Interesting facts about Sleep you must know
What goes on when we sleep :
- Our brain recharges
- Our cells repair themselves
- Our body releases important hormones
Amount of Sleep :
We need different amounts of sleep depending of sleep depending on our age :
- Babies : 16 hours
- 3 to 12 : 10 hours
- 13 to 18 : 10 hours
- 19 to 55 : 8 hours
- Over 56 : 6 hours
Men Vs Women :
- Men have dreams about other men 70% of the time,
- but Women dream about women and men equally :
We dreams about :
We can only dream about faces we have already seen, whether we actively remember them or not :
Sleep disorder :
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
12% of people dream only in black and white :
This number used to be higher since the
advent of color television, more people dream in color than before.
Dreaming is normal :
People who do not dream generally have
personality disorder
Sleeping positions :
Sleeping positions may determine your
personality :
Check these most common positions
Married couples :
1 in 4 married couples sleep in separate
beds :
Staying up without sleep :
British soldiers were the first to
develop a method in 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.
You will die from sleep deprivation before food deprivation :
Blind people can still see images in dreams :
Those born blind experience dreams
involving: emotion, sound, smell and touch instead of sight.
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