waking up in the middle of the night at the same time  

I think it happens to many people including myself. My guess is that it is a kind of self hypnosis. As a youth, I always had a habit of sleeping in, often til noon if no one disturbed me. Yet, on special occasions, I could get up at any hour without using an alarm clock. For example, I would wake up before dawn to go on fishing trips.
Now, forty years on, I still wake up early for no apparent reason some days. I am wide awake and cannot go back to sleep on those occasions. It's odd, it's frustrating, but it's probably quite normal!

Actually its very normal waking up in the middle of the night. I do like that. Especially I want to drink water or taking a leak. I just cant control my body. It really disturbed me while am asleep. Even so, I already accept what I am now. But waking in 3 am thing, its just a superstition. So its not crazy its normal.

there are times when my body is awakened at the first light of the morning. I'm really not a morning person but my body wants to wake up even if my mind still wants to go to sleep. I can't do anything but to wake up since I feel the urge to do something already rather than lay in bed.

i can relate..
i think its because our brain must be active on that time for example a cellphone that being charge when its not that empty it will be full in just some minutes unlike its totally empty..
or sometimes i look at it as if a ghost wakes me up because as i read about ghost there are much active when we are sleeping because our mind are travelling in a low frequency..
you can also go to a doctor for medical insites..

Its normal.. I also expirience what u bein expiriencing for the 21 yrs.

Its normal.. I also expirience what u bein expiriencing for the past 21 yrs.

You often waked up at the same time 3:00 am, it was to be your habit, you should broke your habit to wake up at the middle of night, on the other hand, your neighbors and brother's affect will cause your this habit. Your subconscious brain will remind you to wake up at the same time, you should broke this habit to sleep deeply. You can drink a cup of milk to sleep well. or you can find other good ways to help your sleeping. I don't believe the speaking of ghost, it's scientiest of sleeping.

hi adalie I think you will find a lot of people do wake up
around two or three o clock in the morning usually your body
call you for some reason, mine is to go to the bathroomn. also
for several years after my babies became toddlers I would wake
as though I still had to nurse a baby or fix a bottle. but that
passed away finally . Now in my senior years I wake aS nature
tells me to get to the bathroom.

My brother had also been like that. He was always waking up at 3:45am and sometimes he is scared of what might it be. We heard in a television program that if someone is waking up at this hour, chances are they have a "playmate." I don't know if its true but I don't think it's nothing if you're waking up at almost the same time often. It's weird to think that its nothing. Or maybe your biological rhythm has just gotten used to it. Its difficult to explain though why its not happening to you when you're not home. :)

I had a time when I was waking up almost every night between 2:30 and 4, and most of the time it was about 2:45

never did figure out what it was

but the last few months I've been waking up in the middle of the night - but I finally realized that the roomie was flushing the toilet with the door open and that was waking me up, so I asked if she'd shut the door

so the toilet doesn't wake me, but then the darn cats knocking over the recycling bucket was... oh, I don't wake up with a start, but it disturbs me enough to bring me up to where I realize I'm awake - and more important - SCAMP realizes I'm awake and has to come STOMP on me.

I love Scamp, I really do, and if ANY one wants to get ANY sleep, he has to be in the room with me... since he'll sit outside the door and show off all his Siamese until he's in my bedroom...