Well I guess we are all running a day ahead. Good to see we are not alone with this problem. I didn’t see Arlo in yesterdays strip, must have gotten up looking for sheep or John.
Your body is at a low point in the circadian rhythm, HR and respirations twice a day, about 3 PM and 3 AM. That’s why 3 PM you feel a lull and is a good time for a short nap. While sleeping it may cause snoring, or worse snoring, apnea, etc… causing arousal from sleep…. or worse.
Funny, this popped up this morning. Last night we had about an hour of hard thunder and lightning. This is the time I got back to sleep, huge “fireworks” show with almost no rain.
The nice thing about being retired is that when (not it) I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep, I’ll just get up. I go on line or read until I’m sleepy and then go back to bed.
It’s six hours after bed time so my brain is rested, wants to think, and won’t shut up. My bladder is full, my feet are bare, the bathroom tile floor is cold, and the dog has smelled a critter in the yard. I’m not happy about it, but here I am.
3 AM is the best time of the night. I worked the midnight shift for decades. 3 AM is the time between really late and real early. It is also the best time to go to the Waffle House!
“Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, / And do such bitter business as the day / Would quake to look on.”
Nurses on night shift 12 hours long. That half-nauseated coffee breath time. When one patient needs the bathroom, flushing wakes up 1 or 2 more, which snowballs into all of them needing the bathroom. Ahh, sweet memories…
I am usually just getting ready for bed at 3:30 am, then I will sleep until 10 or 11 then have to get up to eat and take my morning medications and will be up a couple of hours and if still tired than I go back to bed for a while.
It is currently 1:44 am – the shank of the evening for us and the time of day I get time to myself as he is upstairs online. It is a good thing we were friends before we started dating as that is there behind everything else.
He gets upset that I don’t let him buy me things (no birthday, no anniversary, no Christmas, no Chanukah (we are mixed). I keep telling him that he should be happy that he is the only man in the world who had given his wife everything she wants. He will go crazy when I half mention something offhand to try to find it for me – but things I want never exist.
His latest search (for the past several years) is an alarm clock I would like which does not exist – digital, large numbers (so I can see it from bed without glasses), 24 hour clock (so I don’t feel the need to keep getting up and checking that it set for am not pm – all this my clock has now and he can find – but what cannot be found is a clock that is set by pushing a key pad – push the time in (push 1 0 00 for 10 am for example) instead of holding a button in as the times pass by to change the time/set the alarm and having to keep going around the clock when I don’t let go of the button in time!
Da'Dad about 1 month ago
Somebody mentioned the Witching Hour yesterday.
Partyalldatyme about 1 month ago
Well, 3:34 or 3:35 would be 25 or 6 to 4
SpacedInvader Premium Member about 1 month ago
Well I guess we are all running a day ahead. Good to see we are not alone with this problem. I didn’t see Arlo in yesterdays strip, must have gotten up looking for sheep or John.
cracker65 about 1 month ago
It’s that kind of thing that’s hard to explain.
a sage about 1 month ago
That’s about the time I finally get to sleep.
Lucy Rudy about 1 month ago
I wake up at 1:30 and 4:30 most nights. I would rather compromise with 3:30 only.
electricshadow Premium Member about 1 month ago
As far as my bladder is concerned, 3:30 is “potty” time.
carlosrivers about 1 month ago
It’s when I leave the house for work
micromos about 1 month ago
It’s 3:30 now and I am here!
gammaguy about 1 month ago
What, is it about 3:30?
tauyen about 1 month ago
For me it’s 2:30
saylorgirl about 1 month ago
I usually wake up at 3 every morning. Mostly because I have to potty. Once I’m up, I’m up.
Dogtreat Premium Member about 1 month ago
OMG, Right!!!
dwgerb about 1 month ago
Your body is at a low point in the circadian rhythm, HR and respirations twice a day, about 3 PM and 3 AM. That’s why 3 PM you feel a lull and is a good time for a short nap. While sleeping it may cause snoring, or worse snoring, apnea, etc… causing arousal from sleep…. or worse.
Cronkers McGee Premium Member about 1 month ago
I woke up at 4:30 am today with the alarm set for 5:00 am. Reading my comics is a good way to start the day.
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member about 1 month ago
Mine is 3:33
Gina Carson about 1 month ago
Just wait another three minutes. 3:33 is even more significant.
Thanksfortheinfo2000 about 1 month ago
3/30 is the penultimate day of March – if that helps…
Edgar Loftin Premium Member about 1 month ago
Up for awhile, so just reading this now at 4:30 – hoping to get back to sleep
WaitingMan about 1 month ago
4:44 is evil. At least in my world.
JessieRandySmithJr. about 1 month ago
Funny, this popped up this morning. Last night we had about an hour of hard thunder and lightning. This is the time I got back to sleep, huge “fireworks” show with almost no rain.
John Leonard Premium Member about 1 month ago
The thing about 3:30 is that it’s well-nigh unavoidable.
The Pro from Dover about 1 month ago
Friday morning at 3:30 as the day begins
Just-me about 1 month ago
Happens to me all the time. No pun intended.
My First Premium Member about 1 month ago
“It’s P O’clock somewhere”.
deepstblu about 1 month ago
It’s the deep, deep middle of the night. It’s so late that all you can do is hang on and wait for 4:00 when it starts becoming early again.
ladykat about 1 month ago
I tend to wake up around that time too, but then I go back to sleep.
well-i-never about 1 month ago
Exactly!!!
