More sleep more tired?

Laney88

Laney88

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Anyone else feel like the more sleep they get the more tired they feel when waking up and throughout the day?

I just started a fulltime job just before Christmas so have been getting used to waking up around 7:30am. I usually get to sleep anywhere between 1am and 2:30am coz im in that routine and im always doing something never really needed a lot of sleep throught my life.
Anyhow this last week ive been getting really tired falling asleep on the bus etc which p***** me off lol so last night thought i would try going to bed earlier so i was in bed and actually got to sleep before 12am :D or so i thought.

I got up abit better i think but gees im even more tired today than i have been this week :O keep nodding off at my desk haha. I just know im going to miss my stop on the way home because il be asleep for sure :P

Ive always felt that more sleep makes me more tired/groggy.

Anybody else the same?
 
Yep, change of pace and sleeping patterns won't help. You need to find an amount of time which is right for you. I am good on 6-7 hours, at the moment I'm working part-time and the student-bum lifestyle hasn't dissapeared from me yet so I'm sometimes getting 8+ hours of sleep and often feel rough throughout the whole day.

The usual good advice is to force yourself to go to bed and get up at the same time every day, no matter how you feel, eventually you will get used to it and you'll feel better. Drinking water, eating well and exercise will also help :D
 
you sleep in cycles of deep sleep, if you wake up during one of these (usually because of your alarm) you'll feel a lot more tired.
 
I need 10 hours of sleep a night (I'm 21). No idea why I need that much, but i've always slept a lot. Even on a 8 or 9 hour sleep cycle, after a week I will need to sleep for about 12 hours one night to catch up. I'm not overweight, I eat healthily and I play hockey for a 2nd team club training during the week.
So I try to get in bed for 10-11pm, and wake up about 8-9am. When I get a job, I will have to go to bed at 9am...............................................................:(
 
Yeah im sure il get used to it and im not bitching about my job as im glad to be up and out and into a routine :)

I am trying to get myself to do exercise before bed so im abit more tired out (thats how i managed it last night).

Just duno wether to stay up like normal and be tired or to try get more sleep and be more tired while at work lol.
 
Naamiko_O said:
I need 10 hours of sleep a night (I'm 21). No idea why I need that much, but i've always slept a lot. Even on a 8 or 9 hour sleep cycle, after a week I will need to sleep for about 12 hours one night to catch up. I'm not overweight, I eat healthily and I play hockey for a 2nd team club training during the week.
So I try to get in bed for 10-11pm, and wake up about 8-9am. When I get a job, I will have to go to bed at 9am...............................................................:(
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try considerably less, 6 or 7 hours, the usual cycle of deep sleep is around 3 hours
 
If i'm feeling tired during the day, i do my best to keep myself going until later on, like i might eat a nutritional bar or something that has oats in for example for the slow release of energy, anything healthy that can keep me going.
 
Laney88 said:
Yeah im sure il get used to it and im not bitching about my job as im glad to be up and out and into a routine :)

I am trying to get myself to do exercise before bed so im abit more tired out (thats how i managed it last night).

Just duno wether to stay up like normal and be tired or to try get more sleep and be more tired while at work lol.
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I would go for the go to bed earlier and get more sleep! Being more tired at work not only might be noticed by your boss, and be detremental for you but you don't want to fall asleep on the bus and wake up with your wallet gone.
I normally read a few pages of a book before I go to sleep, the repitition of this coupled with it's relaxing and I'm sitting in bed normally gets me ready to nod off to dream land. Which coincidently leads me to the greatest website ever, after this one about a sleep talking man :D

http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/

Abraham said:
try considerably less, 6 or 7 hours, the usual cycle of deep sleep is around 3 hours
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I always thought that you were meant to get 8 hours of sleep a night minimum?
 
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Naamiko_O said:
I always thought that you were meant to get 8 hours of sleep a night minimum?
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New research from the University of California in San Diego has found that sleeping more than eight hours a night could shorten your lifespan.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5961,370347,00.html

7 is the average amount of sleep required, it is different for different people, but the key to not being tired when you wake up is timing your sleep cycle properly, I usually wake up wide awake half an hour or so before my alarm, and usually make the mistake of settling back down, if I do get up then I'm absolutely fine.
 
Naamiko_O said:
I'll get 7 hours sleep tonight and I'll see how I get on and post back.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Laney88 :(
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NP :P

I might go for the 3-4 hours sleep coz thats usually what id have after a night out and im usually fine so maybe thats the ammount of sleep i need :P

Plus i can sleep when im dead.
 
As someone who sometimes exercises regularly but on and off, (not exercised for the last 6 months will start up again when the missus flies back to Oz soon).

Exercising does give you more energy. I find you sleep/rest better at night, so u feel more rested when you wake up. When I've got home after work before, feeling tired, managed get myself to do some exercise, hot shower after you feel great.
 
I am definately more tired if I sleep for too long, during the week it's bed at 12 and up at 6. Weekends is more bed at 2 up at 9 latest.

Somedays I do just sleep like a baby, lazy days mmmmm
 
Dkore-DeX said:
I am definately more tired if I sleep for too long, during the week it's bed at 12 and up at 6. Weekends is more bed at 2 up at 9 latest.

Somedays I do just sleep like a baby, lazy days mmmmm
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I rarely find myself unable to go back to sleep if I actually want to, if the gf is sleeping in I'll tend to as well even if I'm not tired.
 
I need a full 8 hours or I start to no during the day.

What I find though, if I go to bed too much earlier than my normal time I don't sleep properly or I wake up in the middle of the night and I end up being more tired :p
 
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