How long do you sleep every day? Do you feel sleepy when you stay up late to review for your exam and get up early the next day? Sure, of course. But, do you have this kind of experience that you feel sleepy and groggy when you sleep too much? I do. We all know that we feel drowsy if we do not have enough sleep time. But is it possible for us to feel drowsy if we sleep too much?
A study suggested that seven and a half to nine hours of sleep every night is required for most of the healthy adults to function at their best. Therefore, what if people spend more than 10 hours sleeping? Are they refreshing after sleep for more than 10 hours? The answer is no. Here is my personal experience, during the summer vocation, I slept 11 hours every day. Each time I woke up, I felt drowsy and even headache. This actually happens. Dr. Lisa Shives, medical director at Northshore Sleep Medicine in Evanston, Illinois, indicated that when an individual hovers within sleep and wakefulness, it is called sleep drunkenness. It makes people feel groggy after sleep too much time. Feeling groggy makes people lazy and feel sleepy. That is why we always feel sleepy when oversleeping.
Besides, researchers said that oversleeping has impact to the certain neurotransmitters in the brain, including serotonin. Therefore, people might have headache when they wake up after they sleep too much.
To sum up, it is important to notice that having too little time sleeping makes people feel slouching while having too much time sleeping also causes sleepy, drowsy and groggy. It has physical side effects to our health, such as causing obesity and back pain. Sleeping is one of the factors that affect our health. What we should do is to control the time we sleep so that we can make our body function works better.
Sources:
http://www.helpguide.org/articles/sleep/how-much-sleep-do-you-need.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/30/oversleeping.health.effects/index.html?eref=ib_us
http://www.m.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/physical-side-effects-oversleeping?page=3
Actually your blog proves my own experience: sometimes I feel headache or simply not myself when getting up from long sleep hours. During some research, I find that there are several drawbacks of oversleeping. One of them is the risk of depression. In a 2014 study of adult twins, researchers found that long sleep duration increased a person’s risk of depression symptoms. The study participants who slept between seven and nine hours a night had a 27 percent heritability of depressive symptoms, while those who slept nine hours or more had a 49 percent heritability. (source) As stated in philosophy, never get too little or too much of anything. Science keeps helping us explain phenomena in our daily lives. As we talked about in class, the strongest evidence science can give is through conducting experiments, not listening to companies or people of eminence.
Actually your blog proves my own experience: sometimes I feel headache or simply not myself when getting up from long sleep hours. During some research, I find that there are several drawbacks of oversleeping. One of them is the risk of depression. In a 2014 study of adult twins, researchers found that long sleep duration increased a person’s risk of depression symptoms. The study participants who slept between seven and nine hours a night had a 27 percent heritability of depressive symptoms, while those who slept nine hours or more had a 49 percent heritability. (source) As stated in philosophy, never get too little or too much of anything. Science keeps helping us explain phenomena in our daily lives. As we talked about in class, the strongest evidence science can give is through conducting experiments, not listening to companies or people of eminence.
Yes!!! And terrible headaches. I should really stop napping! Thank you for this! Hopefully I’ll start to feel better!
Although i’m not the type of person who likes to sleep in late or does it very often, I know exactly what this post is talking about. When I go to sleep at a normal hour and wake up at around 9 or 10 the next morning, I feel energized and ready for the day. However, if I stay up late and sleep in past 11 the next day, I feel extremely groggy and have no motivation to get up. I could probably sleep the rest of the day if I was able to. So yes, it is definitely possible for someone to feel sleepy from sleeping too much.
This is the question I want to ask long time ago. Sometimes when I sleep too long in the afternoon, I will feel so sleepy after I getting up, however, when I only sleep one hour in the afternoon, I won’t feel sleepy until midnight.
Actually your blog proves my own experience: sometimes I feel headache or simply not myself when getting up from long sleep hours. During some research, I find that there are several drawbacks of oversleeping. One of them is the risk of depression. In a 2014 study of adult twins, researchers found that long sleep duration increased a person’s risk of depression symptoms. The study participants who slept between seven and nine hours a night had a 27 percent heritability of depressive symptoms, while those who slept nine hours or more had a 49 percent heritability. (source)
As stated in philosophy, never get too little or too much of anything. Science keeps helping us explain phenomena in our daily lives. As we talked about in class, the strongest evidence science can give is through conducting experiments, not listening to companies or people of eminence.
I have always wondered this. When I plan to oversleep, I am very happy because I think that I can catch up on all this sleep and I will wake up refreshed. But when I sleep in for like 10 hours or over, I wake up still kind of tired, and it confuses me. I am thankful that I read this blog because I now know that too much sleep can leave you feeling slouchy. I will now be more conscious with how long I sleep in.
This blog post definitely got me thinking, i’m guilty of getting little to no sleep some days, then other days getting way too much sleep, and this article described exactly how i felt after waking up in those time periods i feel utterly terrible. Also i did notice when i sleep more i tend to gain more weight, because all i’m doing is eating and sleeping, this correlates to what a lot of studies i’ve read linking obesity to people out of work because they are just sitting at home
I’ve always wondered that!!! I figured it was just my body still being sleepy because it was sleeping for so long but its very interesting that theres an actual scientific reason for it.
I’ve always wondered that!!! I figured it was just my body still being sleepy because it was sleeping for so long but its very interesting that theres an actual scientific reason for it.
Actually your blog proves my own experience: sometimes I feel headache or simply not myself when getting up from long sleep hours. During some research, I find that there are several drawbacks of oversleeping. One of them is the risk of depression. In a 2014 study of adult twins, researchers found that long sleep duration increased a person’s risk of depression symptoms. The study participants who slept between seven and nine hours a night had a 27 percent heritability of depressive symptoms, while those who slept nine hours or more had a 49 percent heritability. (source)
As stated in philosophy, never get too little or too much of anything. Science keeps helping us explain phenomena in our daily lives. As we talked about in class, the strongest evidence science can give is through conducting experiments, not listening to companies or people of eminence.
Actually your blog proves my own experience: sometimes I feel headache or simply not myself when getting up from long sleep hours. During some research, I find that there are several drawbacks of oversleeping. One of them is the risk of depression. In a 2014 study of adult twins, researchers found that long sleep duration increased a person’s risk of depression symptoms. The study participants who slept between seven and nine hours a night had a 27 percent heritability of depressive symptoms, while those who slept nine hours or more had a 49 percent heritability. (source)
As stated in philosophy, never get too little or too much of anything. Science keeps helping us explain phenomena in our daily lives. As we talked about in class, the strongest evidence science can give is through conducting experiments, not listening to companies or people of eminence.
Wow!!! Interesting blog. Ever since high school my friends and I were wondering why those friends who says they are too tired to do anything and all they need is sleep are the same group of people who sleeps most. Till now I finally figured out the scientific reason for this. Great work and convincing resources. Nice.