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Ruth Jones

Waking up at 3am? Here's 5 reasons you can't sleep through and 5 solutions

Young woman is wide awake at night and wants to fall back to sleep fast.

Not sleeping through the night can not only be frustrating, but it can lead to sleep deprivation and increased levels of stress and anxiety. But you don't need to stare at the ceiling any longer. There are some simple lifestyle changes that boost the chances of sleeping through the night so you feel well rested in the morning.

But first, we need to address that waking up is normal. 'Sleeping through the night' is normally unachievable, because in reality all of us wake up at different times during the night, but in healthy sleep these wake periods are so brief we don't register them. Therefore we think we've slept through.

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