What do you do if you wake up at 3am and can't get back to sleep?

[AviatorTom]

This morning, I woke up from a sound sleep at 3am, and could not get back to sleep. So, I stayed in bed, checked email and played games on my tablet and posted a few things on GaG, until I decided to just get up and have breakfast around 5am.

So, tell us...

What would you do if you wake up at 3am and can't get back to sleep.

[OlderAndWiser]

After ten minutes wasted trying to reclaim sleep, I get out of bed. Sometimes I fix a cup of coffee; the caffeine does not keep me awake. I might check this site but, more often, I play something simple like MS Solitaire or Websudoku. Ten to fifteen minutes of that activity usually has me yawning.

[RavVid]

Quite often happens for me. So I just get up and do stuff till I feel tired. I recently got AR glasses so now I watch youtube in bed instead. "Boring History" is a good channel to get back to sleep.

It is a fairly critical choice. I need interesting enough to engage with but uninteresting enough to not excite me.

Fell to sleep on how Captain Shrapnel developed his shrapnel shell last night but it was almost too exciting because those shells were instrumental in defeating Napoleon at Waterloo..

[RavVid]

Forgot to mention that now I can watch youtube in bed I don't have a sense of lost time trying to go back to sleep. I am just taking an entertainment break is all so I go back to sleep more easily as I am not stressed.

Thanks for a MHO

[Little_Bumblebee]

Sometimes jerking off helps, other than that I would either read in a book or get up and do something productive, that sometimes help me out

[Simslover92]

Surf the web or be on GAG until I fall back asleep.

[Grgroup]

I try to remain composed, take deep breaths, or read a book until I feel sleepy again if I wake up at three in the morning and am unable to fall asleep. After 20 minutes, if I'm still restless, I get up and do something calming, like journaling or light stretching, before attempting to fall back asleep.

[Keyboardkat]

I notice many responders here say they get up and do something involving their phone or their computer. But aren't we told that the blue screen keeps one awake? I'd rather read a book until I get sleepy again. I suggest something kind of boring, like calculus, or something about ancient Etruscan pottery, LOL

[Phoenix98]

If I'm off that day then I'll just stay up for a few hours until I get tired again and then go back to sleep.

If it's a work day though I'll just put on some coffee and stay up. Because by the time I fall back asleep it'll be time to get up or I'll oversleep and then be late.

[FreyaRed]

I know I will fall asleep at 6:00. I start some chill sound in streamer and try to relax.
Being in half awake half in nirvana state does regenerates sometimes better than deep sleep.

[Purpleronnie]

In the rare occasions I wake up in the middle of the of the night like that I will usually get on the treadmill for 15 / 20 mins and then go back to bed , the exercise always helps

[exitseven]

That is basically my life. I wear a CPAP machine and wake up around 3AM to pee and never get back to sleep. I just lie awake and contemplate my place in the universe.

[Bricealan]

@AviatorTom Sometimes get up and take a Benadryl and puts me to sleep or get up and take a 3:00 drive

[DonaldDarko]

I wake up around 1 am every morning. I work around the house till I fall asleep again around 3 am.

[SaoirseS]

What do you mean if? This is my life. That’s from having a toddler, a dog and two cats.

[queenofcardio]

I'll try again in a couple of hours. If not , I'll just get up and start the day

[NathanDavis]

I'll answer a G@G question... and then go back to sleep

[msc545]

I usually read, unfortunately, in bed which I shouldn't do. Or I go up and mess around with a computer. Or I hang out with my cats. Or if I'm just marginally tired, I sometimes spend some time looking at the garbage on my phone.

[BobbieBoy666]

After I tinkle with going pee pee. I watch t. v. in 'till I fall asleep again.

[sage2021]

I just stay up and watch videos on YouTube and have my coffee ☕ early

[Massageman]

I go back to sleep. I don't enter the "can't fall back asleep" range until about 6:30- 6:45 or so.

[Drumlin2001]

Lay there and try to drift off. Or go to bathroom and masturbate.

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't usually go to bed before 4 or 5 a. m.!!

[Wiredone]

I just toss and turn until I fall back asleep hours later. It happens every night. I usually only get 3 to 4 hours of broken sleep

[AngryCarl2]

I do have some experience of this. I get up and potter around until it's time to get up, then I go back to bed.

[Staximus]

Take a shot of whiskey, smoke some weed, make a snack, smoke a cigarette, watch some YouTube videos, read a book.

[linka_pat307]

@AviatorTom some people, its good to pray at that time if you found yourself awake

[douride2]

Same thing as most mornings lay there & try to get back to sleep.

[WonderingManII]

I grab my mp3 player and jam to some really hard rock.

[Kelly6]

@AviatorTom check if hubby has a hard for me to eat

[WhatIsYourZodiac]

Eat some proteins?

[Iron_Man]

Get on gag and talk to uncle Tom Hoping that he’s awake

[beefcakebradybatson]

Read and listen to my radio with the sound really low to not awaken my roommate.

[Xawyx-2]

I can always get back to sleep.

[AviatorTom]

@Xawyx-2 You are very fortunate.

[Xawyx-2]

Being able to sleep is not some big fortune :P

[Shiprex]

Go get a drink and read something

[Dargil]

I go to YouTube and watch science clips.

[ABC1x1x]

Get washed and go to work.

[Chazmatazz269]

Go to the gym

[DexWest]

I go to work

[c704710]

This.

[Anonymous]

I watch porn