{"id":152647,"date":"2024-06-11T10:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=152647"},"modified":"2024-06-10T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:33:12","slug":"if-you-always-wake-up-between-3-5am-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/152647","title":{"rendered":"If You Always Wake Up Between 3 – 5AM, Here’s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If You Always Wake Up Between 3 - 5AM, Here&#039;s Why\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UCLipMnyCBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(bright guitar music)\r\n(writing utensils scratching) (ding) – [Amanda] Hey to Psych2Goers, and welcome back to another video. Are you having trouble\r\ngetting a full night’s rest? Do you go to bed at 11:00 pm hoping for a good night’s\r\nsleep but wind up waking somewhere between 3:00\r\nam and 5:00 am instead? (yawns) Do you feel tired, foggy, and sluggish when you don’t get enough sleep? A good night’s sleep is very\r\nimportant for your health. Are you struggling to get enough sleep at night because of this? If so, let’s find out\r\nwhat may be interfering with your natural sleep patterns. Number one, your lifestyle choices. How much of your daily and nightly routine do you build around ensuring\r\na good night’s sleep? Your daily and nightly routines are what will help determine how\r\nwell you sleep at night. These five things can\r\ndisturb your sleep patterns. Drinking caffeine or\r\nalcohol before going to bed. Eating food right before bedtime.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nStaying up late on your\r\nphone or your computer. Taking a nap too late\r\nin the day and smoking. Though we all wanna stay up to date on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. When you stay up late checking your feed and scrolling through your phone, it’ll only make getting to\r\nsleep that much harder for you. And with the business of your day, you might start to feel\r\nrun down and droopy-eyed. But if you lie down and take a nap in the late afternoon or early\r\nevening, you’ll be too alert and awake by bedtime to\r\neven be able to go to sleep. If you struggle with waking\r\nup in the middle of the night, think about your daily\r\nand nightly routines and try to weed out some bad habits that may be hindering you from getting proper sleep at night. If you make the changes you\r\nneed for a good night’s rest then you’ll be well on your way to sleeping through the night. Number two, your emotional state. Can you recall a period when you slept well every single night? Did you have better\r\nsleep during a lighter, happier time in your life? Your emotional state\r\nhas a significant effect on how you sleep and\r\nyour quality of sleep.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYour emotional state\r\ncan be left in turmoil if you’re experiencing a\r\ntime of heightened stress or anxiety, and this can\r\nlead to sleep disturbances. Stress and anxiety trigger your ingrained fighter flight feeling. This will elevate your heart rate, quicken your breathing, and increase the stress\r\nhormones in your body. All of which makes it more difficult for you to sleep peacefully. If you’re struggling with\r\nsleep and anxiety in your life, try a guided meditation before bedtime. Deep breathing exercises will also help you relax enough for sleep. Taking a hot shower or bath will help distress you enough to wind down properly for bedtime. These tips can help you\r\nwith your stress or anxiety and in turn, help you fall\r\nasleep and stay asleep.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/5430077\/pexels-photo-5430077.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\nNumber three, low blood sugar. Did you know that low\r\nblood sugar can cause your brain to wake you up\r\nin the middle of the night? Your brain is very active during the night as it regenerates, repairs, and converts your short-term memories into long-term memories while you sleep. However, since it’s so\r\nactive during the night, it also uses up a lot\r\nof your energy reserves. If you suffer from low blood sugar levels, your brain will consume\r\nmost of your energy reserves and think that you’ve run out of fuel. As a result, your brain\r\nwill release cortisol to make you hungry and wake you up so you can go get something to eat. If you find yourself routinely waking up and going to the kitchen to root around for a midnight snack, you may have low blood sugar levels and this might be the cause\r\nof your sleep disturbances.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf you’re having trouble\r\nsleeping through the night and waking up at odd hours do you now have a better sense of why this is happening to you? What are other reasons\r\nyou think could be waking you up at 3:00 am and 5:00 am? Share your thoughts with\r\nus in the comments below. Please like and share this\r\nvideo if it helped you and you think it could\r\nhelp someone else too.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe studies and references used are listed in the description below. Don’t forget to hit the subscribe button for more Psych2go videos\r\nand thank you for watching. 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(yawns) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/152647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If You Always Wake Up Between 3 – 5AM, Here’s Why<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,132],"tags":[61444,61446,34132,61420,34319,61417,5076,34292,34285,471,33781,957,33936,59794,59796,39665,702,59798,57354,4761,53306,845,53307,53057,61450,61434],"class_list":["post-152647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-causes-and-prevention","category-reducing-triggers","category-weird-stuff","tag-3-am","tag-5-am","tag-bedtime","tag-body-clock","tag-deep-sleep","tag-do-you-often-wake-up-between-3-and-5","tag-emotional","tag-energy","tag-fall-asleep","tag-health","tag-insomnia","tag-mental-health","tag-night","tag-psych-2-go","tag-psych-to-go","tag-psych2go","tag-psychology","tag-psychtogo","tag-self-help","tag-sleep","tag-sleep-problems","tag-sleeping","tag-sleeping-problems","tag-wake-up","tag-wake-up-between-3-and-5-am","tag-wake-up-early"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/htmlF_IMG_666705e89c04d.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152685,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152647\/revisions\/152685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}