is too much sleep bad for you?

I think that there is something to this. I think that getting too much sleep will actually have the reverse affect. Instead of making us rested, it tends to make us a bit more tired. Or at least that is what sleep tends to do to me. There is always too much of a good thing and while there are days where we would want to get into bed, there is really no way that we should. So yeah, it makes your body more fatigued. It would be the opposite effect that one would think. I think past the recommended eight hours, unless you are ill, it is a bit excessive to sleep that long. Too much or too little sleep will lead to a lot of tiredness and irritable moods. Therefore it is going to lead to some trouble and some misery.

yes too much sleeping does have bad effects. Especially when you sleep in the morning and not at night, it disrupts your biological clock and cycle. It makes you more sluggish when you wake up. That's a common problem with call center agents on graveyard shifts. They sleep in the morning, but they don't really get rested, so the tendency is for them to oversleep. Basically what happens to them is that they just eat and sleep, no exercise, no other body activity, which lowers your immune system in the long run makes you sickly and always tired.

I've read that oversleeping does have some adverse effects on our body. It may cause medical problems such as heart disease and diabetes. Check an article about this on WebMD. www.web.webmd.com.