Have you ever heard of getting to much sleep?

No I do not believe that we can get too much sleep because our body will only allow us to sleep as much as we need to. In your case I suspect that what has happened Jen is that your body clock has gone out of sync, because of the naps that you have been taking. In fact your body is not used to these naps and so cannot handle them when it says that you should be getting the sleep that you normally would most nights. If for example you generally get say 7 hours sleep most nights but you are napping for just an hour, there is a shortfall on what the body expects. In fact when you get up after that nap, your body and brain are thinking "what about the other 6 hours that I need". At one stage due to domestic problems with my ex-wife I did not sleep much and was suffering from mild depression. Of course I was always tired and when I saw the Doctor he told me that I had a "sleep debt". According to him this meant my body knew that it needed more rest/sleep but my brain was not allowing that to happen because of the depression. Does that make any sense to you? The other thing is that when I am away from home, driving trucks interstate I generally only get a maximum of 5 hours sleep at a time. However when I pull into the depot or where I have to unload or be reloaded, once the paper work has been checked and unloading or reloading commenced I will go to the drivers lounge. I often take that time to have a nap and I do the same when I take my scheduled breaks which might last from 15 minutes to an hour or so. Now when I am at home, i.e. not driving, I make sure that I stick to basically the same sleeping pattern. If I don't then when I go back to work my body clock is all out of kilter and I want to sleep when I should be driving. I do not and will not drive when I am tired because I enjoy living too much, so ensuring my body clock is "set right" is most important. So if I have to take a rest/sleep break when I should be driving, then it can upset my entire schedule and it takes a few days to get back into the routine once again.

Hi Jen, I've heard that too but I'm more inclined to think that maybe you have not been getting enough sleep prior to your days off. If that is the case, then your body is trying to catch up on the sleep it's been deprived of. If you have been putting in overtime at work and overtime at home, then just getting less than 8 hrs. of sleep at night for a while then relax and enjoy this time of recovery. Sometimes when you post a question like this, it's nice to give a lttle more back ground because then we are all guessing what might have happened. leenie

Hi there! Yeah. I have experienced that. There was a time when I sleep for twelve hours straight and when I woke up, I still feel tired and sleepy.

guess u could. i have never had that problem because i am not a good sleeper. five hours of sleep is alot for me at night. bf just wants u to be awake to entertain him. lol

ok i wish i could find out what too much sleep feel like. i know what to little sleep feel like. i'm not the kind who can just fall asleep through the day time. time it takes me to fall asleep i need to do something, stuipd adhd.. lol but i know a few who slept like two days straight

you know, that's one of my problems that i don't know how to solve. i always have too much sleep that makes my body to easily get tired and have uneasiness. i don't know what to because even if i tried to wake up after 8 hrs, my body feels weak and sleepy as if telling me to sleep more. i guess, its a malpractice on my side because when i was young, i tend to sleep longer than usual. i just hope there's someone who can give some advice on how to change the bad practices that i have.

Well, I always experience this. Sometimes I sleep too much until I feel really tired when I wake up, especially during afternoon time. Sometimes, I do take more than 2 hour nap, so when I wake up, I feel really tired.

Yes, getting too much can be as bad as not getting enough. I try to stay at 8 hours because that just works right for me. I have known people who only sleep like 5 and that does not work for me lol

I have done that, and the only cure is more sleep....

Sleep can be an escape and signal depression or other disorder but for you I would guess you are just catching up on lost sleep, so enjoy.

I heard that to, but according to my boyfriend you can never get enough sleep. He sleeps at night gets up about 4am goes back to sleep about 6am and then takes a nap during the day. That's just to much sleeping for me.

Yes, I'd to much sleep for so many time. It feel tired and have no energy, lazy to do anything. And some time you feel dizzy. It is not a good experiences, but it will happened from time to time. BR.b

a empty mind in rest n relax plus a good meals makes one to sleep for long hours this happens rear dear