Let's say you sleep for the exactly same amount of time in hours and minutes on two consecutive nights. For example, we'll pick 8 hours.
On the first night, you sleep 8 hours all the way through -without waking up in the middle of the night. On the second night, you also sleep 8 hours - but you wake up once in the middle of the night and stay awake for 15 minutes. You fall back asleep after the 15 minutes and then sleep 15 minutes later in the morning to equal the same 8 hours as the night before.
The question is: Will you feel just as good with the 15 minute sleep interruption as you will with the continuous sleep - provided you sleep the same amount of hours and minutes? Or will you feel better with the continuous sleep?
2007-02-14 06:20:38 · 5 answers · asked by Pre-law1971 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Continuous sleep is better, always. When sleep is interupted for any reason, I wake up feeling tired.
2007-02-14 06:24:06 · answer #1 · answered by James Dean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it all depends. If your 15 minute break at night was a natural wake up, your body will not be affected because your body was the one that woke YOU up, if it was an unnatural wake up call, such as a loud noise, then that can disturb your sleep and keep you tired the next day. normally sleep is the body's way of repairing itself, there are 4 stages of sleep and normally if your REM sleep [ rapid eye movement] is interrupted then you will feel tired tomorrow, that is normally when your body falls into a paralyzed sleep, waking up during this will force your body to jerk alert, causing tiredness in the morning. you cannot compensate the 15 minutes unless you fall into REM sleep again in the morning or before you woke up. hope that helps.
2007-02-14 06:39:18 · answer #2 · answered by aNna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you just wake up once it wont make a difference. continual sleep is generally better though because the brain and body really rests during REM sleep which occurs after one has been sleeping for some time.
2007-02-14 06:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the person, but I would say continuous, because your body doesn't have to get back to the cycle it was in before the wake-up. It also depends on what time of night the wake-up was. If it interrupted the deep-sleeping cycle, then it does more harm than between deep-sleep cycles.
2007-02-14 06:25:36 · answer #4 · answered by FlowerChild 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sleep doc says that 7x is the average for waking during sleep. Is this true?
2015-03-25 04:40:35 · answer #5 · answered by Elizabeth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