While it seems like that may be the case, it’s often not. Many smokers wake up during the night to smoke. I personally know people who are like that. I can also say from my own experience with nicotine addiction that cravings can make it hard to fall asleep and stay asleep. Even when I was asleep I’d often dream about vaping or smoking cigarettes and sometimes even just the dreams would wake me up.
Much in the same way people have sleep for dinner, the body is great at shutting down its own signals when it needs to sleep. Think about how you’ll sleep through a full bladder and even have pee dreams, but you’ll still sleep through until your bladder reaches a point of pain
The interesting thing is that we’ve evolved to sleep through almost anything that the body doesn’t deem dangerous, but pain wakes people up and keeps people awake. Obviously some pain can be slept through, but the body treats pain as a threat to survival and wakes us up
I always knew which corner of the sheet went to my dad’s head because every set had multiple cigarette holes in them. He’d wake up in the middle of the night, light up his cigarette and fall back asleep with it in his hand. Only to wake up to the stinging of having rolled on top of it. He got one mattress pretty good though once. Said when he woke up he had to pour his soda on it. Luckily it was flame retardent at this point in time and it only sorta melted a hole in his pillow top.
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