Can You Sleep Too Much? (The Answer Might Surprise You) 

"you should sleep without an alarm clock" me who sleeps 10-14 hours without an alarm clock: *hold up*

Teenagers need 9.5 hours of sleep? Tell that to our schools.

I need 12 hours to feel rested. And I'm not an athlete. I'm just depressed and have anxiety.

No alarm clock?!!! I’d wake up two days late for work!

"Correlation doesn't mean causation". Love that analysis! Too often people make this mistake; it's an uneducated mistake to make. Keep up the great work!

One big sign of depression is people who sleep too much 🔥

So the more sleep the better? Well yes but actually no but actually yes, but it seems like no

But my mom is my alarm clock

Athletes: I need 10-12 hours of sleep School: did he say 3-4hours

I’m 64 years old. I take many medications. I’m up 3-4 times in the night. I sleep after breakfast. I sleep after lunch. I sleep after our 3:00 snack. I wish that I didn’t sleep so much 😢

Sleep till you wake up naturally and get fired from work or fail school due to always being late. If our days were 28 hours long, we would all get more rest.

There are small villages in Siberia where people sleep all winter, and consistently live into their nineties.

"Let your body regenerate" Me coming from a party at 2 A.M. and waking up at 7 A.M.

I was having problems with sleep because I sleep over than 10 hours because of my desease and I didint know that. The matter is that I wake up very energetic every single day, but also I feel stressed, angry and unhappy because they had told us you just have to sleep 8 hours per day. After I listen to this video I felt more comfortable and relaxed, as if something heavy used to be on my shoulders has disappeared. Finally I want to thank you for this video and I am looking forward for the next videos.

I JUST GOT YOUR CHANNEL AND I LOVE IT GREAT JOB, THANK YOU SO MUCH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏

I really enjoy your videos, thank you! But what many people dont know: The amount of sleep you need is also linked to the amount of oxygen you get while sleeping. With fresh air you regenerate faster

There is an upward risk because most people sleeping 9+ hours are the elderly or those with disease who are closer to dying.

Who wants to live longer in this insane world, anyway?

I get WAAY too little and too much sleep at different times. Welp, who’s digging my grave first?

Sleep till you wake up naturally.

I sleep on average 6-8 hrs a day. Plus I exercise 3x times a week and eat healthy.

I sleep 9.5 - 10 hrs in average and I feel good. I'm 47.

I sleep a lot everyday and I love it! I have a really tough and stressful job.

I can recommend listening to a Delta frequency with headphones. Delta is the deepest sleep pattern. Put on your headphones while going to bed and find a track (on RU-vid for example), that puts out Delta frequency. Its very healing and you will get tired fast.

I think you have to distinguish whether you really sleep much because you are still tired, or just unmotivated and lazy. Sometimes in the weekend i already wake up after 8-9 hours, but I am too lazy to get up and sleep again for two more hours. I have the feeling that the extra sleep is actually a waste of time and does not make me less tired.

I sleep to much because my job is easy. I make enough to just get by, suffer from life long depression. I sleep past noon and only eat 1 time s day and it's never enough to actually fill me up. I'm sober, single and think i need something more to live for. I need to go back to gym. It helps

I’m glad you covered athletes. Especially young athletes should be getting lots of sleep. I like getting 9-10hr of sleep.

I can't sleep because I'm watching this video at 5:30 am😳

“You’ll die no matter what”-if u mean of age,ask Aubrey De Grey,if u mean u’ll die at some point ur theoretically right as u dont live infinite amount of time u can cure aging and live millions of years but u’d die by heat death of universe if it happen and u dont go to other dimension

Watching this video in 2 a. m. instead of sleeping

It's definitely dependent on your rituals you can get full night cycles with 6 hour of sleep, you can sleep 8 or 7 but if you have no deep and no rem sleep, it's same as not sleeping at all

When I do wake up naturally I just immediately fall asleep again 😵😂

I was thinking the same that this idea of sleeping more than 9 Hours is Bullshit. Sometimes our body need it. This is most impressive well explained video on sleep I have ever seen. Thank you very much for this information. Also, please make a video to explain the relation between sleep and food + exercise because I believe what you eat and what you do with your body also matters a lot when comes to sleep and health. And I think healthy food and a certain amount of physical activity can decrease the need of more sleep. In that case, Body don't need to repair that much during sleep.

