Me being the type of person who sleeps until 1 pm if not bothered, has me questioning my habits. Does oversleeping hurt you, and at what point is it considered to much sleep? Personally i can sleep for almost 11 hours some days when my schedule allows it. How is this affecting my body?
First off, after researching this topic i found that the amount of sleep is completely dependent upon the individual. If you are a highly active person you can sleep longer than someone who is not. Oversleeping is actually a medical disorder called hypersomnia. Oversleeping has many side effects that most people don’t know. It can cause depression, anxiety, obesity and things like heart pain and headaches. With all these side effects why isn’t it why isn’t it more known that oversleeping is bad? Small percentages less that a quarter percent of oversleeping people are effected by at least one of these things. it is said that up 9 hours or above is considered too much sleep for most people. To truly find out if this hypothesis are correct we should conduct and experiment. Find people like myself who tend to sleep for more than 9 hours. Have these people take a survey on if they are experiencing any of these symptoms. Also, you should find people who don’t over sleep and have them oversleep. If these people begin to experience any of the said side effects of their new sleeping habits you could infer that it was the sleeping that caused it. This experiment would not prove the hypothesis, but it would agree with the hypothesis.
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/physical-side-effects-oversleeping?page=2
This blog post is extremely relevant to me in that I love to sleep in late especially on the weekend and if I have a choice of whether or not to take an early or late class I will always go with the later one. I was not aware of all of the possible side effects of oversleeping and now that I am aware, I will definitely be more careful about sleeping too much on a given night. One thing that would help this blog tremendously would be finding some sources that show experimental studies done on college students because that is very relevant to us. Great choice of topic!
I personally relate to this article because I can take up to 5 hour naps, and then sleep until noon the next day as well. Obviously, this doesn’t happen ever in college, but when I was in high school, this happened often on the weekends. Now that I am here, not getting much sleep, I have noticed that I physically am tired and feel worse, but I think that because I am so busy and on the go, I feel less tired than I would if I was just sitting at home.