okay so there’s a couple of issues here. number one is it bad to be conscious in the middle of the night? no it’s perfectly normal. uh number two. sleep is a perception okay and people need to know and understand what that what i mean by that is if you woke up four times is that bad sleep? no probably not. uh do you think it’s bad sleep and then internalize that and then feel bad because of it? probably so. and so what people have to know and understand is what is normal for sleep first of all and then they have that perception of that. an example is you may sleep six and a half hours tonight and say well i’m an 8 hour girl and i feel horrible. i’m a six and a half hour guy. i actually always have been and so if i sleep six and a half i feel great. but the perception is very different. so again looking at sleep you have to understand what does it mean to you and thereby understand what’s normal. so if you wake up in the middle of the night several times that’s perfectly normal thing to do. you fall back to sleep within 3 to 4 minutes you’re in good shape.
does waking briefly during the night mean poor sleep?