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Does anyone wake up daily at 3am?
I have problems falling sleep. I haven’t able to have good night sleep as fatas I can remember. Went I finally fell sleep I have broken sleep pattern, and I wake up every night at 3am, I do not know why and I cannot fall sleep again, sometimes I go back to sleep at 6am. I do not feel refreshed in the morning. I have black circle under my eyes from the lack of sleep. Also feel irritated, sad, and brain fog/forgetful from lack of sleep. This is terrible. Any one have similar issues. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
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3:00 am. On the dot. It's uncanny. Annoying. I feel good. 2:55 am. Maybe 3:20 am. What the heck. Are we responding a beacon somewhere emitting a very special frequency just for us?
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1 ReactionI am also on the 3 AM wake up list. I try to be in bed by 10, but usually asleep by 11. CBD tincture (under the tongue) helps tremendously, and I have many posts on Mayo here about my experience. But after several months the liver builds up a tolerance, and it doesn’t work. Then you need to go off for three months and restart. BTW I have tried tart cherry juice concentrate before bed and a bunch of other OTC stuff and homemade remedies and nothing helps me.
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1 ReactionOn going for about 10 years
I get sleepy around 6pm an hour or two later during summer, and my body wakes up at 3 am for years, I started thinking it was a mechanism within my home, then I thought it did manifested during the time frame when the electric company did the installation of digital meters.
So now I’m thinking it’s the wiring system behind the walls link to the meters, waking everyone that are naturally light sleepers up at 3 am to 4am..
Shahidah Huddleston
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2 ReactionsI've dealt with this most of my life. There was a time when I simply got up after 3 to 4 hours instead of tossing and turning the rest of the night and just started my day. Later I took a good solid nap and I felt great. If you can do a schedule like that I highly recommend it.
I do not recommend melatonin or other sleep aids except possibly low dose Trazadone which is widely used and very safe. Melatonin is a hormone and if you take it your body stops making it. You can make it naturally by getting up early and getting direct sunlight which sets your internal clock.
I only sleep well when I live like a monk.....never get upset, work easily but all day, read, meditate, get early sunlight....but I can't live like a monk....it's not in me.
I too wake up in the middle of the nite, so I drink sleepy time tea made from Celestial Tea, I drink it an hour before I go to bed, and meditate it helps me. Hope this helps , they also make it with 5 grams of melatonin, there are 2 kinds one with melatonin and one with out.
Yes, it is eerie!