I kept waking up at odd times in the night but it stopped once I kicked this common phone habit

A person lies in bed in a dark room, their face lit by an illuminated phone screen.

We all know how integral sleep is for our overall mental and physical wellbeing. For someone who loves waking up feeling well-rested after a good night’s sleep, there was a brief period of time when I struggled achieving just that.

I always tend to take my 8-hour sleep very seriously since going to bed is something I look forward to at the end of a long day. But instead of sleeping through the night, recently I started experiencing bad dreams that led to me being wide awake at 3am, then at 4am and later at 6am. This happened every night for a couple of weeks at different intervals, which left me utterly exhausted. These sudden nighttime wakings really drained me and I knew I needed to find a solution.