About once a month I wake between 1:00 and 2:00AM and have no luck falling back to sleep. I accept that I'm going to be awake for about two hours per past experience. Then I fall back to sleep around 4.
It's like my body's leap year.
I end up sleeping a little later and have a slightly draggy day. Then my normal sleep schedule resumes. It is not altogether unpleasant.
@ewdocparris
I read once that senior Inuits often wake on long winter nights and simple lay and think in an almost meditative state - it does them no harm.My wife wakes in the night an frets, that's keeps her awake longer. I believe your acceptance makes a difference.
@ewdocparris@Neidfyre In my early 50s, I went through a period where I would awaken somewhere between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m., every night for about six months, and stay away for an hour or two. After being frantic about it for a couple weeks, I just accepted it. I would get up, read some news, log on an chat with online acquaintances, plan things for the next day, or simply build things in my head--woodworking, but also writing.
It wasn't unpleasant, and it went away eventually.
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