Good question and a great segue into a fun fact: it seems quite possible people waking up in the middle of the night was the norm for centuries, and that the assumption of sleeping the whole night is potentially a more modern idea.

I am having trouble finding a specific article, but a historian recently catalogued a large number of historical entries which note 'the second sleep'. He basically posited that it's likely that for ages, people in the pre-industrial world would sleep for about 3-4 hours, wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or two, and would then go back to sleep. Article talking about it.

Articles quite often say that writing as far back as homer talk about an hour which terminates the first sleep like a normal thing everyone knows about. I haven't read much of homer or Virgil so i can't personally confirm or deny that.

Being awake at night is just normal for me.

Yeah, in fact there's a lot of evidence that biphasic/segmented sleep was quite common through history.

It isn't really until the industrial revolution and long artificially strict working days that things shifted towards a single longer sleep period being more common.

No, you're supposed to stay up until 3am when you need to wake up at 7am

I do, it's awful honestly.

I can follow a strict diet all day, no problem.

However, when I wait up at 1am it's hard to explain, like I've already given in so I can just go ahead and eat whatever.

Good god i wish i slept through the night

If I'm stuck spending my entire afternoon at work, then I'm going to take back my free time by spending it in the peace and quiet of the night. I've never been a morning person anyways.

Why do birds suddenly appear?

Plenty of people have told you 'yes' but I wanted to just say that this meme resonates with me, not because I wake up in the middle of the night, but because I've developed a really bad habit of eating about 1-2 hours before bed on snacks. I know it's a habit and not just being hungry because I've been still-full from dinner and went "This is about when I'd be having a snack" and suddenly I want one.

Not having late night snacks really is the best way to break that habit but yeah the meme is a mood.

Yeah, I’ve got a toddler

This! Sober me know I dont need to be inhaling so many calories of chips and cookies at night. High me on the other hand really hates sober me

Yeah seriously, all I get for a "pantry", is a narrow cabinet next to the fridge that is about 30% wide as the rest of the kitchen cabinets. It's so small that I freed up a ton of available space by installing spice racks on the inside of the door.

Here in sweden we have something like this in the basements of at least all the old apartment buildings (not sure if it's still being put into new construction).
Basically just a second storage room, but intended for stocking up on food, which i'm starting to REALLY wish people knew about because it would be rather nice if everyone had a pantry full of food and water if we have to rush down into the basement to take shelter for.. some reason.......

This is the way: either low-calorie or high satiation, and as much fibre as possible so you're at least gaining something from it.

I like baking carrot cake with as little sugar as is needed to make it taste good (which is remarkably less than recipes call for, i think i'm removing like A THIRD), and using whatever kind of flour has the highest proportion of fibre.
It's not healthy as such, but at least for me as someone who burns a decent amount of calories, it's something i can snack on as much as i want without feeling bad (with the significant caveat of doing so AFTER i've eaten something more proper, so it's not displacing the "real" food).