep at night, but I usually go right to sleep if I wake up in the middle of the night (usually if it happens it is for a quick trip and back to the bathroom).
Watched this video on my 30 minute lunch break at Wegmans while walking 🚶♂️
Helpful
Thank you this really helped me I recently loss my mom and my entire family is having this issue we can now look at some other things that could help thank you
My condolences
wish you lots of strength
Sending much love to you and your family 💛🙏🏻
I am so sorry about the loss of your mom.
over the past 6 months i have started waking up around 3.30am'ish quite constantly. i fall asleep at about 10pm no problem. i think it is due to too much screen time as i also read e-books in the evening. i drift awake into all sorts of cool imaginary adventures and then have to remind myself I need to go back to sleep. not perfect but the best thing i can do is count my breathing - and try to lock out all other thoughts. best solution i have found so far. but need to change my screen time routine...
Get the blue light blocking glasses from online. It helps restore your natural melatonin if you watch tv or use devices.
4:20 is the most common case when I wake up
I wake like this most nights. It's no problem. Don't worry. Anxiety is worse than being awake.
Tell me 24/7 panic attack all day long
@@christinemott8799 I suffered from panic disorder in the past. I highly recommend the books of Dr. Claire Weekes. She was an Australian doctor who was way ahead of her time. She labels anxiety and panic disorder as nervous illness.
This channel should be as popular as ABC NBC or CNN or whatever. This should be on cable TV just saying
When I wake up at that time, I go on toilett, making the best out of it. Another optimistic idea might be to go outside, but without shopping at the bakery that is not so usefull as it is still too early for that too.
A crazy but long term avoiding strategy, might be to migrate to 2 time zones in east direction, which nobody would really consider as it would be too expensive & too far away for daily travel from/to your home.
It’s when the Sprit realm communicates with us most. Because that’s when we are in the deepest of sleep.
@a man no.
@a man no.
Neither do I, how about enlightening us?
Yes, I wake up often at 333 and 444. Sometimes I like it and sometimes I get frustrated, and ask them to slow down and let me rest please.
@a man what does it mean please???
I get up between these hours to talk with God. My most peaceful moments
I start my work day at 4:00 a.m. in the morning and I'm in Bed at 8:00 p.m. this is gon on for many many years due to my job 🙂
Hum, and I always thought it was because my alarm clock went off at 3:15! 😊
Hey great creator please make a video about effects of power nap on our brain functioning (active/passive/relaxed state) also explaining secretion of those chemicals (melatonin, cortisol, dopamine, etc).
If such video already made, please anyone ping it here in the comments.
Thank you
I'm awake at 4am watching this....
I went to bed at 6pm, so thanks for the info
CZcams suggested this.
I'm watching at 3-30. 😆
Thank You
I typically wake up at 2 and 4 in the morning, maybe more frequently. I’ve got used to it.
3 AM in the morning is the witching hour.
I am in my sixties and still employed for the reason of having a purpose, a reason to get up, someplace to go, and something to do.
I work from 0600hrs. to 1300hrs.. Not a physically or mentally demanding job. Just something simple.
I get up at 0415hrs. to be on the job at 0600hrs.
Getting up that early gives me time to take a leisurely visit to the bathroom.
Cook and eat a good healthy breakfast. (I don't smoke).
Clean up afterwards and put together a nice lunch to take to work for myself.
I rarely eat a solid dinner. Dinner usually consist of yogurt, fresh fruit, peanut butter, mixed nuts.... and I eat that around 1500hrs.
Here's the kicker.
I get really sleepy around 1600hrs to 1700hrs and lay down to take a nap usually lasting about three hours.
I wake up and stay up till around 2330hrs. and then go back to bed and sleep all night till 0415hrs. and then start it all over again.
I am wondering about that nap I can't seem to fight off.
I'd like to stay up till about 2100hrs. after work and then go to bed once and sleep all night till 0415hrs.
But, this pattern does seem to work for me and I seem to be able to adjust it for my days off without much trouble.
Maybe I should just leave well enough alone.
Anybody got any thoughts on this?
Ever since high school (I’m 55 now) I have had trouble sleeping. Never have been able to get on a schedule no matter what I have tried.
