read about the world record holder, who stayed up for 11 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)
Although you will recover by sleeping far longer than you normally do, it takes more than sleeping once to recover.
The best and usual way it happens is you'll sleep for 10-15 hours, wake up (be awake and do you for however long u tryna), then if you want to fix your circadian rhythm (our organic internal time-clock), then getting back to bed at the next evening and sleep and probably at least 9 hours, depends on how much you like to go bad to bed when you wake up.
just sorta surprising because I have personally stayed up on binges as long as 78 hours, but once you finally sleep after that, more than 15 hours is simply just not necessary. Here's the weird thing, obviously this 3-day spree was Adderall-fueled, which completely destroyed my appetite and constantly threatened to dehydrate me to a desert even while carrying a camel bak (easier/faster to drink more) around. I would eat the bare minimum to not die and lose up 7-10lbs every 32 hours or so (estimate with weighing twice a day). All I consumed was protein shakes, fruit juice, water, fruit, and MAYBE a bite of chicken or a few cheezits.
I'll feel like my back is broken, It takes 3x as long to complete a full breath, my short-term memory is gone, but this is all from the lack of sleep, not food.
Sure certain foods and more of them will help you feel and deal with frustration better, but the real actual kickers are from sleep deprivation.
So knowing this,
why my entire life, if I sleep beyound 16 hours, I wake up feeling literally almost ill. Remember the camel bak bottle? I also keep it by my bedside, so when I sleep long I always have water by my bed to drink. Sure, you could say then lack of food, nutrients maybe. But many times at the end of sprees after smoking so much to relax my anxiety I would finally randomly kick my appetite back on from munchies and pig out. Some on chips or whatever, but also on tons of fruit, whole-grain, and meat.
No matter what everytime I sleep this long I have one symptom no matter what, small webs of pain that shoot across usually just my right or left side of my temple region. nausea can sometimes occur, but I feel like that may be dehydration (remember, even if I hadn't ate much, humans can surive far longer w/o food than water).
Anyway, boring personal stories aside, I can tell my adderall is kicking in on this friday morning, and I have hyper focused and wrote a novel here
WHAT IM BASICALLY GETTING AT IS,
It seems like your body has a "sleep limit", unless sedated, that inhibits sleeping forever even if you constantly took melatonin you would just get sick and throw it up.
Think about it,
what if coma's are just our brain being traumatized and forgetting how to wake us up, hardly ever consider how simple it is that our body knows to wake up and not just stay in hibernation forever. Think about it, when you're sitting there in bed and can't sleep, you can't focus on sleeping because you know that NO MATTER WHAT you won't be conscious or self-aware once you fall asleep. Basically, you will never be able to think "Ah yes! Finally, I'm asleep. I've been trying forever." You just have your dream or not, I feel like we don't dream every night (but I may be wrong), and wake up and remember it (or not lol). It's just laying there in bed -then waking up there in bed.
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at this point I have class in 4 hours then spring break starts, but the adderall got me losing my train of thought, while simultaneously enabling me to be this deep lol
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Returning to my original curiosity, It seems like everytime I get way excess sleep, I wake up feeling not horrible, but not good, not tired, but not energized.
Not sure if this is because the sleep cycle happened to many times (average 8hr night you will go thru sleep cycle 4-5 times),
but the lesson is over-indulging or too much of even good thing in life can be bad, maybe even the reason gluttony isn't good for you.
(b/c why else would God say filling your belly isn't very becoming lmao)
