Causes of oversleeping?

Self | 20 July 2007 | tlj18

[tlj18]

Well, though, I must admit that I am more of a night person than a morning person. In the morning, I may have faster reaction times, but in the evening, I can think much clearer.

[Little Bill]

Do you work in the Power trades?

[GovernmentShrinker]

True, although external cues (daylight, temperature changes, birds making noise, etc.) are a natural part of our sleep/wake cycle system, so I don’t know that the results one gets when they’re removed provide any reliable information about what amount of sleep is “natural”. And of course, at the turn of the century, the vast majority of people were still spending most of their day engaged in fairly vigorous manual labor of one sort of another, and quite possible needed more sleep than if they’d been leading a less physically demanding life.

One thing that is certainly natural is to sleep more in the winter (i.e. when nights are longer), and less in the summer. That is a factor that’s been pretty much wiped out by the combination of convenient electric lighting everywhere, and work and school schedules which are fixed year-round.

[tlj18]

Power trades?

[Walkingfeather]

Scared the crap out of my wife who had never seen me curl up into a fetal position because of pain...

[Lijahsbubbe]

If you work your a@@ off for about ten hours a day this problem will subside.

[Captainpaintball]

bflr

[Lijahsbubbe]

OOps. Big mistake. Saw that you are a soldier. Withdraw my comment. Hope you find relief.

[txhurl]

I recently moved into a new house and got this luxury queen bed with 400 count combed cotton sheets and you can't blast me awake with an F5 twister.

Make sure you sleep uncomfortably. Like where your ribs hurt and your knees jam up and your arm falls asleep . I used to be able to get up early before I fell into this despicable bliss.

[Ditter]

I recently got a new pillow top mattress, firm underneath and some high count cotton sheets (1000 count from Sam’s club) FABULOUS sleeping now.

[gaemes]

I always dream in color (peas in a pod, no?). Flight dreams are the best. Although I do really enjoy underwater dreams. Remember you are in control in your dreams. When you forget that they become nightmares. You might find at times that you are partially awake when you start to take control. Just relax, take control and enjoy the show. Please fell free to laugh at my analogy, but I liken it to the Matrix. You are the One.

[ConservaTexan]

Thanks for the laugh. :)

Don't mention it. I would have responded sooner, but I just woke up.

[tlj18]

I went out last night with a few of my civilian friends, and two of the three said that without an alarm, they will normally sleep 12+ hours. So is probably is somewhat natural for me! As long as I have an alarm, I'm OK. Since I joined the military, I've gotten used to sleeping just 5-6 hours a night, and sometimes less (as a civilian, I would usually get at least 7 hours a night). It was easy to get away with minimal sleep during Basic Training, since you were moving around and doing stuff all the time, sluggishness would get you yelled out, put in the front leaning rest, etc.

Although, I had a generally intellectual AIT, so you got sleepier a lot more. Some people would take caffeine pills and the like. I strongly resisted energy drinks until the very end (Full Throttle was my specialty). But I quit it on the very last day of school, and won't touch it again unless I have to (I mean, really have to). If you sit down in front of a computer dispassionately for many, many hours, the sleep monster will get you. Guaranteed. Especially when concentrating on what you're doing is counterproductive (i.e., copying Morse Code)...