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[superpooper]

Hi, I tend to have problems with excessive sleep. I usually sleep 10-12 hours a night.

Chemically, do you think it's high serotonin? Low dopamine? Both?

Is there something I'm not aware of?

By the way, I really really love sleep. That half awake, half asleep stay in the morning is like pure pleasure to me. LOL.

[Athan]

Hi, I tend to have problems with excessive sleep.  I usually sleep 10-12 hours a night.

Chemically, do you think it's high serotonin?  Low dopamine?  Both?

Is there something I'm not aware of?

By the way, I really really love sleep.  That half awake, half asleep stay in the morning is like pure pleasure to me.  LOL.

Agreed...I have the same problem, but I think it's just because I barely get to sleep during the week that I just take advantage of it and sleep 9+ hours on the ends. Chemically, I really have no clue - but similar to what I do the answer could be simpler than a chemical imbalance.

[Liquidus]

Depending on my schedule (which usually extremely forgiving), this week has been the exception. I've gotten about 4-5 hours of sleep at most during the week days (the days were action packed ones). I slept in for 13 hours yesterday, and I slept for 6 and a half last night.

I generally just try to pick up sleep where I can. As much as I love sleeping though, it really is an inconvenience, I often have a hard time falling asleep, and sleeping cuts into my activities.

[spacey]

I didn't know high serotonin levels caused you to sleep a lot but I did know excessive serotonin levels leads to a higher concentration of melatonin, although Effexor makes me extremely tired it also gives me enormous troubles falling asleep though that I might be able to blame that one norepinephrine levels.

[revnik]

I'm thinking you're having high melatonin-levels which could indeed be a result of execessive seratonin-levels. Once you're in a cyle of sleeping a lot your body will produce consequent high levels of melatonin. Try to brake the cyle, clock your sleep on 8h/night and get enough daylight as well.

Obviously you shouldn't be taking melatonin or 5-htp supplements, so are you? And who doesn't love sleeping anyways it's healthy but to mutch of it can make one lazy and overall tired/unmotivated. Maybe pickup some sports if you haven't already.

It also just might be the case that you need allot of sleep, some people just require more (or less) sleep than other, approx. ranging from 5 - 11 hours a night.

[luv2increase]

Hi, I tend to have problems with excessive sleep.  I usually sleep 10-12 hours a night.

Chemically, do you think it's high serotonin?  Low dopamine?  Both?

Is there something I'm not aware of?

By the way, I really really love sleep.  That half awake, half asleep stay in the morning is like pure pleasure to me.  LOL.

There are a number of factors that could cause this. I believe the main one is that some ppl just flat out need more sleep than others. I wouldn't say that 10-12 hours is excessive. Anything over 12 hours is excessive. It also depends on how much you do in the day. If you exert yourself very hard mentally and physically you will obviously need more sleep than if you hadn't. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

[Evolutionary]

Sleep apnea, high serotonin which converts to melatonin, sleep deprivation, not enough dopamine all may explain your excessive sleep.

[ajnast4r]

set an alarm, wake yourself up at 7.5 hours.
your body will adjust.

[sp0sp0]

Talk to a doctor about your sleeping too much. Sleeping too much has cost me many years of productivity.

Get a drug that is a stimulant if you really do not like it. I started taking wellbutrin yesterday. I hope my many years of unproductiveness and bad situation changes.

[Evolutionary]

I think *some* sleep deprivation may be better than none at all if you can get some work done. You may be used to procrastinating, putting things off to the next day and if you don't deliberately stay up late in spite of feeling sleepy a vicious cycle of unproductivity may develop.