Wide awake
By Kevin
@kevin1877uk (36987)
October 17, 2016 6:52pm CST
Wide awake
I just don’t understand it, between 7 and 10pm I could easily go to bed, but I know come midnight, 1am I’ll be awake and can’t get back to sleep. Now it’s almost 1am here in the UK and I’m wide awake, maybe I should have had a few hours sleep.
Around 10pm I seem to wake up, it doesn’t make sense why I’m so sleepy between those times and then be wide awake. I know my body always been out, I guess it’s doing something different for a change, but I’m not liking it, feeling so tired in the evening.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Oct 16
I go to bed around 10pm regularly - and around 4am I am always waking up - wide awake too. I am thinking 6 hours of sleep must be sufficient for me . . . but I really don't want to get up at 4am 
. It takes me a while, but then I do get to sleep eventually . . . and then I have to wake up at 6am automatically (I think then its just a 1 1/2 hour nap 
).
. It takes me a while, but then I do get to sleep eventually . . . and then I have to wake up at 6am automatically (I think then its just a 1 1/2 hour nap ).1 person likes this
@kevin1877uk (36987)
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18 Oct 16
I guess we all have different sleep patterns. I wonder who goes to bed say, at 11pm and sleep all the way through until 7am. It would be interesting to see if anyone does.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Oct 16
@kevin1877uk How nice that would be! For me, my sleep patterns have been shot since I had kids and I've been living with on and off sleep for ever a decade now.
and I've been living with on and off sleep for ever a decade now.1 person likes this
@kevin1877uk (36987)
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18 Oct 16
@much2say It would be so nice to get a full 8 hours sleep, just doesn't have to me. Yes I agree with you having kids doesn't help with sleep lol.
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@5thHouse (1678)
• Sheffield, England
18 Oct 16
A bit similar here. I feel ready for bed by around 10ish and then I have a wakeful spell around 1.30ish, sometimes don't drop off again until about 3.00. Then I wake up properly around 6.30 and get up. I sometimes wonder if I never recovered from those baby routines, getting up in the night when the kids were small and I've lost my ability to sleep through.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Oct 16
maybe your body wants you to sleep more than once, but for shorter periods of time
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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18 Oct 16
You may well be right there, just getting older lol.
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@AliCanary (4459)
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18 Oct 16
I have the same problem--if I try to go to bed early, I'm likely to sleep only a few hours and then be wide awake in the middle of the night. I once observed that, if left completely to my own schedule, that I tend to be a night owl and wake up around 1pm, which is the time I was born. I wonder if you were born at 10am, and your body set its "clock" from there.
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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18 Oct 16
I was born at 3:15am and always been a major night out all my life, ever since I can remember. Maybe I'm just needing a nap or something. If I go to sleep around 3/4am I sleep better than if I try and sleep say 11pm-midnight. I know I did sleep better when I lived in California, I felt my body was on the right time zone. and was ready for bed by about 10/11pm and normally had a good night sleep, unlike being here in the UK.
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