I use to be a victim of not enough sleep. Then I was diagnosed to have Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Sense 1997 I have used a CPAP Machine to get my sleep. I use it for ALL sleep, even naps. If you have symptoms such as snoring, dry mouth, high blood pressure, over weight, falling asleep while driving and (or) can't stay awake during the day. Consider asking your Doctor about having a sleep study (titration). Remember, all issues in life stem from getting good sleep.

Bro even i sleep. Like 9hrs. And still feel tired. I asked dr, did some testing but alls fine. Could pls suggest me something

I understand what your saying, it’s just more sleep itself doesn’t actually cause an earlier death. It could just be a sign that something’s going on. It is possible that you just like your sleep or are lazy haha. I struggle to get enough sleep these days anyway :/

That was exactly what I though! Correlation is often mixed up with causation. Thanks for sharing ❣️😃👍🏽

When I became a teenager I would sleep for 12 hours at a time easily if nobody woke me. It was annoying because it was interfering with my life, but everyone said that was normal for teens and that it would pass. Now I’m 23 and literally nothing has changed in the slightest, it’s like my body still requires the same amount of sleep it did at 16, and if anything it’s gotten worse and more intense. I’ve gone to my doctor and they just tell me it’s stress, none of my blood work shows anything, I have no idea why my body is doing this.

If I don't put the alarm on I will sleep for 11-13 hours and still be more tired than before I went to bed..

I must be different than most people then. I get both of these. I have low amounts of sleep during the week because of school, but high amounts during weekends. I can sometimes sleep for about 13 hours straight or 16 hours total with naps in one day on the weekend. However I feel just as tired as I would be when I wake up for school. It's a weird schedule and it seems to be balancing but I can't entirely tell. Regardless I think I've found a system that could work with people that aren't like normal people and can't just fall asleep as soon as they hit the bed, or just naturally sleep. ASMR has seemed to work for the most part, but hugging a cat or dog while trying to sleep and letting them go when you are about to helps too. There's other ways but I wouldn't recommend it. One way is to take melatonin, at first it sounds like a bulletproof plan until you realize that you can become reliant and become immune to it. Another way is to just lay there with the darkness trying to sleep, sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. My point is, is that there honestly isn't one true way to fall asleep nor get the "required" amount of hours of sleep. It depends on the person, I personally feel like a zombie with only 6-9 hours, and I feel good at about 11-13. From what I know I have no actual illness of some sorts nor have insomnia, at least not as severe as I used to have it. I'm able to get sleep and it still doesn't entirely work out. So I guess there's just some things that don't work out regardless of how hard you try, you just have to find what is the BEST result or course of action.

My grandfather died when he was 112years he told me I must never sleep too much 🙄

Kids really are physiological and psychological stresses, great analogy 😅😂🤣😭

Oh, this is very good to know! I heard somewhere that too much sleep isn't good. And when I slept 10 hours, because I had a very exhausting day before, I felt bad about it. Not anymore :)

how can you sleep 9 to 12 hrs a day when you have two jobs and a busy life?

I just sleep late. And then sleep in the afternoon bc when its night time I'm not sleepy. And then in the afternoon I sleep for like 3-5 hrs

Lol I can’t remember when I slept 9 hours or more last time

I don't have cancer or depression but I feel the need to sleep like 10 hours minimum lol. I'm wasting a lot of time with sleeping and naps everyday.

I got severe headache when I sleep too much,4 hours is enough for me I feel refresh within that..

I recall one winter i slept 40 hrs!!! Then i woke up and i was no longer a bear.

I guess I sleep lots. But when I wake up i feel like a sloth lol

Well I guess I'm checking out early I get 5-6 hours a day ☠🤣🤣🤣

I sleep 10-11 hours a day for the last 8 years since i was 23

I have slept more than 8 hours since I was a kid. Never lacked sleep, and I have been suffering depression and anxiety for ten years now.

For those who got scared that they're dying from sleeping too much: people who have an illness like cancer sleep alot more, which makes the mortality rate higher at higher amounts of sleep. Alot of sleep is a healthy thing

So if I sleep 7 hour and take a 30 min nap later we'll I be good

My father slept alot...... He died at age 53.

