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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Imy Brighty-Potts

THE TRUTH ABOUT: This is why you keep waking up at 4am and what you can do about it | History Defined

Ever find yourself awake, staring into space at four in the morning? Is it just a bad habit, or is there something more sinister going on? And why does it always seem to happen at 4am?

“We start to experience less deep sleep after around four to five hours,” says Lisa Artis, deputy CEO of The Sleep Charity, who have partnered with Simba mattresses. And once we’re in that lighter sleep faze, we wake much more easily.

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