We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how staying in bed when you jolt awake at 3am can sometimes be counterproductive. Sometimes, getting out of bed and reading or doing something else that distracts you from your sleep issues without getting you too revved up can be helpful. But it turns out that some sleep experts recommend an extra step for frequent middle-of-the-night risers such as myself. Clock-blocking (yes, really) could be the key to the night-long kip of our dreams, they say. What’s clock blocking?It’s pretty hard to type the phrase with a straight face, but according to some studies, there could be some serious benefits to “clock blocking.” Looking at the time when you’ve woken up late at night can make you anxious, which spells bad news for your attempts at getting back to sleep. Dr Jake Deutsch