SLEEPING FACTS

16 Things You Didn't Know About Sleep

1. What goes on when you sleep:    • Your brain recharges    • Your cells repair themselves    • Your body releases important hormones

2. You need different amounts of sleep depending on your age:    • Babies -> 16 hours    • 3 – 12 years -> 10 hours    • 13 – 18 years -> 10 hours    • 19 – 55 years -> 8 hours    • Over 65 years -> 6 hours

3. Men have dreams about other men 70% of the time.    But women dream about women and men equally.

4. We can only dream about faces we have already seen,     whether we actively remember them or not.

5. Parasomnia is a type of sleep disorder that makes you do     unnatural movements, despite being asleep. Crimes committed on    parasomnia include:   • Sleep driving   • Writing bad checks   • Murder   • Child molesting   • Rape

6. 12% of people dream only in black and white.    This number used to be higher but since the advent of color television,    more people dream in color than before.

7. Dreaming is normal. People who do not dream     generally have personality disorders.

8. Sleep positions may determine your personality.
    The most common positions are:    a) Fetal (41%) – People are gruff initially but have warm and open hearts    b) Log (15%) – Social butterflies    c) The Yearner (13%) – Perceived as open, but truly suspicious    d) Soldier (8%) – Reserved    e) Freefall (7%) – Fun and fantastic at parties    f) Starfish (5%) – Excellent listeners

9. 1 in 4 married couples sleep in separate beds.

10. British soldiers were the first to develop a method of staying up      36 hours without sleep. When fatigued, they put on special visors      that emulated the brightness of a sunrise and it woke them up. 

11. Longest sleeping mammals:     • Koalas – 22 hours a day     • Brown Bat – 19.9 hours a day     • Pangolins – 18 hours a day    Shortest sleeping mammals:    • Giraffes – 1.9 hours a day (in 5 to 10-minute sessions)    • Roe Deer – 3.09 hours a day    • Asiatic Elephant – 3.0 hours a day

12. When dolphins sleep,only half their brain shutdown.       The other half stays awake to help with breathing cycles.

13. You’ll die from sleep deprivation before food depravation.       It takes 2 weeks to starve, but 10 days without sleep can kill you.

14. Blind people can still see images in dreams.      Those born blind experience dreams involving      emotion, sound, smell, and touch instead of sight.

15. Within 5 minutes of waking up, 50% of your dream is forgotten.      Within 10 minutes, 90% is gone.

16. 1 out 50 teenagers still wet their beds.