Why Does Sleeping In Just Make Me More Tired?

[Tengen]

I had created a thread about energy and motivation a while ago, and lots of interesting lines of thought were shared.

Turns out maybe some of us have been sleeping in too often.

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-up-with-that-why-does-sleeping-in-just-make-me-more-tired/

We’ve all been there: It’s been a long week at work, so Friday night, you reward yourself by going to bed early and sleeping in. But when you wake up the next morning (or afternoon), light scathes your eyes, and your limbs feel like they’re filled with sand. Your brain is still lying down and you even have faint headache. If too little sleep is a problem, then why is extra sleep a terrible solution?

Oversleeping feels so much like a hangover that scientists call it sleep drunkenness. But, unlike the brute force neurological damage caused by alcohol, your misguided attempt to stock up on rest makes you feel sluggish by confusing the part of your brain that controls your body’s daily cycle.

Your internal rhythms are set by your circadian pacemaker, a group of cells clustered in the hypothalamus, a primitive little part of the brain that also controls hunger, thirst, and sweat. Primarily triggered by light signals from your eye, the pacemaker figures out when it’s morning and sends out chemical messages keeping the rest of the cells in your body on the same clock.

Scientists believe that the pacemaker evolved to tell the cells in our bodies how to regulate their energy on a daily basis. When you sleep too much, you’re throwing off that biological clock, and it starts telling the cells a different story than what they’re actually experiencing, inducing a sense of fatigue. You might be crawling out of bed at 11am, but your cells started using their energy cycle at seven. This is similar to how jet lag works.

 

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[Kyle Tully]

I can't sleep in.

7am is about as late as I can get.

I blame always getting up at 6am to watch Astroboy when I was a kid.

Read The Power of Full Engagement by Tony Schwartz if you haven't already. It will help with your energy and motivation issues.

 

[MrShah]

Thanks for the tip Kyle. My next book to-read.

I can't sleep in.

7am is about as late as I can get.

I blame always getting up at 6am to watch Astroboy when I was a kid.

Read The Power of Full Engagement by Tony Schwartz if you haven't already. It will help with your energy and motivation issues.[/quo