Disorders that cause you to sleep too much?

My boyfriend is 17 years old and sleeps constantly. I understand that sleeping is a natural an enjoyable habit, but the amount of sleep he wants is a bit excessive. I am no sure why this is,but looking apon looking up sleeping Disorders I found that heart problems can cause you to have sleeping problems. He has a heart murmur and I’m wondering if that is relevant to the problem at all? ( lol I decided to give readers all potential problems ) For example he was recently able to stay up until 4 am one night. I’m not sure how he managed this because most of the time he can’t keep his eyes open after 10:30. Anyhow he went to bed at 4 am and slept until 12:00 then I talked to him for about a half an hour and he passed out … He slept until five then stayed up until 9ish and slept tell 10 the next morning. He seems to always be tired, and I’m wondering if this is something that he should look in to or not .

Also, he does not smoke, use drugs , have an overly stressful life, live in a noisy area, consume alcohol, or consume a large amount of caffeine.
However, he does have AD HD and his meds enable him to stay up until about 4 then he crashes. He doesn’t take his meds often though.




Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

and that will not make you feel drowsy/disoriented the next morning?




Technorati Tags: ,

Over-the-counter sleeping aids?

Help! I need an over-the-counter sleeping aid that actually works and won’t make me feel hung over the next morning.




Technorati Tags: ,

How can you help yourself to feel sleepy?

I always had this problem where I can’t force myself to sleep when I’m supposed to wake up early the next morning. Is there anything -preferably natural things, not sleeping pills- that can help me feel sleepy ? I heard cough syrup is good to make you dose off. But anyway, I’m not too sure.




Technorati Tags: , , , ,

Im at the stage where you sit there for long hours continuously revising for those dreaded exams that keep coming up. However, I have a problem as i read a book for 5 minutes in which i just drop off until the next morning.

I’ve tried power napping before (in my bed, on a chair, on the floor), but i still manage to fall asleep!! How can i nap for about 20 minutes so that i can continue what i’m doing?




Technorati Tags: , ,

How can i solve my sleep disorder?

every night i have horrible nightmares and i am told the next morning i talk in my sleep and then i start screaming. I dont remember any of this but i do remember about once a month i sleep walk around my house and ill just wake up randomly.I need to fix this i believe its the cause of my fatigue all the time




Technorati Tags: , , , ,




I took it last night and felt really ‘hung over’ and fatigued the next morning , anyone else feel this way when taking rozerem
thats the problems i slept for more than 8 hours too long 12 hours i slept then when i wake up I usually work out but it was so fatigued i couldnt




Technorati Tags: , ,




I’ve heard that you’re skin wont be able to breath in the night. I woke up the next morning and I washed my face. But my sunscreen if waterproof. Do you think that its still on my face and only a good cleansing will get it off? Is is bad to fall asleep with your sunscreen on?




Technorati Tags: , ,

Does melatonin work as a natural sleep aid?




I’ve done some research and talked to a few colleagues and they mentioned melatonin can work as a sleep aid and assist in more sound sleep (REM) has anyone tried melatonin? Does it work? Any ill side effects? I hate taking otc sleep aids because of the horrible groggy feeling the next morning.. any other suggestions for better sleep?




Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , ,




I am taking the SAT tomorrow morning. I have to wake up at 5:45 because of DST. I plan go to sleep as late as 10:15, and as early as 8:45, so I complete full sleep cycles. So do sleeping pills lower your ability to concentrate the next morning? my brother says that they make you feel very awake, but i want to clarify here if that means lower concentration.
and would you recommend taking half a dosage instead of a full one? etc…
I should probably mention that taking the pills are probably going to be nessecary to fall asleep at the times i mentioned up




Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , ,




Like I know it’s not insomnia, because I don’t have any problems actually falling asleep, but if i sleep 2 hours, or 12 hours, I feel extremely tired the next day, and I end up falling asleep in class, and seem like I’ve been up for days straight, even though I slept a good amount the day before. And I know I’m not skipping any REM cycles, because I have dreams every night, but I just don’t feel refreshed the next morning? Any help, because I wanna have some knowledge on the subject before going to a doctor.




Technorati Tags: , , , , ,

psychology rem sleep!?




john goes to bed at 10 P.M. and quickly falls asleep. He sleeps soundly until 6 A.M. the next morning. During the first four hours of sleep, john will most likely experience:
A) the complete absence of dreaming.
B) stages 3 and 4 NREM sleep.
C) very light sleep consisting almost entirely of stages 1 and 2 NREM.
D) long episodes of REM sleep.




