i heard that as long as u in bed with closed eyes but not sleeping (coz u cant sleep or something) it is regarded as u r sleeping. so if u went to bed at 12 and stayed 2 hours awake then slept and woke up at 6, does that mean u slept 6 hours ???
204414
No. When you're really sleeping, your brain activity changes. These changes can be detected on an EKG, so they're for real. REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, is a very important stage of sleep (when you dream you're in REM sleep). Studies have shown that without it people have difficulties learning and functioning mentally throughout the next day.
332721
I just finished my 2nd semester of law school, and I am also sleeping in that much since last week. I assume that it is our body telling us that it is catching up on the sleep that we deprived it of for so many months. There has been research done on that; they refer to it as a sleep bank. So, as long as you are not emotionally unstable, there is nothing wrong with relaxing your body and busy mind with sleep. As you know, once school kicks in again, we will be sleep deprived again. Enjoy! :o)
473165
if you're falling asleep at 5am and waking up at 6 or 7 then yes, it's insomnia.  I know because I have it. BUT if you're falling asleep at 5am and getting a normal amount of sleep then your sleep pattern is messed up.  You'll have to force yourself to get up around 8am and you'll fall asleep earlier that night.
534899
No, whether you oversleep or undersleep, it doesn't change the next days sleep. You should get different amounts of sleep at different stages in your life but as a rule of thumb, get your 6-8 hours....whether or not you over/underslept the night prior.
295882
Hello.  Sleeping from 8am to 6pm means you are sleeping a good number of hours, the only aspect that could be considered as negative would be that your falling asleep at 8am, and not earlier.\n\nI have experienced this before, often during the holidays and I could have sworn I would never escape it, but I did.  I believe that this is mostly a bad cycle that is difficult to get out of.  \n\nI find the best solution is to break the cycle by force.  I would force myself to wake up at the hour I wish to wake up at (10am for example) and even if I had slept only 2 hours I would wake up and get out of bed.  Having slept so little it will be easier to fall asleep earlier the next night, and when you wake up the next morning, you will have slept several hours and should feel more rested.\n\nIts also worth noting that sleeping 10 hours during the day does not have the same rest and recovery effect on your mind and body as does sleeping during night hours.  So while it is difficult, it is worth trying to make the effort to get your body used to sleeping 'normal' hours even if it's difficult at first and takes a couple of sleepless nights to achieve.\n\nRight now I don't have this problem because my job requires me to wake up at 6am so I have had no choice but to get my body used to sleeping at 11pm (even though it was not easy at first).  Nonetheless when I'm on holiday, I automatically start falling asleep later and waking up later, and when the holidays end I have to adapt quickly.\n\nGood luck!
507373
Because having 13 hours of alseep, can be worse than having 7, depending on your age, you should hit exactly the amount of sleep you need, and you will wake up just fine, like one time i fell alseep at 3 o clock in the afternoon, woke up at about 11:30, and i was wide awake, becuase I convieniently hit the time to wake up, but then i fell back asleep to about 7, and i felt horrible, like I stayed up 10 days in a row, so try to time your sleep perfectly there is an algebraic question somewhere on the internet, but if your young, about 9 hours. if your a bit older 8, and if your very old, about 6 and a half, try to find it its like S=a*2.6937 dont ask, but its sometheing very simaler to that, i couldnt find it :&#92;
487820
There will be times in your life when you will need 12 hours and it's no big thing.  Your body tells you when you need sleep, and if it's at all possible (like not at work or driving, etc.) then listen to your body.  When you sleep your body rebuilds itself.  Just don't over-do it night after night with that much sleep.  Normal needed is about 8 hours a night.  But you can play catch-up sometimes.
369614
Your body's natural rythm causes it to expect ro be already in bed and asleep long before 2:30 AM, and out of bed and active long before noon the next day.\n\nSleeping 12 and 13 hours a day isnt any better than sleeping 3 or 4 hours a day.  If undersleeping, you remain legitimately tired.  With oversleep, you get groggy, dopey and thick headed, and have a propensity to go right back to sleep (if alllowed) and make matters even more screwed up.\n\nI used to have your problem, and solved it, at least partially, by going to bed by 10:00 PM and getting myself up at 5:30 AM.\n\nSometimes less IS more.\n\nAlso sleeping too much can be a symptom of depression, so you might ask you doctor about it...
