Could this be the reason some people wake up at 3am?
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There's this ONE THING that puts a smile on my face, a spring in my step and makes me sleep like a baby... I'd tell you what it is, but RULES.
Wow, I'll have to try that. I am breaking 2.5mg in half, which keeps me sleeping right through 3 am to 6, most of the time. 5mg would put me out fast, but then I was always up at 2 or 3 when it wore off.
I often wake up at 3:00AM. At no time in the last 20 years have I "needed" food.
Unless you're one on the 1% that makes you jittery and not sleep well.
I think my wife likes to keep it at 50% but I keep trying to push it down. The windows aren't the greatest and so they will get condensate on them. Which then runs down the window and attacks the wood. Plus I hate to think about where the moisture is going, no place good.
Not a problem in the summer (trying to bring down humidity with the a/c) but in winter, I worry about it freezing up some place and doing damage.
Ack! I meant mg (milligrams), NOT Mg (megagrams). Nor did I mean Magnesium.
I tried 5 or 10 mg years and years ago. I had freaky very vivid dreams plus heart palpitations.
I'm fine with a 1 mg tablet broken in half (0.5 mg).
Legal in your state, but not an option for a great many of us. Many of us are drug tested, and we would fail, costing us our careers.That is legalized in my state so I don't have to worry about going to jail. Over the summer I pulled a muscle in my back really bad. I lived on the floor for a week. I couldn't bend so sitting on the couch was excruciating and, while I could lay in bed, I couldn't get in or out of bed easily. It took me 30 minutes to get into bed and laid down then 45 minutes to get out a few hours later. I just could not move. Slept on the floor and basically crawled around the house the entire time.
I didn't want to take all of the muscle relaxants and prednisone (thankfully I found out that I don't have any bad discs or anything crushed) and was given some gummies to try. It actually helped relax the muscle so I didn't keep hurting myself. I also discovered that the sleep ones really help me get a good sleep.
I can fall asleep and "sleep" for 8 hours but I normally wake up more tired than when I went to bed. Everyone said sleep apnea. If this helps me sleep and I wake up feeling great, it's not sleep apnea. It's just poor quality sleep.
That alone would keep me up at 3 AM. I’m glad it works for you, but it’s foolish for many of us.
Look, I sleep in different time zones almost every night.
I generally get a very good night sleep.
A magnesium supplement helps with a lot of things, including digestion, but also insomnia. Make sure that you’re getting enough.
Make sure your nutrition good, and you’re properly hydrated.
Get some exercise and sunlight every day.
A little bit, 3 mg, of melatonin can help adjust your circadian rhythm. If, say, you’re trying to get to sleep in Switzerland, having woken up that morning on the East Coast. It’s a big help, along with sunlight and exercise.
Finally, and this is really important, is what I’m gonna call “digital hygiene.“
The blue light of a computer screen, iPad, or phone, tells your brain that it’s daytime. Turn that crap off at least one hour before you go to sleep. Read a book, read a magazine, unwind, and let your brain unwind and for heave’s sake - avoid the blue light that signals it’s time to be awake.
People are really, really bad about this last point.
I generally get a very good night sleep.
A magnesium supplement helps with a lot of things, including digestion, but also insomnia. Make sure that you’re getting enough.
Make sure your nutrition good, and you’re properly hydrated.
Get some exercise and sunlight every day.
A little bit, 3 mg, of melatonin can help adjust your circadian rhythm. If, say, you’re trying to get to sleep in Switzerland, having woken up that morning on the East Coast. It’s a big help, along with sunlight and exercise.
Finally, and this is really important, is what I’m gonna call “digital hygiene.“
The blue light of a computer screen, iPad, or phone, tells your brain that it’s daytime. Turn that crap off at least one hour before you go to sleep. Read a book, read a magazine, unwind, and let your brain unwind and for heave’s sake - avoid the blue light that signals it’s time to be awake.
People are really, really bad about this last point.
This describes me 100%. I have an app on my PC that dims the blue spectrum light at dusk, but I bet it is only modestly effective. Fortunately, I sleep pretty well in spite of too much screen time.
I wake up @3a to go to the bathroom
I find my insomnia cure. I do that digital unwind, and the book I read is
https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Revolution-Richard-Pipes/dp/0679736603/ref=sr_1_2?sr=8-2
I have had it about a year and I've made it barely 150 pages in.
I'd also recommend War and Peace and Remembrances of Things Past for this purpose.
Gravity's Rainbow would also be a good pick for this.
Some may need food at 3 am. I need to get rid of FLUID at 3 am 
And sometimes, at 3 am, one of my cats wants food if I forget to put out some wet food at bedtime.
And sometimes, at 3 am, one of my cats wants food if I forget to put out some wet food at bedtime.
Don't forget Waiting for Godot, preferably in the original French.
Usually waking up then for me is either a bathroom trip or something shooting off at Vandenberg SFB.