How about someone who’s undergoing excessive emotional, mental/ psychological stress E.g. a student or a person stuck in a toxic/traumatic life event/phase/environment…. Just like the athlete, would it be completely normal for them to also be sleeping up to 12 hours too?

Everyone has a expiration date

great work

Hmm, what if you sleep 5-6 hours daily and you wake naturally, you have tons of energy until it is time to sleep again?

I usually sleep about 12-15 hours I don’t really have any physical illnesses, but can mental stressors also be a reason for oversleeping?

It is possible that the people who sleep more have other unhealthy habits. Usually people with busy, active lives sleep less and eat healthier.

Some ppl feel fresh when they sleep 6-7 hrs, and it don't work for everybody also same applies here...

Me: watching benefits of sleeping Also me: watching this @ 3am in the morning

Why us students always wake up early

Anyone else here because they slept the most they’ve ever slept in the life? (18 hours). It’s sunset right now and I’m 15 and I’m about to wonder if I’m going to die soon X

Well I'm dying sooner 😱

Can you please make a video on tendency of getting clingy to people??

There are times I sleep 32 hours, the longest I have slept was 38 hours, yesterday I slept 24 hours, I dont know what to do.

Living in a society that is rigged and bound to self delete ima sleep as much as possible

Honestly, this channel helps me out a lot!! I'm definitely buying you some coffee real soon. Keep up the good work.

You have an awesome channel. Thank you.

Me: sees thumbnail * Me:I dont even sleep. Wait? So I'll always live Vid starts:we know that not getting enough sleep leads to a short life- Me:wAiT

this is soo good information ty💖💖💖

Does that mean.... SCHOOL IS TRYING TO KILL ME?????

I guess if you sleep allot, normally this is because you are either sick or mentally stressed. Bouth well known to take down life time. As you mention in the movie. 😉

How am I supposed to sleep even 7 hours a day when I have LOTS of work to do... It’s impossible

Thank you...I was going to rant about correlations when I saw your title...but thankfully, I actually listened to the video. Kudos for addressing this...because a recent pathetic “ study” (I use the term tongue in cheek) out of China grabbed headlines...some “ research” doesn’t come close to being science!

I sleep 7 to 8 but sometimes I do so much work it ant enough, oh well that's life

i heard that there are tribes in Indonesia where if you keep your coat on in somebody's house, the families go to war!

It's been 5 or 6 years I sleep 12 hours+ everyday 😁

Albert Einstein sleep 14hours a day

I am in the sweet spot

My wife and I aren't compatible. She needs 14 hours and I need 4

Seven to nine hours is the sweet spot. But, there are many people who have to get up often to go to the loo. They can sleep only two or three hours at a time. In that case, would they also die younger?

What happens if u sleep a lot? Well might be different for me because I have diabetes since February well that’s when I found out but felt like I had it since 2019 in October cause that’s when I had a lot of sleep like I would only stay awake for 3-4 hours

i sleep around 12 hours if i dont set an alarm. and if i set an alarm it doesnt work waking up. has always been like that and i am not ill

Sleep is the cousin of death

Long hourse sleep is not good specially people with medications my grand father died middle age after morning prayer 5:00 than went to bed back when family wake him up for breakfast & to go work he died in his morning sleep long sleep not good at all nap only one hours not more than that

Great! Now I can just blame this vid for turning my alarm off! 🤭🤭🤭

I havent sleeped whole night, then i sleeped for 8 hours, been awake for 3 4 hours and sleept again for 9 hours, never sleeped that much in my life

i get up... and go back to sleep. even an alarm doesn't help

Let's all just sleep being awake is so over rated 😴 everyone needs at least 12 hours 😴 of sleep sleep at 7am go to sleep at 7pm wake up get bath 🛁 dressed leave house at 8pm go have fun all night long 😀

Loved this

Very insightful! Thanks for making this video. It's useful.

😂 need the alarm clock for work.

Try shift work .That will really destroy your health

Great messages of sleep

Could I sleep forever?

I should seek a doctor, sometimes I sleep 14 hours daily per week and wake up super tired