Table of contents:
- The cause of feeling tired after sleeping too long
- What will happen in the third, fourth, and fifth stages of sleep?
Everyone likes sleeping, right? Nothing is more perfect than creeping slowly into bed and sleeping to your heart's content after a long day at work. Lack of sleep can cause various health problems or problems. But what if the opposite happens, and you sleep too long? What happens if you sleep longer than you should? The answer is that you will actually feel tired. Why? Check out the reviews.
The cause of feeling tired after sleeping too long
Sleep is a very important activity to help you create and collect memories, maintain your immune system, and keep you energized while awake. On the weekends, most of you will definitely plan to sleep longer to "make up" for tiredness.
According to sleep health expert Michael Breus, the human need for sleep is 7.5 hours a day. While you are sleeping, you will go through five stages with stages 1-4 with periods of REM sleep (rapid eye movement) between each stage and each stage has a duration of 90 minutes. Sleeping too long, which causes you to feel tired, is related to the stages of sleep.
Stage one or what is commonly known as light sleep. At this stage you are swaying from sleep and awake so that it is easy to wake up. It is at this stage that your eyes move very slowly and your muscles begin to relax.
Many people experience sudden muscle contractions, called hypnic myoclonia, which feel like a falling sensation. If you wake up from sleep stage one, you will probably remember fragmented visuals.
In the second stage, you will begin to sleep. The average adult spends the night sleeping at this stage. In this second stage, breath and heart rate begin to regulate, eye movements stop, body temperature decreases, and enters sleep. Brain waves also become slow.
What will happen in the third, fourth, and fifth stages of sleep?
Stages three to four, or what is commonly known as deep sleep, are restorative stages of sleep in which energy is restored and tissues and cells are repaired and grown.
In this stage of sleep your blood pressure drops, your breath slows down, your eyes stop moving and your muscles relax. In stage three, the brain waves become very slow, which are also called delta waves. In stage four, your brain only produces delta waves.
Stage five or often referred to as REM stage, will occur in the first 70-90 minutes after you fall asleep, and repeats again every 90 minutes at each stage. This is the period when you dream.
When you intend to extend your sleep hours to get more sleep, then you will repeat the sleep cycle to return to the first stage. If this happens, you are very likely to wake up between stages two, three, four or when you are already in the REM stage.
Waking up when you are in a deeper stage of sleep or even the REM stage does not actually make your body feel better, but on the contrary you feel your body tired. How, do you want to wake up now or sleep a little longer?
