How many times have you found yourself awake at 3 am, unable fall back to sleep Ever found yourself suddenly awake and unable to fall back to sleep? Before you know it, your thoughts have decided they’ve had enough shuteye and it’s time to begin the day. I recently realized that so many people wake up at 3 a.m. Earlier, I would think of the monsters under my bed…now I think about the monsters we all have within us that shake us awake at 3 a.m.,” one sleepless Indian woman shared. One 2023 study by Local Circles, a community-based social media platform, found that 55% of Indians get less than six hours of uninterrupted sleep every night. Of 13,438 people they surveyed, 43% said they slept 6-8 hours, 34% said they slept 4-6 hours, 21% got four hours of sleep. What’s that noise? Sometimes our dog wakes up from deep sleep at around 3 a.m. to suddenly stare in one place and bark. And this usually happens when the husband is not in town.” Our brains love to conjure up puzzles to interpret at 3 a.m. “I remember this dream where we go into a house for a wedding after taking off chappals, each room has something celebratory going on, so one has to make the right gestures and pass on to the next, and one emerges from the house but there’s no way to retrieve the footwear The internet is full of helpful advice that doesn’t work, and studies that blame your wakefulness on your staple after dawn activities (screen time, alcohol). Every insomniac, on their part, has a favorite sleep app and a pet trick. Mine is to relax the muscles of my face, one at a time; and to read the longest stories on The New York Times’ domestic news section.
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Friday, October 10, 2025