why am i tired right when i wake up !! Huh?!

If you'd like me to nerdsplain something that might help, here I go.

Your body has a "sleep cycle" where it goes from deeper sleep to lighter sleep (including REM stage) and back again. The average length of one cycle is 1.5 hours. If you wake up during a light-sleep phase, it's generally much easier and leaves you more energized. So if you were currently in a light-sleep phase and you had the option to sleep another 40 minutes or wake up now, you'd be better off choosing to wake up now. Otherwise you'd have time to fall into a deeper sleep before you wake up, which would make the waking-up experience more unpleasant and leave you more grumpy. There are apps that try to listen to your breathing/movement and estimate how deep of sleep you're in and wake you when you're in lighter sleep rather than waiting till the exact time you set your alarm to.

Memes aside though, a basic understanding of circadian rhythm does make the original meme kind of unnecessary, but yeah

also a nerd here. I understand why but i still dont like it

Fr

Circadian rhythm is important if you mess with it you get more tired at worse times

Love it

Real

This has always confused me lol

same its like??? Bro i just slept for 10 hours why on earth am tired now. like Yo God wth bro????

Fr, whenever I think I've had a good night's sleep, I feel shattered 😭

Sometimes if you oversleep it has the opposite effect

Parents: "You just need to go to sleep earlier."
Me who slept for 14 go***amn hours last night and is tired: "...ok"

because 14 hours of sleep isnt enough energy for me to not get tired of certain people's stupid bullcrap

I can't function with 10 hours but can function with 8 hours
Just try not to sleep to much

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FR

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Being tired is so hawt right now

This has always confused me lol

If you'd like me to nerdsplain something that might help, here I go.

Your body has a "sleep cycle" where it goes from deeper sleep to lighter sleep (including REM stage) and back again. The average length of one cycle is 1.5 hours. If you wake up during a light-sleep phase, it's generally much easier and leaves you more energized. So if you were currently in a light-sleep phase and you had the option to sleep another 40 minutes or wake up now, you'd be better off choosing to wake up now. Otherwise you'd have time to fall into a deeper sleep before you wake up, which would make the waking-up experience more unpleasant and leave you more grumpy. There are apps that try to listen to your breathing/movement and estimate how deep of sleep you're in and wake you when you're in lighter sleep rather than waiting till the exact time you set your alarm to.

Who are you, who are so wise in the way of science

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me rn:

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