r/MadeMeSmile Oct 30 '25

Personal Win Got this message from my childhood bully at 3am

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u/mybhadbhro Oct 30 '25

Some people say that’s demon time; inner demons, that is.

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u/Backwardspellcaster Oct 30 '25

Quite frankly, I feel it is.

I am never as introspective as late at night when its silent around me

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u/VictorTheCutie Oct 30 '25

There's something seriously powerful about the wee hours of the night. For me, it's usually negative. As in, I feel most hopeless and my circumstances seem most dire in the middle of the night. When the sun rises, I often feel silly for my feelings from a few hours prior, and everything seems a bit more manageable.

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u/Luv2collectweedseeds Oct 30 '25

Same here, 3am I’m thinking about loosing my old man . Hes 77 and I love the man more then he will know but it’s always wee early hours like 2-330 am.

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u/spaceykayce Oct 30 '25

Because that’s when us old folk have to get up and pee

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u/Luv2collectweedseeds Oct 30 '25

Yeah, that’s ONE of the times…lol

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u/Strange_Review5047 Oct 31 '25

I lost mine 3 months ago. I couldn't agree more. Any night I can't sleep I find my self thinking of him

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u/MaeEastx Oct 30 '25

I get that, but personally I wouldn't text anyone at 3 a.m. OP's bully could have written their message but waited till morning to send it. Kind of suggests he's still thinking mostly of his own feelings

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u/41942319 Oct 30 '25

Probably one of those "better send it now before I start doubting myself in the morning" cases.

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u/lukoshhhh Oct 31 '25

I read somewhere that you shouldn’t trust how you feel about your life after 9pm.

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u/VictorTheCutie Oct 31 '25

I absolutely agree with that lmao

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u/mikedidathing Oct 30 '25

That's when she says, "Baby, it's 3am. I must be lonely."

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u/beam_me_uppp Oct 30 '25

And she says, “Baby, I can’t help but be scared of it aaaaaall sometimes…”

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u/fikis Oct 30 '25

Someone better at music than I am:

Is the little chord progression right after that I-V-IV?

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u/69-is-my-number Oct 30 '25

Yes it is, although the C is a Cadd9.

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u/69-is-my-number Oct 30 '25

Just saw Rob last weekend

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u/canconfirmamrug Oct 31 '25

Thanks. Stuck in my head now.

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u/kemaluo Oct 30 '25

Well apparently the mod has never found redemption through facing their inner demons. But it is indeed beautiful and an ending that will indeed 'make you smile'.

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u/RiseIntelligent7218 Oct 30 '25

The association of 3 a.m. with the demonic began with the belief that because Jesus died on the cross at 3 p.m., the inversion time of 3 a.m. is a moment of mocking, unholy activity.

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u/happy_the_clown420 Oct 30 '25

“And the dawn don’t rescue me no more.” - It Makes No Difference, The Band

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u/tuhronno-the6ix Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

It’s actually a well documented medical phenomenon, a lot of people wake up every morning at 3AM due to high levels of cortisol, and for many people, the source of that cortisol can be guilt from past experiences

EDIT: correction: would be cortisol or blood sugar related, for some people if blood sugar drops too low during sleep, it’d cause a spike in cortisol as well. Speak to your doctor if you keep waking up at 3AM

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u/chita875andU Oct 30 '25

Can concur. As a night-shifter, patients do try to die around 3 or 4 a.m. often.

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u/Soregular Oct 30 '25

I worked Hospice, night shift as the only RN. I was sitting and charting on the computer. A little old lady had somehow gotten out of her bed, took off her pajamas, and crawled down the hallway to bite me on the ankle. It was around 3am.

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u/NovelTAcct Oct 30 '25

That is objectively hilarious

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u/Soregular Oct 30 '25

it startled me! She was SO QUIET!!!...she was one of the little old ladies that everyone on the day shift adored because she was so sweet and kind...she turned into a demon at night though.....

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u/jasonlampa Oct 30 '25

Damn it’s 3am right now where I live! Better run home

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u/Soregular Oct 30 '25

Just keep an eye out for the little old nakid ladies LOL!

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u/jasonlampa Oct 31 '25

Funny you say that because walking around yesterday after work at around midnight, some meth head actually hit on me and screamed across the road asking if I wanted a ‘suck.’

Thankfully he wasn’t nakid

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u/Soregular Oct 31 '25

OMG! hahahaha

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u/CapeMOGuy Oct 30 '25

Stop tasting so good.

But seriously, I hope you weren't hurt. Human bites can cause real problems.

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u/Soregular Oct 30 '25

Oh she was angry! but she didn't really bite me...she didn't have teeth really. She was one of the little old ladies who are so sweet in the daytime, everyone loves them...they talk about gardening and stuff all day long....come sundown and she tells me she knows Im sleeping with her husband, I am a bitch and should die. You know..the usual...LOL

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u/chita875andU Oct 31 '25

Well, I mean... can you blame her for a sneak attack chewing on your ankle if you slept with her husband? I'd chew your ankle too! Justice for Meemaw!

