Stop blaming the water: the real reason you wake up at 2 a.m. is completely different.

It’s probably happened to you more than once: you go to bed tired, hoping to sleep all night, but around 2 a.m., you open your eyes and can’t get back to sleep. The first reaction is usually to blame the glass of water you drank before bed, but the truth is much more complex.

The real reason we wake up at 2 a.m.

According to sleep experts, the bladder is not always the primary culprit. It is actually an imbalance in how the body regulates fluids and temperature during the night.