Feeling exhausted after 10 hours of sleep

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<p>It's really bothering me and I don't understand it. I went to bed around 12-12:30am and slept straight through to 10. On MWF I don't have class until 1pm, so I don't really have a set time to wake up, (or go to bed). </p>

<p>But despite almost 10 hours of sleep, i wake up feeling like i could sleep for another 4 hours. On top of that I feel completely unmotivated to do my homework. I love it when I am productive, but I have to FEEL like being productive otherwise nothing gets done. Maybe its my boring college that does it to me, but i feel like this a lot. I'm just really worried about this carrying over to the University im transferring to next Fall. </p>

<p>I'm positive some of you have experienced this. If so, was there a dietary/ lifestyle change that you used to help change it? I need to sort this out.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>For one, I would start drinking more water and exercising more</p>

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<p>Try to maintain a consistent bedtime and waking time. Sometimes, getting too much sleeps makes you feel worse than geting too little.</p>

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<p>Don’t sleep so long… 10 hours is way too much! And go to bed before midnight.
Sleep something like 11 pm - 7 am and drink some coffee/ginseng in the morning to adapt to the new cycle.</p>

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<p>You’re messing up your sleep cycle. 10 hours is too much. Aim for 8 or 7 and use your extra time for hw/study.</p>

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<p>try to wake up in the beginning of your sleep cycle so that you aren’t in deep sleep when you wake up. Usually 5/6 cycles is good and each one is 90 minutes long.</p>

<p>Check out <a href=“Sleep Calculator: Ideal Bedtime & Wake Up Times - Sleepytime”>Sleep Calculator: Ideal Bedtime & Wake Up Times - Sleepytime;

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<p>I’m pretty sure as a teenager and probably til near the end of college you should get 8-10 hours of sleep because you are still growing. Now actually having time to get that is another thing, but I don’t think you are “sleeping too much” and that’s why your tired</p>

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<p>Don’t sleep too much</p>

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<p>I don’t think you’re necessarily sleeping too much. I, personally, always feel best at 9-10 hours a night.<br>
I would say probably you aren’t getting enough fresh food (fruit and vegetables), fresh air, water, and exercise.</p>

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<p>When that happened to me, I had mono. I didn’t have any other symptoms besides a swollen gland early on. Lasted for months.</p>

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<p>I had the same problem recently.The solution is to adjust your sleeping times so that you sleep EARLY.Try to knock of at 10:30 or so and be up around 8:30 to 9 the next morning.You won’t feel tired.That old adage “Early to bed,early to rise” is the general rule for this kind of thing.</p>

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<p>It helps to try schedule your classes at the same times everyday.
I set all of mine for 10 AM. Water and fruit also helps. I always carry a glass bottle filled with water with me and refill many times a day.
I usually go to bed later than I should like 12.30 or 1AM and would recommended going to bed earlier than that.</p>

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<p>too much sleep. 4 - 6 hours you will feel like a sunshine cloud.</p>

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<p>Go to bed early for a few days and set your alarm at an obscenely early time of the morning. For the next week or so you will wake up fully refreshed about half an hour before that obscenely early time, although you’ll go to bed so early that your social life will die. :D</p>

<p>I really agree with whoever said to drink more water. That happens to me a lot when I’m dehydrated, and if I don’t force myself to drink a lot of water then I don’t drink enough, particularly since I started college. Particularly it helps me with motivation to do homework, like what I should be doing right now instead of being on CC.</p>

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<p>This tends to happen to me. If I keep a constant amount of sleep every day, trying to catch up on the weekend or some other time by forcing myself to sleep 10+ hours I wake up feeling tired and sort of nauseous.</p>

<p>What you need to do is try to sleep the same amount of time, generally. If you wake up earlier than you wanted, close your eyes and see if you can sleep. If you’re still awake after like 5-10 minutes, wake up. Don’t try to force yourself to sleep more than you want to</p>

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<p>Yeah 10 hours is not a lot. Its proven that teens need at least 9 hours of sleep.</p>

<p>I would recommend eating right and exercise (no alcohol). It is best to have a consistent sleep cycle. I’ve sleep 12 hours before and felt tired but once Im up, i feel great.</p>

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<p>maybe that’s cause your sleep cycle is messed up and you havent reached the REM stage of sleep…</p>

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<p>some of the comments on here are really messed up.</p>

<p>let’s see what you pick</p>

<p>the pill that makes sense
or the pill that doesn’t</p>

<p>or just take sleeping pills i guess</p>

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<p>Word of advice: 10 hours of sleep is usually recommended only for the very young, or at least for people not in college.</p>

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<p>I wasn’t 100% serious. And how young is very young? </p>

<p>Half of you are saying it is unhealthy to sleep that long, which is ridiculous. You still should get around 9 hours until your early 20s I believe. Of course, that’s wishful thinking.</p>