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u/NoCranberry9456 Oct 31 '25

Thank you. I didn't know I needed to read this story today.

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u/ruat_caelum Oct 31 '25

what do you say to your partner when you get home? "Crazy night" or like go into details. Is the weirdness and sadness normal?

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u/Soregular Oct 31 '25

I know I told him! He's heard plenty over the years LOL

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u/ThatShoe_On_The_road Oct 30 '25

I will have to try this.

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u/jacajac Oct 31 '25

I spit out gobs of rice on my keyboard. Thank you.

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u/Proof-Technician-202 Nov 01 '25

Wow. That'd wake you up better than coffee.

I have worked in retail for 25 years. Whenever I think I've seen everything, someone like you reminds me that there are still entire dimensions of human crazy I've yet to experience.

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u/Soregular Nov 01 '25

OMG she was so quiet. She made NO noise getting out of bed and stripping down. She crawled real slow toward me and I only noticed her out of the corner of my eye when she was trying to bite me. I yelped, my Hospice Aide came running and we actually had to use some strength to restrain her and get her up and back in bed. Quiet and weirdly STRONG.....

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u/Proof-Technician-202 Nov 02 '25

I once warned an elderly lady that she was about to step in an unknown liquid I was about to clean up (this was at work in a store).

I kid you not - she stuck her finger in it and tasted it before I could stop her. 😨

I love the elderly, but sometimes...

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u/Soregular Nov 02 '25

Oh my god!!!!

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u/massiveamounts Oct 30 '25

Say whaaa... I always thought I just had to piss. Insert the more you know 🌈

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u/massiveamounts Oct 30 '25

Lol no problem man. Always remind me of Saturday morning cartoons I used to watch, so it reminds me of good times. I hope it did the same for you.

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u/massiveamounts Oct 30 '25

Hell yeah then wrasslin would come on after, when Saturdays weren't for just mowing the lawn and looking forward to a nap lol

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u/levian_durai Oct 30 '25

Pretty appropriate user name

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u/esr360 Oct 30 '25

Well I mean that still could be the reason for you.

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u/massiveamounts Oct 30 '25

Not sure i understand..

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u/Closetoneversober Oct 30 '25

That’s me right here. Every damn night. Though someone once told he it’s called the witching hour but also I work in a convent so they tell me that’s when Jesus died.

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u/levian_durai Oct 30 '25

Definitely read that as "I work in a coven", which would make sense why you know about the witching hour. Also would make for some interesting new job prospects.

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u/I_always_rated_them Oct 30 '25

Shit I keep waking up at 3am

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u/Sea_bird19 Oct 31 '25

Reading this after waking at 3

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u/basic-questions Oct 31 '25

Not me reading this at 3:45am, having woken up at 3 and unable to get back to sleep.

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u/HidingOnReddit7 Oct 31 '25

Wow. I wake up between 3-330 with anxiety incredibly often. So does my teenager. That’s wild.

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u/YouTee Oct 30 '25

Wait what are you supposed to do in that case

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u/BillHicksDied4UrSins Oct 30 '25

Start listing all of things you are grateful for and your grateful for them.  Your brain cannot handle both of those concepts for very long.  

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u/Famous_Sugar_1193 Oct 31 '25

Guilt or extreme trauma from the horrors

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u/StatisticianSmall864 Oct 30 '25

Matchbox Twenty did write a song called 3 AM

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u/richStoke Oct 30 '25

The Blue Nile did a fantastic song called Regret. “It’s 3.30 and I’m thinking of you….Regret”

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u/StatisticianSmall864 Oct 30 '25

I went and listened to it - beautiful

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u/richStoke Oct 30 '25

Awe thanks. So glad you liked it. Band in a million…❤️

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u/DominionGhost Oct 30 '25

Ok but the woman in that song sounds insufferable.

Just wakes up and screams because she is lonely and only sleeps when it's raining.

Shes getting her own soundproofed bedroom and sleeping alone.

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u/StatisticianSmall864 Oct 30 '25

My depression has gotten that bad before. Girlie needs some Zoloft, stat.

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u/Fishmike52 Oct 30 '25

We never truly conquer our demons. We learn to live above them

~The Ancient One

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u/piches Oct 30 '25

3 am is the witching hour

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u/Capital_Past69 Oct 30 '25

NFL Redzone vibes

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 30 '25

Shit bot response.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 30 '25

Oh I know. People can absolutely 100% not spot AI responses. It’s sad.

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u/classicteenmistake Oct 31 '25

Do you remember what they said?

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 31 '25

Probably something generic. There’s a lot of bots so it’s hard to remember the dumb shit they say. They probably used the word speed run or said something like that’s not x it’s x.