Why do people always say they woke up to a noise in "the middle of the night", got up to get a drink of water in "the middle of the night", or got up to go to the bathroom in "the middle of the night?" Why is "the middle of the night" always emphasized? Do people calculate? Well, I went to bed at 10pm, got up at 6am.......so that bathroom visit would HAVE to be at 2am to make it truly the "middle of the night." Why not just say I got up during the night? I heard a noise at "some point" last night. Do people choose the "middle of the night" to show they were in a deep sleep, like the exact middle of their rest? Actually our deepest sleep comes toward the end of our sleep. I heard that on one of those 20/20 type shows once. Does the person they are telling the story to care if they heard gun fire in the middle of the night or early in the night? The good part is the gun shot part, not the time of the shots. Did you hear screams, did the police come? Not, what exact point in your sleep did these shots occur? People want the nuts and bolts to the story, not the frivolous details.
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Well lets's see. If you're asleep for 1 hour or it's 1 hour or maybe even 2 before you wake up,is it still the middle of the night? It's a broad scale to differentiate the middle of the night vs. just after falling asleep or just before waking up. So what do we call it then or do we have to call it anything at all? Why not just last night or this morning? Hmmmmm...
Well lets's see. If you're asleep for 1 hour or it's 1 hour or maybe even 2 before you wake up,is it still the middle of the night? It's a broad scale to differentiate the middle of the night vs. just after falling asleep or just before waking up. So what do we call it then or do we have to call it anything at all? Why not just last night or this morning? Hmmmmm...
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