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It's a circadian rhythm thing. You get into a habit of peeing at specific times, and that can include in the middle of the night.

You can fix the habit by waiting a half hour longer to pee each night until you can make it to the morning, but this does involve lying awake in bed for a while, which is much worse for your sleep than just getting up quickly to pee.

I've fixed this a few times in my life by just going to bed thirsty until I break the nightly habit.

On the flip side, I typically drink 16-32 oz of water before sleeping and never wake up needing to pee.

If I drink past 2pm I'm up...weird but only started after I was 40 really. I'm starting to think my sleep just sucks so my mind is more aware that I have to go and not that something has changed with my bladder

I believe that may be an indicator of an enlarged prostate, if you have one.