Still awake?

You're not bad at sleeping. Something specific is doing this to you — and in two minutes you'll know exactly what.

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It's 3am. Again.

You've done the maths on how many hours are left. You've told yourself to stop thinking. And underneath all of it sits the same quiet fear: that something in you is broken.

Nothing in you is broken.

Three things your body does at night

Half your brain stays awake in a strange bed

One side drops into shallow sleep and listens. Ducks and dolphins do the same thing, only fully — and by the second night it stands down on its own.

At 3am everything feels twice as bad

Your body sits at its coldest and least alert. The part of your brain that keeps things in proportion is the least awake of all. The problem didn't grow — you shrank.

You wake a minute before your alarm

Your body started preparing an hour ago, warming up and speeding your heart. It would rather wake you gently than let something startle you.

None of it is a fault.

It's equipment built for a world with no locks, no roofs and no clocks — still running in your bedroom, every night, whether you like it or not.

So which one is doing it to you?

There are five reasons people lie awake, and the fix for each one is different. Guessing wrong is why most sleep advice does nothing for you.

Twelve questions. Two minutes. Then you stop guessing.

Free · 12 questions · 2 minutes

All of that costs nothing and always will. Later on, when you've logged a couple of weeks, there's a Plus that reads those weeks back to you — €19.99 a year, about five cents a night. Not something to decide now.