Experts confirm the one thing you should always do if you wake up in the middle of the night
Many of us handle a 3 a.m. wake-up the same way. We lie still, close our eyes, and wait. When that fails, we reach for the phone. Sleep specialists say the first instinct is the bigger mistake.
When waking up in the middle of the night, the common instinct is to lie still and wait for sleep to return. If that fails, people often resort to using their phones. However, sleep specialists identify the initial reaction of lying still as the more significant error.
- Many people wake up around 3 a.m. and lie still, waiting to fall back asleep.
- When lying still doesn’t work, the next common action is reaching for a phone.
- Sleep specialists consider the first instinct—lying still—to be the bigger mistake.
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