With sleep drunkenness in the news, ABC 7 reports on how getting too much sleep can contribute to the problem.
For years medical professionals have warned of the hazards of not getting enough sleep. But getting too many Z’s may be responsible for you feeling dazed, disoriented and confused…and possibly perceived by others as a little drunk.
“If you’re normally sleeping eight hours or so, then suddenly decide, ‘oh, I’m going to have a really nice weekend’ and you sleep eleven or twelve hours, you may wake up so groggy that you don’t really wake up for twenty or thirty minutes,” says Dr. Matthew Edlund at Center for Circadian Medicine.
This happens to a lot of people, he says. “That’s when people wake up, but they really don’t wake up. They’re still in between sleep and awake.”
Most of the time, he says people just feel really, really groggy. “Like this lead pipe hanging over your back, and they just hardly can move.”
