I’m just like you. I wake up every night. I’ll stay up a few hours then try to go back to sleep. I needed to hear this. Thank you Margaret ❤

🇨🇦 I too am terrified of what lays ahead for the next four years. But I decided that this year I will watch less of the negative news and when there is a good news, I will share it with my friends and label it as a good news so that we are all reminded that wonderful things are still happening. I will even write them down and date it so that at the end of the year, I have a list of positive events that have happened. I think that may be a very interesting quest and maybe a very challenging one too.😊 🎄 Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Margaret! It can be weird during the holidays when you are alone but the rest of the year is different? I've been alone and dont mind the holidays but its okay ! I have a Christmas village I painted from 1991-2016 and while it gets tougher to haul it out, set up and crawl around at 68, it Truly brings me so much joy! 😂❤

Great video for us ageing baby boomers

I do this too. My medical provider doesn't like it at all, so I don't discuss it anymore. I always fall back to sleep after a couple of hours and sleep very well.

Thank you dear lady, I was lead to you at the time, I needed your words. Merry Christmas and have a blessed New Year 🎄❤️

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Fascinating video!

Hi Margaret, I wake up about 3 am and go to the kitchen for a bowl of cereal. Then I go back to bed and fall asleep quickly. The carbs in the cereal do the trick for me. I like the pattern. Love the quiet time.

My mom had 10 children. In her 50's she went to college and got 2 degrees. She did all of her school work in the middle of the night. She also wrote a book, probably when my dad and the kids still at home were sleeping. Just for your information, she is in her 90's now and doing very well so it didn't seem to affect her health at all. I cant wait to tell her about this video.

Grandma,Meme,Mema,Nee and NeeNee…

Yes, it’s an epidemic. I’m always alone unless the family or people I know need something from me.

I do the same, about 2:30 and listen to podcasts and sometimes fall asleep after about 1.5 hours.

Sounds about right, lol. I usually go to sleep around 8:30-9, sleep til about 2-3. Awake for an hour or so, then go back to sleep.

I have done this for fifty years, I sleep for four or five hours, I get up and do a variety of things that need to be done. I empty the dishwasher, write in my journal, clean the refrigerator, clean the oven, do laundry what ever needs to be done. Then after a couple of hours I go back to bed. So glad to hear others are doing the same thing.

So funny Margaret. My brother and I discuss this sleep or lack of often. We both have this same problem. I am 76 and he is 81. So glad to see we are not the only ones. 😂 Merry Xmas and Happy 2025.

I like this idea. I've begun doing something like it. The 11/5/24 election was past disappointing, it's frightening. I was in my fourth round of adrenal fatigue from obsessing on all that, beyond voting, donating and writing anonymously to warn people about narcissists (I was long-married to one). I was already in a hard place with grieving my beloved second husband's death and struggling with long Covid. So, I've taken myself off all news, except for what's positive or neutral. I'm walking, meditating, doing things with friends, keeping up my dance lessons, doing yoga and deep breathing. I talk to all my neighbors regardless of what their yard signs say, and get a little more peace with these unofficial efforts for diplomacy and healing. Even with all this, at about 3 AM or so, it's bug-eyed time. So I stopped fighting it. I'm glad I don't have to punch a clock anymore (so far). And I actually get some good contemplative work done before I nod off again.

Thank you so much for this info and these suggestions. For me it’s 3 a.m. and I’m going to give your ideas a try. It’s got to be better than ruminating over waking up and not being able to sleep.

I am alone too but I am fine at it.

By giving to a cause ...an unknown person brings me me joy! Go out to dinner with one friend at a time!

Such a nice video. I live alone as a 70 yr old divorced woman. No kids. My Christmas celebration will be stress-free. Going to the theater to see the new Bob Dylan movie, then out for a walk, and home for take-out Chinese food and pie. I have great memories of getting together with my family in the past, but they're all gone now. So to me Dec. 25th is just another day I get to be alive and grateful for what's going right in my life.

I sometimes wake up at 3-3:30 AM, wanting my coffee. But, once up, I can't go back to sleep, of course. By 4:30 AM, I hear my little grandson upstairs, and, that's the end of my sleep. 😕

This video is packed with wonderful ideas. I ,too, wake up naturally between 0200-0300. I am guilty of checking my phone 😂 but I have learned to keep low lighting. I do simple chores, tasks, laundry,empty dishwashers, bathroom cleaning, light reading , meditation, express gratitude to my maker, reflection, praying for others, and seeking guidance on how I can help others in need. I return for "second" sleep around 0330. Yes, it is less stressful and accomplished chores, so enjoy the quiet hours while the world is asleep in my time zone. So peaceful and surreal. P. S. I learned from you to wall paper journals with cute and colorful wallpaper. Makes me happy when I open to journal, take notes in classes I attend, and give away to others who need" a pick me up." Thank you, Margaret. You are a motivator. I am thankful for your channel! ❤❤❤❤❤

Fascinating !!! I have been wondering about my sleep lately. I am up in this sleep pattern lately. My second sleep is maybe 3 or 4 am until 7 or 8 first is around 9 til 12. Oh my gosh what an eye opener . Last night I was up usual 2 am got up opening my sliding doors to feel the fresh air on my face . Being aware of this takes so much pressure off . I think for many of us now retired our bodies were so programmed from years of work using alarm clocks etc and we didn’t know our own body rhythm . Such an eye opener ❤️

If your child was raised in a broken home, you as parents will have to work extra hard to compensate for this massive failure.

