I have a question about sleep.?

Question

When you don't have much sleep one day, and you try to make it up the next day, why do you feel awful once you get the extra sleep?

Answer 1

Your body is working on repairing itself while you sleep. It has to work extra hard when you are sleeping after not sleeping so you wear yourself out even more.

Answer 2

you can't "make up" for lost sleep..

the problem you're probably having is how MUCH sleep you're getting. During the sleep cycle, a person generally should get 7-8 hours a night (it varies from person to person). if you get less than 7-8 hours, the full sleep cycle didn't have time to finish and you wake up feeling excessively tired. when you go OVER that amount, the sleep cycle begins all over again and you wake up feeling some times moody, angry, or sad because of this. It happens a lot to people who take naps during the day as well because going over the reccomended amount of sleep will alter some chemicals in your brain and will cause some people to actually feel worse than before they went to sleep. if you only get four hours of sleep one night and decide to "make up" for lost sleep the next, it's impossible. go with 7-8 hours a night and see when you feel the best. are you less tired in the morning after 7? or does 8 hours work well for you? it's based on an individual basis and changes from person to person. but my reccomendation is that if you don't get enough sleep one night, try taking a ten to fifteen minute nap. if you sleep for more than an hour, you're messing with your brain chemicals. but other than that, just get more sleep but realize that you can't 'make up' for lost hours

Answer 3

" Release Date: March 22, 2004

TOO MUCH SLEEP CAN LEAD
TO RESTLESS NIGHTS

By Becky Ham, Science Writer
Health Behavior News Service
Don’t hit the snooze alarm too many times: Too many hours in bed can cause as many sleep problems as too few, according to a new study.

“Long” sleepers who slumber more than eight hours a night and “short” sleepers who get fewer than seven hours of shuteye both report more sleep complaints than people who sleep in the “just right” zone of seven to eight hours, say Michael A. Grandner, B.A., and Daniel F. Kripke, M.D., of the University of California, San Diego. Their study appears in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

“Although it is unclear why long and short sleepers should have similar types of sleep complaints, these data challenge the assumption that more than seven or eight hours of sleep is associated with increased health and well-being,” Grandner says.

Scientists know a lot more about problems associated with lack of sleep than they know about too much sleep, although some studies have shown a correlation between too much sleep and an increased risk of death in certain groups of people, according to Grandner and Kripke.

To find out if long sleepers have as many sleep complaints as the sleep-deprived, the researchers used data from nearly 100 adults interviewed in the National Sleep Foundation’s 2001 Sleep in America Poll. The participants were asked how many hours they slept on a typical workday, not including naps, and whether they had any complaints about the quality of their sleep and sleep’s effect on their daily activities.

Long sleepers reported more problems with falling asleep, waking up during the night, awaking too early, feeling “unrefreshed” upon waking up, and feeling sleepy during the day than those who slept seven or eight hours, the researchers found.

Sleep complaints were more common in both long and short sleepers than in those who got seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Women were more apt to be long sleepers than men were.

The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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Answer 4

It will get to the point that you'll get your normal hours of sleep after awhile

Answer 5

you have to try to sleep to same every day

Answer 6

you cant make up sleep. To much sleep makes you feel worse.Also when you lose sleep it effects your immune system

Answer 7

prolly becuz u havnt slept in a while and your body wasnt used to it yet..........