True or False: Oversleeping Makes You More Tired

Does too much sleep make you more tired than just enough sleep? That’s the question put, by a reader of the New York Times, to that newspaper’s science answer person, C. Claiborne Ray, who passes to Dr. Charles P. Pollak, director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weil Cornell Medical Center.  The short answer, Pollack says, is "possibly," but the doctor suggest that oversleeping to the detriment of one’s health is unlikely. “There is such a thing as being sleep-deprived,” he tells the Times. “But as
far as we know, there is no such thing as being wake-deprived. If you
awake feeling refreshed, that is how much sleep you actually require.”
Read more in the New York Times.