Waking Up Tired

[SkypeGoat]

I'm 16, and (as I have heard) I should be getting 8-10 hours of sleep. I try to abide to this not only for general health, but to increase the chance of a LD. I swim after school, so I go to bed moderately tired but not too bad. Lately I have been going to bed at 9:30ish, and getting up at 6:30. 9 hours. That would seem to be right, but when I wake up I feel exhausted for the first 2-3 hours of the morning. On a few occasions I have gone to bed later (I do not know the exact time, but atleast by an hour) woke up at my usual time and felt great, I would not feel tired at all, even after the morning hours. Does anybody know why this is happening? Am I waking up during a certian sleep cycle and feeling tired, and vice versa?

[Mes Tarrant]

Well it very well may be that your body just works best with less hours of sleep. 9 or 10 hours is a lot by most adults' standards, and you're getting close to being an adult yourself. On a related note, I personally LD after my first 4 or 5 hours of sleep. So extra hours only hinder my recall.

[Burned up]

I'm 16, and (as I have heard) I should be getting 8-10 hours of sleep. I try to abide to this not only for general health, but to increase the chance of a LD. I swim after school, so I go to bed moderately tired but not too bad. Lately I have been going to bed at 9:30ish, and getting up at 6:30. 9 hours. That would seem to be right, but when I wake up I feel exhausted for the first 2-3 hours of the morning. On a few occasions I have gone to bed later (I do not know the exact time, but atleast by an hour) woke up at my usual time and felt great, I would not feel tired at all, even after the morning hours. Does anybody know why this is happening? Am I waking up during a certian sleep cycle and feeling tire, and vice versa? I don't know why, but I have felt the same. I think it's to do with deep sleep - of which we need something like 3 hours - and light sleep - which is what we usually get. We also dream in light sleep. It sounds like you can get all your deep sleep in the shorter nights. I can remember when I was your age exactly the same thing. I'd wake up exhausted at 10am on a Saturday morning, say, but OK at 7.30am during the week. It was worse when I woke up then went back to sleep. Perhaps we have lots of dreams, exhausting dreams, during those final hours of light sleep.

[Idolfan]

Normal people wake up feeling great...

[Hedphelym]

i wake up more tired then when i went to sleep. almost every time. i don't know why. i never wake up "Great".

[SkypeGoat]

Interesting... Guess I will try staying up a bit later tonight and seeing how it goes.

[The Cusp]

I've found that if your room is too hot, you can wake up feeling like that. Other than that, I'd say you're getting too much sleep, or just not eating right.

[SkypeGoat]

I went to bed a full hour later, and I was even more tired in the morning. I'll go back to my usuall time tonight and see how I feel. @The Cusp- I don't know where you live, but up in ohio november is full swing, meaning its pretty cold when I wake up. I believe that I'm eating right, I mean I am doing sports all the time so I do not think that would be it. Thanks for all the advice everybody.

[jabagawee]

The human body has a sleep cycle of about 90 minutes. For the life of me, I can't seem to remember where I got that fact. It's best to wake up during your light sleep cycle because that's where you are closest to conciousness. Think: would you rather wake up 2 seconds after you fell asleep or about an hour? Of course, when you are still in light sleep 2 seconds after you slept, you can wake up much easier. In your case, you say that you wake up after 9 hours, an exact multiple of 90 minutes. Not all humans are alike; your sleep cycle may differ from the average by a couple of miutes, making all the difference in the world. Whereas most people would awaken from their light sleep cycle, you may well be in the last stages of extremely heavy sleep, causing you to feel groggy and overall cruddy upon wake up time.

[Spartiate]

Waking up tired can mean three things. 1) Undersleeping 2) Oversleeping 3) A bad sleep (usually caused by your sleep cycle being a little distorted and not experiencing the deep stages of sleep to their full extent)