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[quote=Anonymous]Have you heard of the phenomenon of segmented sleep, or two sleeps a night with a break in between?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783

Basically, research and primary source documents suggest that humans naturally would sleep in 2 four-hour stretches, with a break in between.

So if you go to bed at 10 and wake at 2, that's your body doing what it's designed to do.

Where we mess up is when we start FREAKING out that we're awake at 2...which causes all kinds of stress and anxiety that keep us awake.

What would be ideal to do is light a candle, have a cup of tea, read a book by candlelight, or have sex when you wake up at 2.  Enjoy a break from slumber for an hour or so.  Don't turn on the lights or electronics or do anything too stimulating.  And just tell yourself that you're all right, that it's time to sleep again soon.

The adjustment that you may have to make is to go to bed an hour earlier, so that you can have your first 4 hour stretch and then time for a break in between.

Once I started accepting that some nights my brain needs a break from sleep, I slept SO much better.  I actually sleep all the way through more often...it's almost like it removed that low-level anxiety I had that I was doing it wrong.

I'd caution really strongly against long-term benzo use.[/quote]

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