People who sleep 10 hours a night might be increasing their mortality rate. Are you concerned about the health effects of sleeping too much?

Although there may be a long term problem with sleeping to long, its nothing compared to the risks of not getting enough sleep. Lack of sleep can effect memory and concentration. So the risks of being involved in a traffic accident are probably much higher than the long term increase in the cancer risk rate.In addition I find that if I don't get enough sleep I'm unable to concentrate and so my performance at work suffers as well.

So given the choice between 5 hours of sleep or 10 hours of sleep, I'd strongly go for more sleep despite what the survey says.

I'm not sure I agree with that report. For years we've been told that we should be getting more sleep then we do (8 hours a night). Is sleeping 10 or 12 hours really that much of a danger were we should worry about a mortality rate?

Most of the time I'm lucky to sleep more then 5 hours. Lately I've been sleeping about 7 hours and waking up feeling sluggish and tired all day. I think the mortality rate is more a concern based on good sleep or bad sleep.

Good sleep being peaceful, sound, rpm sleep. Bad sleep being tossing and turning all night, waking up off and on all night long, etc.

No. I almost never have the opportunity to sleep 8 hours a night, let alone 10, so I feel pretty safe from any ill health effects from sleeping too much. That said, I will say that when I sleep for a long time (9 hours or more), I often end up waking up with a headache and more tired than I was when I went to bed the night before.

There is something about not being used to sleeping that much that makes it more detrimental than beneficial. But that happens almost never, so I feel pretty safe.

Sleeping too much causes lots of things, but I put no stock in studies. If you sleep too much yeah I suppose it could mess with the death rates. If you sleep so much then your waking hours are spent hurried etc and you cannot eat right.

Sometimes medications make people sleep to much, I know the ones I recently went on for my heart made me way to tired. I need the pills, and simply adjusted the time schedule. I was sleeping the 8 at night plus a few naps in the day, it was exhausting.

I could not get work done, I could not focus on writing and lacked the energy for housework most days. I am very concerned about sleeping too much, as I am a single mom, without me working I am not getting pad. That means sooner or later there would be no food on my table and no roof over our heads.

I adjusted my meds and now only do one nap a day and am feeling much better. I cannot skip the pills altogether, or I would have more heart attacks.

I'd love to be concerned with the effects of sleeping too much! Most nights, I'm lucky if I get six good hours. I usually supplement it with a nap somewhere down the line, but still.It's gotten to the point, even, where I cannot sleep much more than that, even if I don't have to wake up and don't set an alarm.

Last night, I went to bed around 3 a.m. (I'd already changed all the clocks for Daylight Saving, so that isn't a favor) and woke up around 10, without disturbance of any kind, completely on my own accord.So even if there are health problems associated with sleeping too much -- it seems possible, but medical studies come up with all sorts of possibilities -- I will never, ever, ever have to worry about them.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.