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Is it possible to have too much sleep?
Indeed it is and sleeping too long can make us as tired and lethargic as having too little. If you wake up exhausted after sleeping for eight hours or longer, more sleep is not what you need.
Why do you feel so fatigued after all that sleep?
Too much sleep can weaken your sleep system. Your body is not awake for long enough to absorb enough sunlight, get enough exercise or partake of enough tiring activities.
Your body temperature takes a long time to climb to normal in the morning making you very drowsy for several hours after waking. In fact you body temperature might not climb to its peak at all, so you might feel lethargic all day. This is because excess melatonin that has been released by keeping your eyes shut for a long time does not dissipate swiftly leaving you feeling drowsy and drained of energy.
Too much sleep can actually weaken your immune system leading to lowered resistance to colds, flu or worse.
So what's to be done?
A superior quality of sleep is what's needed rather than more sleep. Sleep needs to be optimised so that you can sleep a lot less and feel more energised and are actually healthier. Quite often we don't get enough deep sleep even when we are sleeping eight hours or more. Deep sleep is the most important type of sleep out body needs.
One swift way to feel more energised during the day is to do some exercise. This raises your body temperature and wakes up your whole body. Your lungs will fill with healthy oxygen. Get out into the sunlight if possible, this will strengthen the sleep system and you'll be creating better deeper sleep for yourself at night.
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Sleeping too much could be a sign of some other problems, so you might want to get that checked out.
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Yes, your body is not meant to rest a lot. You can get sick if you sleep too much which leads to you wanting to even sleep more.
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well…it can cause you to have headaches! As in anything else…just general depression type stuff, I think.
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bed sores