So, for the last 5 days or so, I have been waking up every night between 4:25 and 4:35 for no reason.

I wake up wide awake and feeling much better than I do when I'm supposed to get up (7:30).

The problem is that once I'm awake, I have a lot of trouble falling asleep again, and that ruins my day because I don't get enough sleep.

So I need to figure out what this is. At first I thought it might be me being at the lowest point in my sleep cycle (every 90 minutes), as I tend to go to bed around 23:30, but then I realised there has been no consistent bed time in the last 5 days.

The other theory is that something happens at around 4:30 and wakes me up. Then once I'm awake I either don't hear it anymore, or it has stopped.

Any ideas?

I have similar things - currently 6:30 is the wake up time but it varies.

What are the light levels like coming into your room?

That can often wake you up.

Failing that, is there a main road nearby or something else that might make a noise at a fairly consistent time like a water heater or something?

Set your alarm for 4:15 and see if something happens at 4:30 that might wake you up.

That could be the time of night when the interdimensional rift opens, some beings from the other side start milling around in your room and disturbs your sleep.


I was having the same problem for a while. Many times I'd just get up and start my day only to regret it later when I started feeling the lack of sleep. It eventually passed and hasn't happened to me in quite a while. I don't have a explanation for it, I'm in a rural area with little or no noise and very little outside light. I've just chalked it up to 'one of those things'.


Damn interdimensional beings.

Sounds to me like you are trying to get up for 4:20.

I'm just sayin'

Ahhh to be able to regulate when you get up...my kids are up at the crack of dawn EVERY DAY!!! If I try to go back to sleep and just let them play they decide that this would be the best time to find Daddy's wallet and flush it...

Wait, there's something weird about getting up at 4:30?

Well, for me there would be...That's 20 minutes late. Gym opens at 4:30!

I take it you don't normally wake on your own, but use an alarm?

Sorry, Ank, for the car alarm going off every night.

*kicks 1983 Pulsar*

I usually wake up at 7:10 with an alarm, but I used to wake up 2 mins before the alarm always.

I was thinking of waking up earlier and waiting if something happens... Maybe I'll see if it happens again tomorrow, and if it does, investigate...

There's no light coming into my room or anything, and definately not at 4:30 in the morning.

My first thought is that your internal clock is messed up. I would take a inventory of your day and see just how much time you spend in direct sunlight? Sometimes people who work in a room with no/few/small windows have this problem. Try spending at leased one solid hour outside in the sun without sunglasses on. I know this sounds weird, but sunglasses give your brain a mixed message as to the time of day. Next, how much exercise do you get? Your body might be getting as much sleep as it needs based on your activities through out the day. Lastly, how's your diet? Are you eating enough to keep your metabolism up?
Hope this helps

I have the same thing going on too, except I'm waking up at 3:45. It sucks!

This happens to me before and I figured out it was when the neighbor left for work, slamming doors and generally being rude. Once I identified the noise though, it no longer woke me up.

Good luck.

Maybe there's something gnawing at you that needs your attention, and once you figure out what it is, you can rest again. That's my interpretation. *sees all, knows all* ;)

Re: 1985 Pulsar alarm going off ^^

I was parking that car near a neighbor's house for a while.

Every morning at 5 a.m. the alarm went off.

It seems every morning at 5 a.m. a truck drove down the block and hit a pothole near the car, thus setting off the alarm.

I moved the car.

I have no idea what goes on around my house at 430... by then I have already been at work for half an hour. Now that I think about in though I wake up once every night. I wonder if it is at the same time each night. I always figure it is just my roommates.

did u try this? maybe for a few day. or record - on ur laptop/ pc. You can use the scheduler to start a recording at 4 10am or so

Try:

Our offices have a LOT of sunlight, and I walk around in the sun, sit in the sun, etc. I also excercise a lot, almost every day, and I eat even more. Maybe not the healthiest stuff, but enough for my metabolism (which is quite fast).

Megg:

You're cheating.

Tgkprog:

The laptop idea is awesome, I'm gonna try it. I didn't want to wake up earlier and make it even worse.


It's not the waking up that's the problem, it's the not being able to go to sleep quickly again. Then between 5.15 or so and 7 there's not enough time for 2 proper sleep cycles, so I don't get enough sleep.

Last night I woke up 3:30 (different reason, someone breaking into a car) and again at 4:30.

I'm going to try the laptop thing... I'll let you know...

So, were you the party that called me at 4:15 a.m.?

*thinks about time differences*

*wonders why time differences are worrying suebe, and not the fact that I have her number...*

*wonders why you would worry about ladies wondering about what time it was for you when you called rather than worrying about you having their number*

If you have a lady's phone number, and she doesn't question it, then don't worry be happy.

My wife had the same problem for months,
right now she found some kind of pill that keeps her sleeping until morning after she fell asleep.
It is not a sleeping pill in the sense that it does not make her fall asleep, it just prevents her waking up too early.

I wake up sometimes when one of our neighbors' AC turns on. Something must be broken in it, it has this weird howling sound when starts and when stops. Fortunately I have no problem falling asleep again.