Waking up at the same time...every night.

[hyperangel13]

I've been super stressed out lately and I'm not sleeping well. Every night I'll wake up one to two times. Almost always it's at exactly or about 2:22 AM. I do the reality checks and it's not a false awakening, but I'm wondering why such a precise time. Earlier in the year, when I was stressed out for midterms, I woke up during the night at exactly XX:00. Always right on the dot. Anyone know what's happening? Or is it really a lucid and I'm just an idiot?

[Soldier]

Looks like a perfect chance to try FILD.

[Luminous]

This is actually not uncommon. I think the precise timing has to do with our biological clock. I had a period during high school where I would wake up at 3:14AM every night. It's probably the stress that's affecting your sleep, as you mentioned.

[hyperangel13]

I'm sure after all this stress goes by, I won't have to deal with this waking up thing. And I have tried FILD, but I find that when I wake up I have to move to check my watch, then turn over to get comfortable. I read somewhere (somehow) that moving is bad. :/

[RunflaCruiser]

I always wake up at the same times everynight. Usually 3 am on the dot. Its usually always in increments of 1 hour and a half like the sleep cycle.

[Oneironaut Zero]

This is actually not uncommon. I think the precise timing has to do with our biological clock. I had a period during high school where I would wake up at 3:14AM every night. It's probably the stress that's affecting your sleep, as you mentioned. I agree with this. Actually, I believe that it may be even more precise than many of us know. There are times when I will have a certain sleep pattern that I've gotten used to, and then something will come along to where I have to wake up much earlier than normal. I will set my alarm, and if it's something important, I will usually go to be stressing about "Man I really hope I don't over sleep!" And, even though it's completely anomalous to the amount of time I'd been sleeping for like weeks at a time, I will wake up about 5 minutes before my alarm goes off, as if I was so deeply anticipating what time I had to wake up, that my body kept track and even woke me up before my alarm had to.

[chloecacophony]

For a while I'd wake up at 3:33AM every night. It was kind of creepy.