Interesting Facts About Sleep

 Sleep is something a lot of us think we know much about.Most of the things we know about sleep are based on what we experience ourselves.  We know these five letter words to be something we do regularly to relax.But there are some interesting facts we all have to know about ''sleep''. I just can't keep this knowledge to myself because my hands itches me to share this knowledge with someone because sleep is what we all love to do and as a hobby to some of us. Relax and catch the fun by reading some new and interesting facts about ''sleep''. Let's go there!!

1.The record for the longest period of time without sleep stands at 264.4 hours and was set by a high school student in 1964.

2. Sleeping on your front can aid digestion

3. If it takes you less than 5 minutes to fall asleep at night, you are sleep deprived.  On average, it takes people between 10 and 15 minutes to fall asleep.  If you are falling asleep faster than that it means you are overtired.

4. Humans are the only mammals that willingly delay sleep.

5. Doctors didn’t discover REM (rapid eye movement) sleep until the 1950’s and this discovery was a leap forward in sleep science.

6.Although there are several stages of sleep we do not progress through them in order while asleep.  Most people will initially move from stage 1 to stage 4 in order the first time, they will then jump back and forth between them.

7.Newborn babies spend amount 65% of their sleep in REM.

8.Although scientists used to believe that we only dreamt while in REM, new research indicates that we may actually be dreaming the entire time we are asleep.

9. Those born blind experience dreams involving things such as emotion, sound and smell rather than sight.

10. Sleep deprivation will kill you more quickly than food deprivation.

11. 1 in 4 married couples sleep in separate beds.

12. The sensation of falling when half asleep and jerking yourself awake is called ‘hypnic jerks’

13. Dysania is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.

14. Rates of insomnia increase as a function of age, but most often the sleep disturbance is attributable to some other medical condition.

15. Two thirds of a cat’s life is spent asleep