Getting ready for work
Who is watching this video after waking up between 2-4 am like me?
That's happens to me on occasion try to stay awake looking at a video on the phone and then I will sleep 😴 but I will get up at 5am or 6am or 7am but I usually get up at 8am but I'm getting cramps in my legs..... I find out that hypnosis music 🎼🎶 is good it depends on what you want to hear 🙉
I usually crash and over sleep but the past few days I crash early and then 1am I have to pee and I can't go back to sleep even though I'm so tired. I wonder if it's a dip in blood sugar or cortisol levels. I've always been over stressed and never had a problem sleeping but something has changed. I have lowered my cups of ☕️ and that seems to do it. Like it's effecting my cortisol at night.
I usually wake up at almost exactly 4 o'clock almost every night. Then I drift into and out of sleep over the next few hours until, I finally just give up and get up.
Has anyone else had success with mouth taping at night? I used to wake up in the middle of the night with super dry mouth and then i discovered mouth taping and i now sleep through the night.
Great video. Now can you explain why this video put me to sleep?
im a fireman who has to get up 2 or 3 times after midnight when i work (i work 24 hrs). any advice for me, or am i screwed?
Does your sleep cycle reset after waking up in the middle of the night or does it continue once you fall asleep again?
Check out histamine intolerance/MCAS, particularly if your insomnia appeared or worsened after covid or other viral infection. I had the 3am wakeups (and tachycardia) for over 30 years till I began treating HI post-covid and now I sleep solidly unless I make a histamine mistake. God bless ❤️🙏❤️
Sometimes you just have to wake up and pee! 😂
Make sure you’re not sleeping in a water damaged space with mold. Mold and it’s various metabolic byproducts cause crazy insomnia, fatigue, brain fog, etc.
Thanks so much for this info
I wake up, pray, then go right back to sleep.
Wow this come at the right time😂 been doing this for the past few days now at 2
Same here 😕
Me too, like right now.
I get my 8 hours of sleep. In bed by 8pm. After years of having to been at work at 5am. My body is used to that schedule.
I have dysautonomia (essentially if it's controlled by the brainstem, it's likely fucked up- circadian rhythm disorders, heart rate going too slow or fast- I go fast, blood pressure being too high or low- I go high, breathing- particularly while sleeping-> I have central sleep apnea, digestive tract issues) and also have adrenal insufficiency due to HPA axis issues from meds affecting the hormone secretion of the hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands (not enough cortisol is produced by my body) along with having severe chronic pain issues.
As such, I am on quite a few meds to try to force my brain to relax and rest but they don't always work.
I have fibro and believe I have dystonia and/or POTS. How were you diagnosed?
Me too.
Medication controls my sleep. I'm very grateful to it.
Something not touched upon is Short Sleep Syndrome (SSS) ... I sleep 3 to 4 hours a night .. have most of my life and just recently found out what it was. I rarely nap and have no ill effects from it. What I have found out that only 1% of the population has this. It is a blessing and a curse! 🤠
I have joined a gym to manage my sleep better & work on my figure
Very Informative video. But it is easier to say my back hurts.Because my beds both of them suck.
My question is... Why do I go to sleep between 2 and 4am (or even later)?
I often wake up at those times, but it's usually for the toilet. I'm between a rock and a hard place. I use a sleep tea to help me sleep, but at age 65 that usually means I'll need the toilet in the early hours. Trouble is, I'm a lark and find it hard to drop back off once awake. Any advise? Thanks
Trade that Lark for a newer car. Lark was made by Studebaker and that company was out of business since 1966.
Can you make another one on
" DO YOU OFTEN GO SLEEP AT 2AM"that depicts me more
For me it means my dog wants to go out! 😂🐕
Trouble sleeping ? Not feeling rested during the day? Schedule an appointment at a Sleep Clinic. Most likely you have sleep apnea. I also listen to an app for dreamscapes sounds. I average 8-10 hours of sleep without waking up. This drowns out my mind stressing while lying down. Sleep with your pet also works.
Thanks
I wish that was the case. I don't even go to bed doing till 5am lol
Same