Hello, I am Dr Hana Kaur Dhillon and this is Lights Out Lab, a show about sleep for people who would like to do more of it. In this first episode we are tackling the question I hear most often in clinic, which is why do I wake up at 3am and why can I not get back to sleep. If that is you, I want you to know two things straight away. Waking in the night is normal. Everyone does it. And the thing that keeps you awake afterwards is usually not your body, it is what you do in the next ten minutes. We will go through what a night of sleep actually looks like, why this gets worse as we get older, and the one habit I ask every patient to drop. No gadgets required. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.