Do You Waken In The Middle Of The Night

@MoonGypsy (4606)
United States
February 8, 2013 8:39am CST
i don't know why, but i woke up early in the wee hours of the morning and couldn't get back to sleep. so, i decided to get up and do some work online and mylot. i love it in the wee hours of the morning. it is okay, because i know i don't have to get up early in the morning and the kids are out of school tomorrow. maybe it's because i know i have a free day a head that i am fully of energy and wide awake. have any of you ever gotten up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep. don't you find that you are more creative at this time?
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
8 Feb 13
I have usually woken up in the wee hours of the morning, but this is mostly due to me having to go to the bathroom =) After peeing, i would then go back to sleep with no problem at all and just wake up when its time of my regular time to get up. My mom though complains about this a lot that she wakes up wee hours in the morning but then she won't be able to go back to sleep. one time i was awaken too and i saw her already doing the laundry! she told me she could no longer sleep!! i told her to just relax and lie in bed and there is no need to get up, at least she is comfortable in her bed. she said though she couldn't sleep still.
@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
8 Feb 13
one thing i can't stand is being woken up to go to the bathroom. it's when i am the most tired that this happens to me.
• Philippines
9 Feb 13
This is so true, the most annoying reason to wake up in the middle of the night is having to go to the bathroom. I can barely open my eyes and I have to make sure that I'm going the right way, lol. Going back to sleep is no problem for me because I feel so much relieved by then.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
8 Feb 13
I Always was more creative late at night plus in the middle of the night. I love the darkness, the silence. At a certain point i quite working late and in the middle of the night. After all I have children to take care of and it's impossible for me to catch sleep at day time. So now I go to bed way earlier but since 1-2 weeks I wake up at the middle of the night again. I can't sleep for longer as 1-2 hours :-( I think it's because I am too tired but also my mind is too busy. So can't say I am creative or productive now :-(
@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
8 Feb 13
yes, i know. there is a difference from being wired to just being energized. if you are wired then you are really just tired, not creative. wired is the point your body is telling you that you have to force yourself to sleep.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
10 Feb 13
Well, actually some of my best posting in here, I feel comes later at night. I always seem to be more clear headed usually. And there are times when I cannot sleep or end up waking up, and since I have my tablet will come online for a bit, and post a little here. It usually will help me relax some until I can get tired enough to go back to sleep.
@jugsjugs (12967)
9 Feb 13
I am forever waking up at night no matter what.It is a lot worse when you can not get to sleep when you go to bed, as all you do is lay there knowing that you are tired and need sleep. Some days I feel wide awake, no matter how much sleep I have had, yet other days I have no energy at all. I also love it of a weekend, knowing that the children have no school and that they will in hope do the things that they want to do and leave me to do the things that I like to do.
• United States
8 Feb 13
I wake-up in the middle of the night all of the time. Sometime I get a snack than, fall back to sleep. I am a night person, anyway. I have been trying to get out of it for years but, nothing works. Lately though, I have been doing a lot better.
@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
8 Feb 13
well, you are probably just a night person. that is understandable. in that case, you are doing what your body wants to do. i guess it's different when it's like that. i use to be a night person, but i home school my children and i am on medication that i take at night to help me fall asleep. it's just tonight, i didn't stay asleep.
@Angelpink (4034)
• Philippines
9 Feb 13
It happened to me also when i was awaken in midnight ,i can't go back to sleep . No matter what i did still i can't so i stood up , open PC then do Mylotting . Instead of waiting when to sleep again , i became more productive ..type and type !
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
9 Feb 13
Because of experience like you of getting up in the middle of the night and working on the computer, I find that to go to bed too early I won't sleep, I am a night owl and I tend to stay up till 2 sometimes even 3 in the morning, mainly because it's so quiet and I can get so much more done than during the day. So why waste time laying in bed not being able to sleep when you can be constructive online!
@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
9 Feb 13
I wake up all the time in the middle of the night because I have to either go to the bathroom or can't sleep. Last night I had trouble sleeping I just tossed and turned all night I got maybe 1 to 2 hours of sleep n that's it. I won't be able to nap today because I'm having company over and then later 2nite I will be going to my boyfriends house for the evening. And tomorrow more company coming over then bowling so yeah busy weekend no time for relaxation. I hope you enjoy your weekend and you get caught up on your sleep.
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
9 Feb 13
Pretty much my entire life I have woken up between 2 and 3 in the morning to go to the bathroom, most nights I am able to get back to sleep. Every once in a while I have a night where after tossing and turning for over an hour I have decided that it is not going to happen so I grabbed my lap top and started doing on line stuff until I couldn't keep my eyes opened any more.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
8 Feb 13
I get up two or three times a night. Our dog gets me up to take her out at least once and if, like last night she has an upset tummy she gets me up 3 or more times. But I don't mind, I rather let her out than clean up the mess in the early morning. I do get up and stay up if it's after 2AM. That quiet time is priceless.
• Philippines
9 Feb 13
Aside from having to go to the bathroom at the wee hours of the morning I sometimes wake up because of strange noises that I hear. I'm not sure if it's a dream or I'm unconsciously hearing my surroundings. It could be just anything that I hear unusual like a squeaky bicycle passing by (old people who wakes up really early), something fell off somewhere either inside or outside the house, or just anything other than the dogs, frogs, crickets that I usually hear.
• Philippines
9 Feb 13
Yes! This past few days, I usually woke up in the middle of the night being disturbed itchiness on some parts of my body. May be there's a mosquito always bites me during only that time. :)
@neelia27 (896)
• Philippines
9 Feb 13
It happens to me a long time ago., I remember that everytime it happens to me I just grab my favorite book.. and just read until i can.. but now I still wake up in the middle of the night to attend to my babies needs., and after that after a few minutes I will go back to sleep.. I can easily fall back to sleep since I am so busy and tired during the day..
• Malaysia
9 Feb 13
ya I usually wake up in the night but that is for pee. I can't hold it to long or else i got pee in the bed, haha after that I just go back to sleep as usual.