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woke up in the middle of the night, why?

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nonsensepastel
nonsensepastel

It's been a long while. A year or so that I didn't wake up in the middle night like this.

?It started with me trying to fall asleep at 10:54 and feeling like I am not breathing. But I managed to fall asleep. Then here it comes. At 3:42 am switching positions over and over, sighing in my half asleep state, then finally waking up. I tried again to close my eyes. Thinking is seriously nothing other than anxiety, try beat that down. Nope. I began breathing a little bit faster, the empty chest feeling kept going. I began feeling the urge to cry. Went to the bathroom quietly trying not to wake anyone up. Face, lips, eyes, all ok. Except the terrified glance I had. I'm slightly amused by it because I don't uderstand why am so scared of in the first place. But that amusement gets cut by the urge again. Why the shallow breath? Why that sudden awakening? Why the ''no breath'' feeling? Sometimes I wish my head would ''kindly'' shut the hell up ( pardon my french). But here I am. 4:07 am. Not even yawning anymore. Not even crying, but being ....sad? A little bit...overwhelmed? Still slightly teary? I can't say what's going on.

?I tried resuming in my head if this was anxiety. Mom and I switched matresses before bed because mine had a hole. I felt guilty-ish. Also because mom began muttering under her breath that she wants to die. I , ofcourse, said quietly '' don't sacrifice yourself for me if you have to cry to die afterwards''. Well now I was checking facebook- she posten an indirect post about her pain-great. Nope.

?Before that Mom and I realized my neck is either strained or pinched. My cervical is achey and stinghy out of sleeping bad, sitting with a bad posture and frequently , ehe, sitting.... take that giggle with sarcasm.

?I can only think of anxiety, I can only think of a stupid subconscious. But eh.... Worth asking others more experienced than me about it. I don't want to end up actually being asthmatic and ignoring it. ( Thaaaat would be pretty terrible if it was the case, I soley believe it shouldn't be tho... but still)

?So can anyone tell me... why did I wake up like this, what the loving god happened And how do I go back to sleep now?

?P.S. I've been fighting going to sleep late. I used to sleep the whole night perfectly even if going to sleep at 1 am. Heh. I guess It's my fault here?

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  • sheldon63577
    sheldon63577 nonsensepastel

    Posted

    Well you are not alone in the going to sleep late category. :-). But anyway, if I had to hazard a guess I would say the reason why you woke up in the middle of the night is that you have anxiety about something atleast subconsciously which you probably already know. Now why you woke up in that state is probably because you your body was sleeping just fine then suddenly the anxiety monster decided to pop in and your body got very confused sense it was just sleeping so it did not know what to do so it reacted the only way it knows how to when it doesn't know what to do, and that is with fear. And that gave you an adrenaline rush which kept you up.

    Now to get back to bed, well... Sleeping meds... Probably not the best choice to be honest but I don't know how else to make you sleep from adrenaline, or wait it out and your body will want to sleep.

    Now I have no clue if that is what you wanted to hear. I basically just told you why which was the question but I still feel I am missing something. If so please ask it again. And have a good day/night.

  • cia42277
    cia42277 nonsensepastel

    Posted

    When this happens to me...every night, I get up and eat something. Itt usually helps me get back to sleep. Nothing too heavy . Try it, t may work for you, too

    I am up right  now, and just had a bowl of soup. I will go bck to bed after it settles for a few minutes.

  • borderriever
    borderriever nonsensepastel

    Posted

    Hello

    I wake up every night at 03.00 it means I need to go to the toilet as I am getting older and I panda to an older body.

    All I can suggest is that you wake up and the actual waking is making you anxious and you cannot get back to sleep. If you awake do not look at the alarm clock or ask yourself why you are awake, just turn over and then just go to sleep

    Mind I feel new mattrasses may help you sleep

    Always around

    BOB

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