Wakeful Thoughts

For the past three weeks, more frequently than just a staggered occurrence, I would wake up, look at the time and it was only either 3:00, 3:17, or 3:24 in the morning! The time range was always between 3:00 - 3:30 a.m., sometimes surprising me that I would wake up on the same hour to the minute on different days.

If I was fortunate, after simultaneous reactions of disbelief and relief in discovering what time it was, I would go back to sleep and wake up a few hours later to get ready for work. But there were times when I *thought* I got back to sleep but I think I was half-awake all along ... my eyes might have been closed but my mind was already buzzing. I would undoubtedly feel the effects later on.

Whenever I experience such erratic sleep pattern, I would feel a little discombobulated during the day, a little robotic, flat and just plain tired.

Maybe I should watch less crime dramas on TV and minimize naps in excess of an hour whenever I get home from work. That way, I would sleep through and not be wakeful and wired past midnight.

But it has been intriguing me ... why have I been compelled to wake up between 3:00 - 3:30 a.m.? It could not have been an internal alarm clock. I suppose that time range could be a little poetic or creative, if not for the haunting lure of sleep.