50718
11:45 here in NY and I don't go to bed. I stay up all night answering yahoo answers questions. (a few minutes passed by sine you posted your question.) Oops, now it's 11:46! Time flies!!!
238153
THis is kinda funny.\n\nyour question suggest that the norm is that two people would fall asleep at the same time, always is the norm.\n\nIn fact the question should be why do you always notice that the others are asleep before you sleep...\n\nor why do they prented to sleep until you are asleep and then run to the fridge for some late night pie...see thats better.\n\nten points please.
665107
Don't you have to be anywhere? :) If you don't need to be at work or school, make a commitment and volunteer somewhere that will force you to be somewhere at a certain time.  I love to sleep in, and my big indulgence, treat, special thing is reading  magazines, or watching my DVR'd shows (ultimate couch potato) but on days when I don't work, I won't allow myself to do those things unless I get up at a reasonable time and accomplish X amount of things. Then I reward myself with my Vanity Fair, or People Magazine or "Rescue Me", "Boston Legal" etc.  But my next question is: are you really lazy or are you really tired? Because I think a lot of times people NEED their sleep, but don't take it because they think it appears lazy. I need 8 hours a night, and I never get it, so when I have a day off I have to make up for 5 days of 6 hour sleep.
353576
I have the same problem... I can fall alseep once 7am comes around but never at night, I feel like night time wake something up inside of me.  I took Ambien for 10 days and it only worked like 7 out of the ten but i stopped because i didnt want to become relient on them.  Anywho what works for me but sucks at the same time is just staying up... Meaning if you normally go to bed say at 7am and wake at 2 pm... dont do it and just stay up till the next night, without any naps.  I find this helps me sometimes and if i dont get tired i will stay up even longer till the next night to sleep and if you keep doing this then your body will adjust.  Staying up just for 1 night can make your body clock out of wack... thats what usually happens when i do that. :)
634399
First of all, 10 hours a day is a bit much in the first place.  Average human beings require 8-9 hours per night, and many health professionals warn against less than 7, so I would NOT recommend you sleeping just 6!  However, many, many people sleep 6 hours or even less, despite the dangerous health problems they risk, so it depends on your motives: what could possibly warrant starving yourself of sleep?
649819
Life is tough! And then you can´t go back to sleep again! I made an experiment, I didn´t set my alarm clock and I still woke up 30 mins before I had to! \nIt means you are not lazy and take whatever you have to do seriously.
567912
If you feel as if you are fully functional on that amount of sleep then there should be no issue. There are no health risks to adjusting when you sleep, it's the amount of hours you sleep.\n\nThere are people who work night shifts and stay up all night and sleep all day, and as long as they get their 7 to 9 hours of sleep they're fine. \n\nThere are also people who can operate just fine on 4-6 hours of sleep, just the same as we function on our 7-9.
88374
I've been plauged with insomnia since as far back as I can recall. My mom always had problems getting me up for school in the morning, mainly b/c I didn't get much sleep at night. I've been a night owl ever since. I went through a time where I did speed/meth to stay up all night so I didn't have to worry about fighting to fall asleep. that was the first sign for me, I was always fighting to go to sleep. My mind just didn't seem to want to shut off. so, I had read never to stay in bed when you can't sleep after about 15 minutes....to do something relaxing, like read, or take a bath, or watch tv. but don't stay in bed. your not supposed to associate your bed with anything else but sleep. nothing helped me, even did a sleep study. I only slept 4 hours so they could only come to the conclusion that I had insomnia....gee, ya think!! well, I can only sleep with the help of prescribed meds now. good luck!!
644713
Don't worry about the number of hours you're sleeping; think about how you feel in the morning, as well as how easily you get tired as the day goes on.  If you're comfortable with your level of energy, then that's the right amount of sleep for you.  And of course, it can change depending on how physically & mentally active you are.  In addition, the average person needs less sleep as they get older.