3:38AM...waking every night

[ProdigalJunkMail]

it's starting to get old. every night i wake at 3:38AM. no alarm or anything like that. nothing going on that SHOULD be waking me. no noises. no AC kicking on. not waking uncomfortable or hot or anything.

just annoying. i'll get back to sleep in an hour or so...

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[Kaleva]

1. The "time to make the doughnuts" spirit has found a new host!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. time for a career change then

i mean, i like doughnuts...

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[Kaleva]

3. That is weird though for you to wake up everynight at that time.

For your brain to know exactly what time it is and then for some unknown reason, cause you to wake up.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. the thing that makes it even more strange is

that I have just returned home from a business trip where I did NOT wake at that time. seems like it must be environmental. just cannot think what would be happening at that time to wake me.

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[EastTennesseeDem]

4. It used to be 4:17 for me.

For months in a row. I don't know what it was. 4:17 was it.

Is there any explanation for this kind of thing?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. haven't found a good one yet

this is now about 5 weeks of this. weekdays...weekends. varied times getting to bed. weird...

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[Scuba]

7. Welcome to "you're getting older land"

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. yeah...that thought crossed my mind...

just the oddity of 3:38 and the consistency that prompted the post.

thanks for the reminder

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[IDemo]

9. Not so unusual

The myth of the eight-hour sleep

We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

[ProdigalJunkMail]

10. I am not so much interested in the fact that I wake

just the curiosity of it being so bloody consistent.

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[RebelOne]

11. Your internal clock is out of whack. n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. indeed... n/t

[IcyPeas]

12. waking up to early is sometimes

associated with anxiety.

drinking can also shorten your sleep (even though it may initially make you sleepy).

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. I don't really drink...a beer every now and again

and life is pretty good...so I am not sure anxiety applies...but I suppose some self examination might be in order. the 3:38ness of it is what is bothersome...

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[orleans]

24. are you up now? i am. obviously.

not really sure about the time or what it means. it's kinda cool. maybe something for you to think about/figure out. is it an old address?

i go through periods that when i glance at the clock when i go into my bedroom the time just happens to be my address. am or pm. i'm not sure what that means either.

[Beaverhausen]

13. That happens to me- the most recent was 6:16. I thought it might be a neighbors alarm clock

it is frustrating, isn't it?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

16. yeah, a little...

not so sure what to think of it. like i said upthread, seems like it must be environmental; i just can't figure what happens at 3:38 every stinking day...

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Sometimes your brain will wake you up at a certain time...

And then I've heard that your body gets used to waking up at that time, and so a rhythm is set up. A schedule, if you will...

That may be what's happening here.

Hope you get past it! They don't last forever, though it might feel like it.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. thanks...

it's really not soooo bad. it is only about an hour before I normally get up anyway...just weird.

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[lunatica]

18. I wake up aroung 3:30 am every morning too

I just get up and get on the computer until I have to get ready for work. I don't mind it anymore. It gives me hours of downtime to do what I like before the grind of work.

[Noodleboy13]

20. Straight out of the Amityville Horror

You've got ghosts.
Or demons.
Or both.

Who ya gonna call....
Ghostbusters!

peace,
Noodleboy

[ProdigalJunkMail]

26. definitely demons... :-) n/t

[vanlassie]

21. Happens to me too.

I think it could even be something like an automatic sprinkler kicking off down block, or something similar. I'm asleep when it happens, so....I don't know!

[noamnety]

22. I think I would have to set my alarm to 3:30 just once

so I could be awake to listen to what the heck's happening at 3:38.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. I did do just that

a couple of weeks into this oddity...and there was nothing that I could pick up that should have woken me up. I am beginning to wonder if there is some sort of low-level vibration or something that is just out of my ability to consciously sense.

it is a mystery...kind of a fun one.

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[progressoid]

23. That usually happens just after the aliens have finished their probing