You are fabulous!

Hi Margaret. My usual sleep pattern is going to bed between 9:30-10.00. I sleep very deeply and wake up around 2 am - 3am fully awake. I get up and have a cup of tea and then go back to sleep around 4am and sleep until 6 - 7am. It bothered me for years but now I just go with the flow. Sometimes I will have a nanny nap for 20 minutes which seems to be all I need.

U r so perky!

I still rise at 5am the way I always have, but relieved I no longer have to venture out to milk animals. These days I enjoy a nap after lunch to recharge my batteries. As a carer spanning many years, I always tended my patients around 2am, and invariably wake around that time but now I can enjoy a quiet moment reading or doing soduku. For me, night hours are best for study without interruption, or just enjoying peace.

I also wake up at 2 am. Sometimes I'm so awake that I can't fall asleep again until I have to get up which is normally at 5.30. So I often go to work with only having slept 3 hours. To me this is terrible, because I work fulltime and it is a really stressfull job. But sometimes at night 2 am it works that I just think about something or listen to a podcast or read and after maybe 1 or 2 hours I fall asleep again. So then my second sleep is only 1 1/2 hours, but it is what it is and I gave up on worrying for this because I'm not able to change it. And I tried everything, believe me. So I also do this medieval method without knowing it😅 But it is really interesting!

I heard start reading the Bible...you'll get very sleepy!

I have been doing this already. Especially if I didn't get my afternoon nap. I normally wake up without an alarm at 2 AM or so, get a little exercise walking around, relax a bit, and I am ready to go back to sleep, no problem. In winter months I get tired soon as it gets dark so end up going to bed earlier.

Thanks i needed that

This will be the 8th xmas and New Year I spend alone. Not even a phone call😢

Restaurants in the states often have a “senior menu” section that is always a smaller portion meal, which is also a little less expensive. That helps!

Sometimes I wake at 3 or. 4 a.m. Rarely. I just turn over and go back to sleep. I am a night person by nature, and do my best work then. Mornings, ugh!

When i wake up about 3.30am,I listen to a talking book. Listening stops you thinking about your worries and I usually fall asleep in an hour or so.

I believe people in Spain sleep this way. Not sure, does anyone know?

2023 was my year to "Embrace" my life as it is and realize my career was nearing its end and then I suddenly lost my job. So 2024 has been my year to "Explore" and figure out who I was and what I liked to do since all I had done was focus on work for so long. I love the idea of 2025 being the year to thrive and really stretch my wings! I look forward to your future videos.

I go to sleep at 00.00 and wake up before 04 in the morning. I get up, walk the dog, have some breakfast, read a book and then at 08 I go to sleep another 4 hours. Works great for me.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You and Yours 2024!

It's hard with relatives all over the place. A simple one I have is just walking by a store and I smell the beautiful Christmas trees. I lived in Mexico, and I was surprised in my uncle's store he had so many fresh trees also, I didn't think that was a Mexican custom. Also Mexicans like to stay up till midnight...I like my sleep. The next day I was laughing because they were saying " where was Lizzy"...umm...in bed

Interesting. I also have segmented sleep. I like to put a video on but just listen without the screen. Really helps me fall back to sleep.

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I think all our make up is completely different. I usually stay up as late as i can say 11.30 to 12 ish, when i feel tired. I usually sleep at least 6 or 7 hrs right through , sometimes we think we are tired when we are not . Make sure i have my last cuppa abt 6 ish . 💗🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Good Sunday 🌅☕ morning. Yes, that has happened to me, I just 🙏 pray and I fall back to 😴 sleep or meditate. You look 😍 pretty in pink🎉🎉🎉

I've listened to ASMR for years. Has always helped me get into sleep and back into it when i wake up in the middle of the night. Just have to make sure it's a gentle sound.

I wake up around 3AM/3:30AM but I don't get up unless need to use the bathroom. I try to get back to sleep and sometimes I do. If I can't get back to sleep I start reading in bed and then try again to sleep. Once in a while I just can't get back to sleep but I won't get out of bed until 6AM. That's my rule: not getting up before 6AM. If I was to start getting up earlier than 6AM, then I feel it will become a habit. I feel that ideally you wake up when the sun rises (dawn) but with daylight savings time, it often just does not work. I dislike daylight savings time. It's always such an adjustment. Since I am retired, I don't worry about getting enough sleep. Used to stress me out when I was working because I worried that I wouldn't function well at my job. These sleep patterns didn't start until I got older. I used to sleep all night long but those days are long gone.

Margaret, thank you for sharing this awesome video. 😊