Sleep Myth or Reality Tired of too much sleep?

Slept too much and then tired? Is that possible?
Anyone who goes to bed early in the evening naturally hopes to be fit and well rested the next day. But sometimes the opposite happens in the morning - you still feel tired and the body does not get going. "Maybe you slept too much?" Is then a commonly heard reaction. But is there anyway? Can sleeping also do the opposite and make you tired? In conversation with the news agency "dpa" clarifies an expert.
Ten hours of sleep are not always too much
Who does not know that? After ten hours of sleep on the weekend, you feel tired and would like to stay on forever. "No wonder, when you sleep so much, that makes you tired", you often hear from outsiders. But is there really something in this theory? "Yes", says Prof. Ingo Fietze, head of the interdisciplinary sleep medicine center of the Charité University Medical Center Berlin. At least if someone usually has a sound sleep. However, this does not mean that ten hours of sleep are automatically too much and therefore cause fatigue. "You can actually sleep as long as the body demands," continues Fietze to the "dpa".

Tired in spite of a long sleep? Is it too late to sleep? Picture: lenets_tan - fotolia

Falling asleep is like a power nap at the wrong time
It will be more difficult if you are already well rested after seven or eight hours, but then still sleeps. "Thereafter, the body is no longer in deep sleep." Accordingly, the turn over again bring not more recovery, but do exactly the opposite. "It's like a power nap at the wrong time or too long a nap," explains the expert. If you wake up rested after seven or eight hours, getting up is the best idea to make the day fit and well-rested.

Seven to nine hours of sleep are ideal for adults
How much sleep should ideally be slept at night, however, is different and depends - like many other things - especially on the age. Newborns and babies up to three months need the most sleep at 14 to 18 hours. Eleven to 14 and school children (6-13 years) sleep nine to eleven hours, according to the recommendation of the US National Sleep Foundation. Teenagers would then "only" eight to ten hours, adults between 18 and 64 years should sleep seven to nine hours. At a higher age, a sleep time of seven to eight hours is ideal, according to the National Sleep Foundation. (No)