Hypersomnia help

Lately I've been sleeping around 12+ hours a day, and I sleep through my two alarms and it's not good. :/ If I had a job right now, I could as well be fired for sleeping in like this if I had an early morning shift.

Last night, I went to bed at midnight, and woke up at 1pm the next day. That's well past the 12 hour mark of sleeping. When I wake up, I still feel extremely tired like I haven't slept enough. I eat well with a balanced diet and I jog and exercise for 2 hrs every afternoon so I don't understand why I'm sleeping this much.

I'm making a thread on this because it's really starting to piss me off. If it gets worse I might have to see a doctor. At this rate, I might as well become goddamn sleeping beauty.

I really want to wake up early again, but apparently my body just doesn't agree with it.




Any ideas or thoughts or anything to help improve this situation?

As soon as my summer vacation started, I began sleeping in as much as possible. The first few free days I had, I would wake up at 1:00 PM, sometimes 2:00PM, after going to bed around 1 or 2:00 in the morning. Shortly after this started, I would wake up from a 12-hour sleep and find myself STILL tired. This continued, and I couldn't understand why. My parents then let me know that there actually is such thing as oversleeping, (It was news to me.)

Here's a Google-snatched article on the matter, in which you should find your particular case a little ways down.

The point is, when I felt tired after 12 hour sleeps, I realized that they couldn't be good for me. And so now I try to make sure I obtain between 8 and 10 hours a night, aiming for the prime amount of 9 hours. (Not scientifically prime, mind you, but 9 seems like a good number for me personally).

The best advice I can give you is to aim for a specific lower number via alarms. I suppose you should also use alarms even on days when you have no plans. If it doesn't work at first, I wouldn't worry, because your body just might need to adjust to this somewhat new sleep schedule. After a while, it could very well sort itself out.

Bear in mind, I'm not a doctor. I hope this helped anyway.

This is probably dumb, but have you tried drinking a huge glass of water right before you sleep? Unless you have a magical bladder of steel, the urge to pee might be enough to wake you up after a more reasonable amount of sleep.

If it continues, though, you should probably pop to a doctor, just to make sure there's no issues. From memory, I think iron deficiency can cause you to be more tired, so it could even be something as simple as that.

In my experience, AM hours are a hell of a lot less effective than PM hours. To explain: sleeping from 10PM-8AM seems to be better for me than, say, 1AM-11AM (I have lie-in time pouring out of my ass, right now, I've had time to experiment.) perhaps an earlier to bed-earlier to rise system would be better for you?


Edit: worst comes to worst, buy an industrial-strength alarm clock. Something that makes a smoke detector caliber noise. It won't be fun, but it'll get you up.

If even that doesn't work, there may be a different problem. Some people become oblivious to ALL things when they're asleep (it's a condition I can't name), sorta like the deepest sleep you can imagine. In this case, I believe there may be prescription electrocution alarm clocks, although I MAY have made those up.

Originally Posted by ManofRedHelms

The best advice I can give you is to aim for a specific lower number via alarms. I suppose you should also use alarms even on days when you have no plans. If it doesn't work at first, I wouldn't worry, because your body just might need to adjust to this somewhat new sleep schedule. After a while, it could very well sort itself out.

Bear in mind, I'm not a doctor. I hope this helped anyway.

It's cool <3 Thanks for your post!

Even if I end up falling asleep at let's say... 9pm, I still somehow wake up at 11pm/12pm the next day. So sleeping earlier doesn't really seem to make some sort of effect. I've been trying it for years.

Originally Posted by Panique

This is probably dumb, but have you tried drinking a huge glass of water right before you sleep? Unless you have a magical bladder of steel, the urge to pee might be enough to wake you up after a more reasonable amount of sleep.

Wow... I never thought of that! I guess I could give it a try tonight and see what happens.

If it continues, though, you should probably pop to a doctor, just to make sure there's no issues. From memory, I think iron deficiency can cause you to be more tired, so it could even be something as simple as that.

I might have to see a doctor soon about it. The last time I saw one, I did have iron problems, but this was years ago and the issue was sorted out. So hmm... Guess I'll see.

Originally Posted by Mister Blak

In my experience, AM hours are a hell of a lot less effective than PM hours. To explain: sleeping from 10PM-8AM seems to be better for me than, say, 1AM-11AM (I have lie-in time pouring out of my ass, right now, I've had time to experiment.) perhaps an earlier to bed-earlier to rise system would be better for you?

Like I said above, sleeping earlier just comes up with the same results. It's worse because I sleep in more if I sleep earlier.

Edit: worst comes to worst, buy an industrial-strength alarm clock. Something that makes a smoke detector caliber noise. It won't be fun, but it'll get you up.

I should hire a personal jet just to sonic-boom past my window every morning. It could work, but all the glass and roof and everything would just shatter. I need something loud man. :/

If even that doesn't work, there may be a different problem. Some people become oblivious to ALL things when they're asleep (it's a condition I can't name), sorta like the deepest sleep you can imagine. In this case, I believe there may be prescription electrocution alarm clocks, although I MAY have made those up.

I might have to look into that if everything else fails and I end up seeing a doctor. From what I know, I sleep like a damn log and noises rarely wake me up, unless it's a car going through the front door or something. I sleep through dogs barking and people knocking on my door everyday.

Sleeping too much can IMO be a sign that you're very worn out mentally (and maybe physically) from something. The more exhausted you are the more time you are bound to need to recover, I guess? So again, maybe something (or several things) is draining your energy a lot when you're awake.
I know for sure that when I've had really exhausting/stressful days, I've slept a lot.

Also I have heard that if you miss hours of sleep, your body tries to catch up on those hours the next time(s) you sleep. So it could be a sign that you are catching up with lost sleep. Basically, lost hours of sleep could be piling up on you.

Hope this helps,
Will

Originally Posted by WillZ4E

Sleeping too much can IMO be a sign that you're very worn out mentally (and maybe physically) from something. The more exhausted you are the more time you are bound to need to recover, I guess? So again, maybe something (or several things) is draining your energy a lot when you're awake.
I know for sure that when I've had really exhausting/stressful days, I've slept a lot.

Also I have heard that if you miss hours of sleep, your body tries to catch up on those hours the next time(s) you sleep. So it could be a sign that you are catching up with lost sleep.

Hope this helps,
Will

I think my hobby/profession is what is causing me tremendous mental stress on a daily basis (art and illustration). It's not something I can really put down, so that could be a major problem. Even when I take breaks, I'm still thinking about it.

I know for sure that my body is not trying to catch up on sleep, because I have been sleeping around 10+ hrs a day occasionally, which is just odd.

Thanks for the post. (:

My pleasure! Atleast you are actually sleeping plenty of hours, instead of sleeping too little which if ya ask me is worse.