Jhony-Yermo about 1 month ago
0330. Time to GET UP is what it is about. For me anyway
SteveHL about 1 month ago
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
SkyGuy about 1 month ago
Isn’t 3:30 the time when Lutz went nuts and killed his family in the Amityville horror?
david_42 about 1 month ago
Playtime for puppies, which lasts until you have to go to work, then they nap.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 1 month ago
Are Arlo and Janis in the same bed…..??
Bruce1253 about 1 month ago
The nice thing about being retired is that when (not it) I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep, I’ll just get up. I go on line or read until I’m sleepy and then go back to bed.
Jimmyk939 about 1 month ago
I used to wake at 5:30am for work. I’d wake at 3:30, making sure that I hadn’t slept in
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe about 1 month ago
My Corgi’s appointed time for a whiz and bark at the deer
poppacapsmokeblower about 1 month ago
It’s six hours after bed time so my brain is rested, wants to think, and won’t shut up. My bladder is full, my feet are bare, the bathroom tile floor is cold, and the dog has smelled a critter in the yard. I’m not happy about it, but here I am.
royq27 about 1 month ago
My clock is my friend all night; I watch it until it gets light; something about my sleep patterns just isn’t right…
NELS BALWIT Premium Member about 1 month ago
3 AM is the best time of the night. I worked the midnight shift for decades. 3 AM is the time between really late and real early. It is also the best time to go to the Waffle House!
FassEddie about 1 month ago
3:30 ain’t so bad. It’s 1:30 – when you turned the lights out at 12:30 – that gets me.
T Smith about 1 month ago
It means I have to get up to pee… again.
ajakimber425 about 1 month ago
Who knows? The time I get up for work, I find myself getting up the same time on my days off. It’s annoying and the reason I think why I’m so tired.
mkw Premium Member about 1 month ago
There’s actually science behind it. Not hitting the exact moment, but the ~3 am wake up
donwestonmysteries about 1 month ago
For me it’s 6:40. Can’t sleep in.
lastwyf about 1 month ago
You’ve slept enough that it’s impossible to get back to sleep!
Thehag about 1 month ago
Back in the early 1980’s there was a small organic produce company – 3:30 A.M. Produce
got2bet about 1 month ago
Play the number on the lottery pick 3
EMGULS79 about 1 month ago
That’s exactly the time I REGULARLY get up to have time for running before work. (Of course, it does require getting to bed by 8:30 p.m.).
Bill The Nuke about 1 month ago
For me it’s 1:23. I’m thinking of writing a short story about this happening to some poor shmuck and am trying to come up with a good plot line.
John M about 1 month ago
I no longer have a clock I can see the time on at night – It stopped a lot of the stress of looking at the clock worrying about getting back to sleep.
rugeirn about 1 month ago
“Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, / And do such bitter business as the day / Would quake to look on.”
david.reichert about 1 month ago
3:30? Bathroom break.
thegreat.gildersleeve about 1 month ago
I solve this problem by covering the digital clock. If I really need to know the time, I’ll ask Alexa.
gigagrouch about 1 month ago
0400 is worse
bucker39 Premium Member about 1 month ago
Nurses on night shift 12 hours long. That half-nauseated coffee breath time. When one patient needs the bathroom, flushing wakes up 1 or 2 more, which snowballs into all of them needing the bathroom. Ahh, sweet memories…
sfrench about 1 month ago
That’s usually about the time my bladder is like, “Ok, that’s enough sleep. Empty me now!”
HarryLime Premium Member about 1 month ago
I believe that we are all cursed to wake up halfway through our slumber …
Kidon Ha-Shomer about 1 month ago
dog o’clock
Dr_Fogg about 1 month ago
Mine is 4 a.m. even if I don’t have to go…
fritzoid Premium Member about 1 month ago
Horizontal symmetry, if you’re into that…
Ed Brault Premium Member about 1 month ago
03:30, when out two smallest cats begin excavating a strip mine in their sandboxes!
Uncle Bob about 1 month ago
when you question stuff at three in the morning and three in the afternoon, you get different answers…
KeithJ63 about 1 month ago
The same time my body tells me to get up and go…….
Sambora1 about 1 month ago
I am usually just getting ready for bed at 3:30 am, then I will sleep until 10 or 11 then have to get up to eat and take my morning medications and will be up a couple of hours and if still tired than I go back to bed for a while.
Ukko wilko about 1 month ago
It’s 40 minutes before my usual time to get up.
eced52 about 1 month ago
Mandatory pee break.
mistercatworks about 1 month ago
Nothing, lots of nothing, lots of quiet, worrisome nothing.
mafastore about 1 month ago
It is currently 1:44 am – the shank of the evening for us and the time of day I get time to myself as he is upstairs online. It is a good thing we were friends before we started dating as that is there behind everything else.
He gets upset that I don’t let him buy me things (no birthday, no anniversary, no Christmas, no Chanukah (we are mixed). I keep telling him that he should be happy that he is the only man in the world who had given his wife everything she wants. He will go crazy when I half mention something offhand to try to find it for me – but things I want never exist.
His latest search (for the past several years) is an alarm clock I would like which does not exist – digital, large numbers (so I can see it from bed without glasses), 24 hour clock (so I don’t feel the need to keep getting up and checking that it set for am not pm – all this my clock has now and he can find – but what cannot be found is a clock that is set by pushing a key pad – push the time in (push 1 0 00 for 10 am for example) instead of holding a button in as the times pass by to change the time/set the alarm and having to keep going around the clock when I don’t let go of the button in time!