Greg Murray – Why do we wake around 3am and dwell on our fears and shortcomings?

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This has happened to me, I've demolished someone on twitter, which easy to do with science deniers, only to wake up at 3am and feel that I was far too horrible and mean, but when I look at my tweets after I have gotten up, I find that I was actually quite reasonable and polite. But I've had it happen in other situations too. When I wake at 3am or so, I’m prone to picking on myself. And I know I’m not the only one who does this. A friend of mine calls 3am thoughts “barbed-wire thinking”, because you can get caught in it.The thoughts are often distressing and punitive. Strikingly, these concerns vaporise in the daylight, proving that the 3am thinking was completely irrational and unproductive."Why do we wake around 3am and dwell on our fears and shortcomings?" Greg Murray - Why do we wake

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