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I just read an interesting article Psychology Today about sleep cycles and insomnia.  It suggests that it's usually best to do nothing when dealing with insomnia; it usually resolves itself.  I'm fortunate to never have experienced any major sleep problems.  I've become somewhat inured to things like being turned over or being given a nebulizer treatment during the night.  Things like that do wake me up, at least partially, but I've trained myself to fall back asleep without much trouble.  I do tend to get my deepest sleep between 5 and 8 a.m., but the whole getting-up-for-work thing gets in the way of that.  Weekends are for catching up and I get crap from some of my nurses for sleeping in until 9 or 10.  I'm actually doing them a favor, though.  My disposition becomes much less agreeable if I have to get up early on a weekend.