Why is it when you sleep for 10-12 hours you end up more tired throughout the day than if you had 8 hours of sleep?
In: Biology
The short version is you don’t… or at least, not really. If you sleep 12 hours when you normally sleep 8 hours, there’s probably a reason. Typically, it’s because you either DIDN’T get your normal sleep, or are ill, or recently changed sleep schedules. Sleeping 10-12 hours is your body trying to play catchup and re-adjust, and it can’t really do that in a single day.
I doubt you’d actually feel better if you “only” had 8 hours sleep than if you had 10-12. Your head can get used to sleeping < 6 hours a night, but your body remembers the debt. As soon as you let your body begin to recover, your head will notice the change and become aware of what it was concealing from itself.
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