Does anyone wake up daily at 3am?

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?

I 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.

On 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

I'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!

I also have been waking up between 3am and 4am. Not sure why, but I find it difficult to fall back asleep after waking up.
I retired last year, not very active since I retired but I don’t sleep during the day.

Most have a similar sleep cycle which is essentially two cycles of stage 1, 2, 3 and 4, for around 4 hours and then it starts over again. Many of us get the one cycle only and it's best to get up instead of tossing and turning for the second cycle. I feel so much better, and have no pain in body, when I get up and then later take a nap. Even though I total just 6 hours with 4 and then a 2 hour nap, I feel much better than 8 or 9 hours of what I described above. If you lay in bed not sleeping well it's what I call "anti-sleep" which the opposite of healthy sleep, causing body pain etc..

It's most likely associated with you retiring.... try to be more active in the daytime. A good 1 hour walk or 2 half hour walks is a great thing to do. Or join an exercise class that meets daily....they have them for seniors. Or if you like to swim, try going to an open swim pool in your area. The YMCA has them. My mom had an exercise bike that she rode for 15-20 minutes a day. Enjoy retirement and maybe you don't mind waking up at 3am and not being able to fall back to sleep. That's okay. But it would drive me bonkers! I guess I'd try staying up later maybe. Take care!

I could not live without my sleep pills! 🙂