Always Wake Up At 3am? This Is The Frustrating Reason Why

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6728ec031d00001f0083d51d.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="" data-caption="" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Unsplash" /></div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>For those of us that are always waking up in the middle of the night, realising it’s once again 3am that you’ve inexplicably woken up is an all-too-familiar gut punch. </p><p>It can be really annoying, especially when it’s been a while and you think it’s not happening anymore... just to find yourself springing awake in the middle of the night, losing crucial <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/sleep/">sleep</a> time.</p><p>However, according to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/health/">health</a> experts, it could be down to stress and there is actually a way to prevent it happening time and time again.</p><h2><strong>Why you always wake up in the middle of the night</strong></h2><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-do-we-wake-around-3am-and-dwell-on-our-fears-and-shortcomings-169635" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Psychologist Greg Murray</a> said: “We actually wake up many times each night, and light sleep is more common in the second half of the night. When sleep is going well for us, we are simply unaware of these awakenings.</p><p>“But add a bit of <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/stress/">stress</a> and there is a good chance that waking will become a fully self-aware state.”</p><p>I don’t know about you but that sounds incredibly relatable to me.</p><p>He added: “Concerns about being awake when one “should” be asleep can cause the person to jolt themselves into <a href="https://w