What it feels like to be awake at 4am (Playlist)

✰ Timestamps ✰
00:00 | Your Eyes - Antent
02:09 | Aglow (intro) - Karamel Kel
04:15 | School Rooftop (intro, slowed) - Hisohkah
06:21 | apathy - Øneheart
08:18 | quiet solitude - nowt
11:54 | Homesick - Antent
14:11 | The Beach (instrumental) - The Neighborhood
18:03 | Aproape (instrumental) - libelullah
19:27 | distorted memories - Øneheart, reidenshi
21:18 | Limerence (instrumental, slowed) - Yves Tumor
24:23 | if it's real, then i'll stay - Bonjr
28:10 | until december - Willix
31:18 | Pulse - Antent
33:27 | you not the same - TileKid
35:37 | this feeling - Øneheart
37:12 | drowning - Vague003
39:09 | unfortunately - leadwave
40:41 | snowfall - Øneheart, reidenshi
42:44 | Comfort Chain - Instupendo
45:46 | watching the stars - Øneheart
47:26 | Safe Now - Harris Cole, Aso
48:59 | first snow - Antent
51:01 | cold heart - c152

[TheStonedRaccn]

2-4 am has always been a strange time for me. On one hand, it's serene and filled with a peaceful and still silence. But on the other, it's strangely melancholic as I can't help but remember the past and wish things had turned out differently. this playlist captures those feelings perfectly.

[theaikolee]

It’s 5am. I haven’t slept. Late at night is the time to be alive, you know? Nobody’s here to pester you, nobody’s here to judge you, it’s like a break from everything. A long, well deserved break.

[tlucas]

As a teenager, I often used to stay up until 4 AM. Now that I'm an adult, I often wake up at 4 AM. Its interesting how both sides of 4:00 have such different feels, but how this playlist captures both.

[drewberriesandcream]

being awake at a time like 4am feels like being in a liminal space. no one is really telling you that you’re wrong, but you still feel like you’re breaking a rule

[ionemartin]

There's something so beautiful about the night, yet. It also gives me this gut wrenching feeling of loneliness, and longing.
It's so quiet, and cold, and empty. I'm bored but I don't want to go to sleep, I don't want to wake up the next day.
Does anyone else get this feeling?

[Cupids_fiction]

4am is fr my favourite time. Not so early that you still feel lethargic, not so late that you feel like you've wasted a night, but right in between the turning of what days feel like. I always get a little burst of energy for the hour. The haze outside my window as neither the sun or moon move, yet I can feel it getting brighter. It sucks now that I actually fixed my sleep schedule I only get to see that beautiful time maybe once a month. But the blueness and the stillness turning to movement as the birds wake up is just beautiful. I've found that 4am seems to be the only stagnant time.

Then 5am comes and it's morning again.

[brandonclarke]

The reward for staying up during these hours is peace.

[Brianrelix]

If you’re going through a difficult or uncertain time right now, know that you will make it through

[Pilps]

Born 1993, when I was around 5/6 me and my family had to move to Germany, Osnabruck because my Dad was stationed there for being in the British Army. We stayed there until 2001. I can honestly say from what memories are still there in my head, are the best years of my life. If I could just relive those days, just for a few hours, I would be so happy.

I spend hours crying happy/sad tears on Google Earth Pro with the time machine of the maps. Seeing my old Primary School before it was demolished. Seeing the Army barracks my dad was at before that too was sadly demolished. Seeing my old childhood home which I haven't seen since we left 23 years ago.

It's even more saddening with how Germany's privacy laws are. Google Street view is practically none existent. So the buildings and the streets I fondly remember are mainly just these pixelated resemblances of buildings that I still vividly remember from my childhood but I can't see how are now or was a few years ago. I only have what I remember, and the odd remnants of videos here on YouTube which is extremely lacking and rare to find

Thankfully some time last year, Germany finally lifted those privacy laws for Google Maps Street view and i finally got to see my home again for the first time since we all left way back in 2001. I will be honest. I've never cried so much in such a long time. It was harrowingly different everywhere i looked around Osnabruck but I could also see things that haven't changed at all.

The walks we went on, the Warner Brothers Movie Theme Park down south near Dorsten. Pony rides in the woods and picking the oldest one there who was called Boris. I picked him all the time because he liked to eat the grass a lot which made the ride last longer so I could spend more time with him. The little & big lake walk just behind the Nettebad. The traditional Christmas Markets in the town centre. Playing video games when my Dad finally came home on my Playstation 1, we would try and beat the games in one day but never could because I didn't have a memory card. Getting excited whenever Pokemon was on the TV. Friends round mine to share the big swimming pool I had.

Watching Halloween Town before going out trick or treating. Finding our first ever pet, a kitten abandoned behind a grit bin while we were on a bike ride and taking her home, we named her Millie. So many memories. All lost to time. With only old VHS tapes & photographs to try and relive those memories at least just a tiny bit.

