Dr. Michael Grandner

Um, if you're 20, it's, you know, I'm not saying more is always better, but too much is very rarely a problem.

Um,

for adolescents and young adults.

There is such thing as too much sleep, especially as you get older.

And if you've ever like slept 10 hours in a row and woken up feeling groggy, they call it the Rip Van Winkle effect.

You know, like it's a real thing.

You can't oversleep, but it's kind of hard for a 20 year old to oversleep.

I mean, there've been studies where you take, where they're already sleeping maybe six, seven hours.

If you get them up to like nine, 10 hours, they're faster, they're stronger, they're mentally sharper.

So, first of all, just sleeping a little bit more if you're younger, that's probably the easiest thing you can do.

And that's about budgeting time.

And that's about planning your wind down routine so that you land where you want to land when you want to land there.

So it might be thinking a little ahead and giving yourself permission to put stuff down.

Yeah.

So like when, when, when a typical adult looks at a clock and sees midnight clock says midnight, their body says midnight.

When a five-year-old looks at a clock clock says midnight, their body's like, oh my gosh, it's three o'clock in the morning.

Why are you awake?

Right.

Little kids go to bed early, wake up early.

When an 18-year-old looks at a clock, clock says midnight, their body is like, it's only 9 p.m.