An uncanny phenomenon that affects many people: you wake up at around three o'clock in the morning and cannot find your way back to sleep.
Read here why that is.
Do you fall asleep quickly, don't wake up at night and feel relaxed the next morning? Signs of a healthy sleep * that allows the body to regenerate. But not everyone can look forward to such nights. Going to the toilet
at night, difficulty sleeping
through
the night
or noisy neighbors:
the list of nocturnal disruptive factors is long.
Waking up to the so-called "wolf hour" is also widespread: those affected wake up between three and four o'clock in the morning and can no longer fall asleep.
According to the editorial network Germany (RND), the term “hour of the wolf” comes from ancient times and refers to late night hours when there was no longer a soul on the streets and only the wolves were still active.
In the RND interview, Alfred Wiater, former chairman of the German Society for Sleep Medicine,
explains why so many people wake up from sleep at around three o'clock in the morning.
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According to Wiater, many people find it easy to sleep at around three o'clock at night: "This phenomenon is not only known to chronically sleep-disturbed people, it affects each of us, even if not in the same way as it does to sleep-disturbed people," he explains to the RND according to. A hormone imbalance is to blame. “Around 3 o'clock in the morning our body temperature dropped and the sleep hormone melatonin is highly active. At the same time, our cortisol level is very low, just like the level of the hormone serotonin, which normally ensures that we feel good, "the editorial network Germany quotes the sleep doctor further:"
This constellation leads to the positive effects of serotonin on us and the anti-stress effect of cortisol is also missing
“As a result of this hormonal imbalance, the risk of waking up increases and a clouded mood is also likely due to hormonal factors, according to the sleep expert.
According to Alfred Wiater,
anyone who
has problems falling asleep again after waking up should
get up briefly
, turn on
the light and have a drink
.
According to him, only after these steps should one try to find one's way back to sleep.
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The hormones also influence the quality of sleep.
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Anyone brooding at night should get out of bed
Nocturnal brooding is keeping you from falling asleep again?
According to the Helios Kliniken, sleep doctor Andreas Eger gives the following tips for dealing with nocturnal brooding thoughts:
Don't look at the clock
: if you do that, start calculating how much sleep is left before the alarm goes off.
If you then put yourself under pressure, you will probably not find your way back to sleep well.
Just get up
: take a moment to relax.
Did you take a nap or did you fall asleep at 10 p.m.?
In that case it is not surprising if you feel fit at five o'clock.
Then the best thing to do is get up.
Stop brooding in bed
: If you cannot sleep at night because of all the brooding, then think your thoughts to the end outside of bed, according to Andreas Eger's tip.
A “thought chair” that is placed next to the bed should help.
On this, thoughts that come in bed should be thought through to the end.
Whenever the thought carousel starts, the chair should be used.
According to sleep specialist Eger, the bed should really only be used for sleeping, especially by people with sleep problems.
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