Sleep!!

Sometimes complete darkness/silence is not conducive to re**edited**l sleep.  Something as quiet as a white noise machine could help.  

Hrm, I'm not sure what it edited out, and now I can't remember what word that was supposed to be.

Smoke.

I'm not sure I can buy the whole "oversleeping" thing.  I've just never understood it.  Your body should know how much sleep it needs, and it should wake up when it's had enough, not keep on resting.  As amazing as the body is, it should have some sort of internal clock that tells it when it's had enough rest.

I can relate, my sleep is just all kinds of messed up.

usafpilot07 wrote: Hrm, I'm not sure what it edited out, and now I can't remember what word that was supposed to be.

Re**edited**l?

Haha.  It's "rest ful" due to the four letters in the middle of the word that are an acronym for "shut the <heck> up".


Edited by Hysteria - 11 April 2010 at 9:24pm

FROG MAN wrote: is music no good? It needs to be white noise?Also, could I be over sleeping? Its kind of counter intuitive, but from what i read online, 6-7 hours of sleep is the norm, could getting 8-9 be to much?

As far as noise, I think that's to each their own. I can't fall asleep with a TV or radio playing. I bought an air filter to provide a constant white noise to help me sleep, and it helps with dust too, I guess.

Also, not an expert, but I think the proper amount of sleep depends on the person. I was a 6-7 hr sleeper, but I think some people may need more, like 8-9.

I have never been able to fall asleep while music is playing. I always end up lipping the words.

ParielIsBack wrote: LOL Tical. I love falling asleep to my roommates' snoring. /sarcasm

Oh god, my roommate this semester snores like you wouldn't believe. It sounds like bears and pigs fighting some epic battle on the other side of the room. I can usually sleep through anything but when he falls asleep on his back it gets challenging.

As for the OP, I know how that feels. Sometimes I sleep for 6 hours and wake up feeling good and feel like crap after sleeping for 10 hours and other times it's the other way around. I have a very irregular sleep schedule so sometimes I feel like crap no matter how much sleep I get. I haven't quite been able to pin it on any one thing but I suspect just having a regular sleep pattern would make things much better. I have also heard that anything out of the range of 6-8 hours of sleep will usually leave you feeling tired but I'm not sure I believe it as I've had different results at times. Like a few other people have said, your body probably knows how much sleep it needs for the most part. I generally only set an alarm when I need to make sure I'm awake at a certain time but otherwise I just sleep until I feel like getting up. I have noticed that on days when there's not much to do or I have to sit around for long periods of time and I'm mostly inactive I feel very tired even if I got a lot of sleep. But then if I started doing something I'd perk up almost instantly and would feel perfectly fine. It sounds like you're fairly active but there must be certain times when not much is going on. Is it then that you feel crummy or is it constantly? If you're getting a decent amount of sleep and you have a regular sleep schedule yet you still feel tired regardless of how active you are then maybe you should talk to your doctor about it. You could be sick and not realize it.

Just a thought, but when you say you eat very healthy each day, what does your average day's worth of food look like?