If you oversleep one night, is it okay to miss hours of sleep the next night?
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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.
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Haha I have exactly the same problem, I will be up all night and then I will sleep all day, but if I have to do something during the say and I don't get to sleep I will be up all the next night, I just can't seem to sleep during the night. crazy huh?
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Yes and no.  You can not build a "stockpile" of sleep.  However, your body can accumulate "sleep debt."  The amount of sleep each person needs varies.  In addition, how your body addresses it's sleep debt depends on the circumstances.\n\nLet's say, for example, you need 8 hours per night.  If you have zero sleep debt, you will not be able to sleep more than 8 hours.  But if you sleep for only 7 hours one night, you add 1 hour to your sleep debt.  If you do this Sunday through Thursday night, you will have 5 hours of sleep debt.\n\nThe catch is, most people can not relieve themselves of more than about an hour of sleep debt per night.  So, even if you sleep for 10 or 11 hours on Friday and Saturday nights, you would most likely not make up for your lack of sleep all week.  The quality of sleep diminishes with each sleep cycle, so those last couple of hours aren't nearly as effective as the first few.\n\nMost people are carrying around sleep debt.  In fact, it is healthy to have a small amount of sleep debt (say, 5-10 hours).  If you have too little, it is difficult to fall asleep at night.  If you have the right amount of sleep debt, you should not feel tired during the day but it should only take you 10-15 minutes to fall asleep at night.\n\nHowever, generally speaking, there is a cap to the amount of sleep debt you can accumulate.  If I remember correctly, it is at about 50 hours or so.  The average person is walking around with about 25 hours of sleep debt or so.  Many sleep specialists believe that a large portion of auto accidents have a root cause of lack of sleep, but it is difficult to accurately measure this.  50 hours of sleep debt has a similar impact to your ability to function as if you had just finished off a couple of beers.\n\nThere's an excellent book on the subject called "The Promise of Sleep"
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Yes . Then I made my routine well .I started waking up early then \nI found I slept next day clamly .Because as u wake up early ,u'll\nfeel tired at the right time .So plz check your routine . U may need to sacrifice one nights sleep & wake up early & after that ur routine will be fine .Thank u .Bye & Take Care.and 1 more thing \ndon't sleep in day time only if u need take 15 to 30 minutes rest after lunch .
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No, only if you are sick, then it's normal if you sleep all day and night, or at least nap all day. Even if you hadn't slept much recently, that's too long to be considered normal.\n\nIf it only happened once I wouldn't worry about it!
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There are alot!  Sleeping to much can effect your health in many ways.  Breaking your sleep up isn't good for your health either!
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Well, yes. But there are a lot of people that do it when they go out weekends. Try my work schedule. I work tue-thurs 8am-4pm and fri/sat from 11pm to 7am!\nI'm all messed up!! Seems you should be getting enough sleep though. Nine hours weekdays and ten hours on the weekend is pretty good! If thats a regular pattern bodies tend to adjust after while.
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no you'll be very groggy. you shouldn't take sleeping pills unless you can get a whole night's sleep
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going to sleep could result in you over sleeping if all you have is such a short amount of time to sleep  so i would say risk staying awaking. mommyblues
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Not usually, unless it is in the middle of the day. If it is nearing night, near your bedtime, late at night or whatever you should go to bed. It's just your body telling you it needs to reboot, so it would be best if you listened to it. You should sit yourself up on a  continous sleep system, going to bed at the same time and waking up at the same time, that way you will get the most out of your sleep. But anyways, i don't think it is a good thing to fight your sleep, unless like i said before it is in the middle of the day, because you may not want to take a nap cause it can mess up your sleep schedule.
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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!
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9 hours is actually a very healthy amount to sleep. If you can, why not? 6 hours is too little
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You may need to have a consistent sleeping schedule with the same amount of hours each night. Your body may be confused.
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Doubtful--btw, "night worker"  weren't you lookin to get some sleep?  Won't happen in front of the PC.  Yawn, stretch....
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its recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep a night hope this answers your question x
889753
yes you can but it sucks.........your brain re charges after 4 hours of sleep, the other 4 are for your body, but your body can function on a half charge, so if you sleep roughly 4 hours a night that's all you really need to keep from getting nerve disorders and shit like that witch will kill you, Ive heard that a person will die if they go more than 4 days straight with out sleeping. Also, I dint know how long they would go but I have heard the Nazi's would force Jewish prisoners to work until they died from exhaustion.  \n\nI myself have conditioned myself to the point that I could stay awake while driving after 4 and a half hours sleep each night for a week, but the tax it in poses on the body is not cool. After about a year and a half I became allergic to the sun, doc. said that it was because one of my origins was increasing the out put of some long named chemical that I cant pronounce or come close to spelling, all thanks to a lack of sleep. my doc. recommended at least 6 hours of sleep each night, I sleep 6-7 hours and stay healthy
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YOU WILL DO BETTER IF YOU SLEEP FOR AT LEAST 8 HOURS A NIGHT