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When it’s 3 am and you can’t get back to sleep, so you get up, but you can’t turn on the lights or make any noise because other people would wake up?
I Know the feeling. I often laugh when i catch myself doing a similar thing at 3am, I look like an assassin ballet dancer. I always find prepping before a good idea (glass of water, book ready). Sometimes candlelight works to lower light pollution but mostly a sympathetic flatmate/partner helps.
3am is a tough time…if it were a bit earlier I would sit in the living room with a low light and read, but at 3am I would just stay in bed and relax and wait for my spouse to get up which is usually at 5am. If I didn’t have pets, I might go for a walk outside. But we have some unusual cats who think they are dogs and like to walk with me and the dog, at that time of night the coyotes are out and I’m afraid they’d hunt the cats.
You know, a lot of people are concerned that they’ll wake others up if they leave the bedroom at night. However, most people who are in the house are sleeping quite soundly at this point, so as long as you remain reasonably considerate it’s very unlikely that you’ll disturb them!
I talked about this in this short YouTube video: How to implement stimulus control when you share your bed or have a family at home.
I hope this helps!
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