Waking up at 5am

undecided
Fri, 25 May 2007 19:35:36 +0000

My room already has heavy blue velvet curtains, and I make a habit of closing the curtains in the rest of the apartment as well. Very little light gets in, and I haven’t previously had a problem sleeping until 9am.

The habit thing got me, too, but I haven’t had to get up at 5am regularly for 3+ years now. If it’s a habit, it’s a newly formed one.

Corranged: in looking to see whether this was a problem other people experienced, I read that REM sleep often includes an increased heart rate. Perhaps because I tend to wake up at the end of a REM cycle, my heart rate is still elevated? I don’t know, though; it feels very uncomfortable, so that I feel like I have been running a race – and even moreso that I SHOULD be running, and laying in bed is just not an option.

Stress might simply be it. School ended recently, and though finals didn’t phase me one bit, perhaps the concern over supporting myself this summer and paying for school next year has overwhelmed me stealthily. It’s not something I consciously worry about while waking, but maybe it’s being processed while I sleep.