Caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine all disturb sleeping patterns. The processes that go on during sleep are sensitive not just to alcohol in the bloodstream but alcohol having been in the bloodstream. That's the crazy bit. The alcohol may have metabolised out of your body hours before you went to sleep but residual effects remain. The transitions between the various sleep phases that the body undergoes every night are really sensitive and easily upset.
Is it normal that I can only sleep a few hours after drinking alcohol?
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Caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine all disturb sleeping patterns. The processes that go on during sleep are sensitive not just to alcohol in the bloodstream but alcohol having been in the bloodstream. That's the crazy bit. The alcohol may have metabolised out of your body hours before you went to sleep but residual effects remain. The transitions between the various sleep phases that the body undergoes every night are really sensitive and easily upset.