Oh what Id do just to go back to those days. Nostalgia is such a beautiful but cruel mistress. I hate to love it and love to hate it. I Miss you Osnabruck. I miss you childhood.

But. I have a baby daughter now. And I honestly can not wait to be the best father I can possibly be. And to make everlasting memories with her that she can look back on and smile just as much as I do looking back at the ones I made with my Mum & Dad.

Oh Germany. Oh Osnabruck. Oh childhood. You were the best of days. I'll revisit you one day. With the whole family hopefully.

[green_shell]

Sometimes I like to stay up late and watch the world out my window. It faces the street so I see and hear every car that goes by. I just watch each car pass and wonder whats going on in that persons life that’s causing them to be up at 4am. It makes me realize that every person that passes by doesn’t know I even exist. It’s a strange feeling but, kind of peaceful? I don’t know I’m tired , ’)
Hope whoever’s reading this has a good, fresh, new day!

[rxndom]

“And being so young
And dipped in folly
I fell in love
With melancholy”
-Edgar Allen Poe

[fxded_]

if i’m awake at 4am i tend to sit in my cold window with a nostalgic breeze of that cold earthy dew smell and write about something that had clouded my mind while listening to music like this. And i don’t care what spa or relaxation resort you go to, nothing is as relaxing and fulfilling as that in my opinion.

[Kiwitwttt]

2-4 is probably the best time to be awake. most people are asleep and you can just do anything within the peaceful silence. things seem to sometimes feel unreal because of how peaceful and silent it is. walking around at night and even being outside during these times really bring out the joy in me. I love being alone.

[sprinklez]

Imagine that this is your "blue hour" for a moment. Just you contemplating the wonder of existence in tranquility. It's beautiful, isn't it, to be lying on the roof, watching the clouds and stars in the sky, while a cold breeze blows through your hair? The only sounds in the background are the wind and your thoughts. Enjoy your blue hour while you can; you're feeling utter tranquility, gratitude for life, nostalgia, and peace.

[TheApochRaptor]

I love how everyone’s explaining why 4am is their favorite time. It’s really wholesome.

For me, it’s not only the brief break from reality and expectations, but it’s also the time my cat settles in for the night. She’ll curl up right next to me, sometimes in my lap if I’m not doing anything, and she just sleeps. She purrs as loud as she possibly can and just sleeps. She doesn’t move until I do. She has to readjust sometimes, and when she does she greets me with a soft meow and does her little circles.

When the rest of the house is awake, she’s more aloof and won’t really snuggle up to me like she does at night. Like she’s knows I’m awake too, and that I need someone there for me. Her presence reminds me that it’s okay. Everything will be okay.

[thegates-pearly]

its crazy how a playlist gathers people around the world, for the same time of day (night i guess)

yall also got that 5:55am feeling? seeing how the sun slowly rises, hearing distant bird noises and far off in the distance, the first cars and trucks? realizing how your peaceful moment will be destroyed by everyday life in a few minutes, feeling a mix between tired and dissapointed but somehow also have a moment of joy, while the first sunrays get into your pov, knowing u made it into a new day. kinda happy to be alive even tho u dont know what to expect like, will i make it till the next sunrise? and if not, does it mean it wont be peaceful? wondering why exactly u, of all people u know, gotta be the one awake through the night while everyone else seems to be asleep, wondering if you ever will be also one of them one day, maybe u wont, maybe u will - its scary but hey, you better get ready now, the first lights poppin up on those windows besides you, its time.

[deboradediego]

the worst part is when it ends!!! it ends too fast!! i use it when i'm studying, i swear, this reduces my anxiety, i'm preparing my final exams and i play it over and over, i hope you make a longer playlist but you slayed!!!! thanksss

[Skydenski]

It's 4AM for me. I want to sleep but I can't seem to fall back asleep, my eyes are burning to properly rest. What a lovely playlist though, soothing. Makes the suffering more bearable

[coreycarlson]

i’m not usually awake at 4am, but it’s currently 4:15am at the time of writing this. i’m looking out my bedroom window, which is pretty much ground level. i see half of a tree, and the rooftop of my neighbor’s house in my backyard.

the vibe has been a bit more melancholic that i thought it would be… an overwhelming blend of loneliness and nothingness at the same time. to think that, right now, this is the current time of day where the majority of human beings are as close to lifeless as they can get- an idle stage that occurs every night, and the time when nothing. really. matters.

i mentioned my window, and i look outside to a gray/blue hue sky, as the sun has not yet risen. i’m feeling some tears run down my face because this feeling of loneliness and purposelessness is tough to bear. i don’t really know. all of this feels to difficult to express in the english language. how can one feel such unexplainable versions of feelings we’ve always known?

[dariocorso]

it's not easy to explain what you feel while listening to these tracks, probably a mix between fear, nostalgia and hope