10 Fun Facts About Sleep You Didn’t Know

To commence with 10 Fun Facts about Sleep You didn’t know, let’s see what is sleep. Sleep is a typically repetitive condition of mind and body, identified by altered alertness, comparatively reserved sensory activity, decreased muscle activity and reservation of almost all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and limited interactions with the environment.

So, Here are, 10 Fun Facts About Sleep You Didn’t Know:

Number 10: when you are snoring, you can’t dream,

Number 9: on average, a person spends nearly six years dreaming during sleep,

Number 8: while sleeping dolphins keep half of their brain awake this
sleep behavior helps them guard against predators

Number 7: a study done by Xu Yan University in Hong Kong shows that your sleep positions can affect, the kinds of dreams you have. According to the study, people who slept on their stomachs had more dreams related to sex than people who slept on their back or their side,

Number 6: different species of animals have varied sleep requirements
for instance, a giraffe only needs 2 hours of sleep, on the other end, bats sleep for nearly 80% of their lives,

Number 5: do you know that there is a sleep disorder called sleeping beauty syndrome? Those suffering from this disorder sleep up to 20 hours a day, unfortunately, its symptoms can last for days or even months,

Number 4: according to historian Roger Eckrich, in the past, it was normal, to get to interval sleep cycles one in the early evening, a break, and, then a second later at night. Historical documents support this, as there are references to neighbors visiting each other in the middle of two periods of sleep. Also, doctors suggest couples conceive a baby after the first sleep,

Number 3: according to a 2011 research study, the average USA worker loses approximately eleven points three days each year in productivity due to insomnia, causing the collective loss of around 63 points two billion dollars to USA employers

Number 2: some researchers believe that those who stay awake late at night are more likely to have higher IQs than those who fall asleep early and,

Number 1: elephants stand during non-rem sleep, however, as soon as they slip into REM sleep, they lie down.

Hope this article was informative and interesting!

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