What are some productive things to do when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep for a few hours?

HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 96 points –

I'm looking for suggestions that zombie-me could follow through with. The problem is I can barely bring myself to get out of bed, let alone do a useful task. It just wastes typically 2–5 hours of my life as I wait for tiredness to finally (re)take hold.

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I understand this is your experience but I've yet to see this confirmed by any well crafted studies.

That could be the case. I don't know if any long term melatonin use studies have been conducted. But they do caution against using it long term given the safety of it hasn't been well studied.