Technorati Tags: , , , ,




I’ve been what i guess you could say a "heavy" marijuana user for about 13 and a half months. I quit and am now 48 days sober. The reason I chose to quit was because I actually had what I believe my first panic attack on weed on new years. I was totally paranoid, time felt so slow, and that I would never come down. That scared me and caused me to not smoke any for about two weeks and when I did smoke my last j, it didn’t give me the usual happy feeling I had on weed and instead sort of gave me a depressed feeling. I thought it was because I was concerned about my cat who is suffering from diabetes but I decided to call it quits. Like many others, had no idea there was such a thing as withdrawal from marijuana. So you can well imagine that about 2 days after quitting the symptoms hit me like a train and scared the living hell out of me. I experienced my first ever panic attack 3 days after going cold turkey. I kept thinking something was wrong with me and I was for sure about to die. I thought I may have smoked something that was bad and gave me brain damage and such. I wasn’t myself that week which was bad ’cause it was the first week of the new semester for college. Three days later I convinced myself that nothing was wrong and I felt a big relief and thought I was back to normal. However the next morning as I got up to go to work I looked in the mirror and suddenly the depression hit me again. I didn’t feel the same person, nothing felt real. I felt totally disconnected with reality. I didn’t know that that first week of withdrawal is the most intense and it wasn’t until the second week of quitting that I finally found out that it’s actually been withdrawal I’ve been going through. The physical symptoms for the most part are gone, no more insomnia, appetite loss, headaches etc. I still have dreams that haven’t stopped since the second week but they have been getting milder and milder since then. What I’ve noticed though is that everytime once sympom stops, another seems to come. Like the first two weeks I was mainly facing the physical symptoms, then they’re gone. After that it became more psychological, the depression and anxiety started coming in waves now and suddenly I’ve started having pain all throughout my body which was a result of that anxiety. I kept feeling pain in my arms and chest and such and I was fearing for a heart attack (I’m a little on the heavy side). It turns out that the anxiety was the cause of these nerve pains and they are now gone for the most part. But now the last few days I have been suffering from derealization and depersonalization. At least that’s what I think it is. A lot of times things just feel surreal and nothing feels the same anymore. I find that this marijuana crap is always on my mind. Not in an addictive way, I just wake up wondering if the symptoms are gone or why did I ever do it in the first place. I’ll be out with friends or home having a good time but then the thoughts come back to me that something doesn’t feel right and I feel sad again. I also don’t have that full "thrill" in life I used to have before smoking my last J but I notice I am getting my emotions back little by little. I’m just wondering if anyone out there has experienced anything like this? It feels like it’s getting better than worse than getting better then worse. I have doubts of my identity and purpose in life and just want to be in control again. I want to be free from these thoughts. I keep telling myself that with time I’m sure it will get better but these thoughts and emotions just seem to get the best of me. I don’t need antidepressants, I don’t need a psyciatrist. I know I can get through this I’m just tired of being confused. I want answers and am ready to get rid of this once and for all. All answers are greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot and god bless
sorry it was supposed to say, I also don’t have that full "thrill" in life I used to have EVEN before smoking my last J




Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

sleep problems!!! i HATE mornings!! please help!?




ok so i have sleeping problems no matter what i cant wake myself up i have tryed many alarms and set them all of at one time and put them on the other side of the room and everything. so in the morning im a teenager i wanna sleep for around 8 hours whenever i get in bed and go to sleep there is no way i can get myself out of bed for 14 hours or more. whenever i have to be up the next morning i stay up all night because i know if i go to sleep no matter what it is the next day i wont be up i turn my alarms off in my sleep and if i do wake up i turn them off and go back to sleep without even thinking about what i have to do its getting in the way of my life and im always tired cause i stay up all the time like right now its 4 AM someones coming in the morning to give me money for plowing a driveway so i have to stay up to be awake and then i stay up all day cause i get wraped up in what needs done please someone help!
when im up i have no problems staying up but feel crapy cause im so tired but i think 60 + hour days because i have to much to do arnt good for me at all and im sick of feeling tired
no one but my girlfriend can get me out of bed my mom trys to wake me up i get pissed or anyone in my family i get pissed and yell at them to let me go back to bed without even thinking about sleeping my mom has said its depression because i feel my girlfirend is the only thing worth getting out of bed for but she lives 30 min drive away and has a life and cant come to my house to wake me up every morning haha




Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,




Sometimes I will listen to a song or even a whole album on repeat when I go to sleep. The next morning the music sounds completely different, whether it be the speed of the song, the pitch of the voices or the instruments in the song. After this the song never sounds the way it used to again and is just not as good. Why does this happen? Is it the way your brain processes the sounds that are affected because of exposure while sleeping? Why does this happen?




Technorati Tags: , , , , , ,