Interesting Facts About Sleep

There are so many interesting facts about sleep but very few of them are known to everyone so, here is the list of some amazing, unheard fact of sleep, which is related to different countries, animals, conditions and scientific terms: 

 

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1) Just as diet and exercise are important for our body. Similarly, sleep is equally important for us.

2) New born babies usually sleep for about 8 to 9 hours a day and 8 hours at night. But babies wake-up again after some time, because their stomach is small, and it fills up quickly and empties. As a result, they feel hungry again after some time, and they wake-up.

3) Horses, zebras and elephants sleep in standing position. The cow can also sleep in standing position, but she mostly likes to lie down and sleep.

4) Man is the only mammal, which can delay sleep as he wishes. The rest of the other animals do not have that much control on their sleep.

5) It has been seen many times that sleeplessness is a major problem in divorced, break-up and separated people.

6) In general, a healthy person needs at least 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night and young children need even more sleep. If we talk about old people, they also need at least 7 hours of sleep.

7) Our body naturally becomes tired at two different times. It is around 2:00 AM and 2:00 PM. According to WebMD’s sleep expert Michael J, your body temperature starts falling just before bedtime.

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8) Leptin levels fall in people who do not sleep well. Leptin is a hormone that lowers the level of hunger. Decreased leptin levels increase appetite.

9) Hormones called melatonin are present in our body, which control the sleep and waking process. When we sleep in a dark room, our body produces more melatonin hormone. Winter is a dark time. That is why our body produces more melatonin in winter. This is why we get more sleep during the winter.

10) An average person sleeps for about 26 years throughout his life span. Which equals approximately 9490 days or 227760 hours.

11) We dream while sleeping, but there are some people who never have dreams after sleeping.

12) Sleep paralysis is a disease. In which the person is unable to wake up from sleep and speak. In this situation, he starts imagining the imaginary object as a real object.

13) The dolphin sleeps with only one eye closed. They get sleep in the right half of the brain, and the left eye remains closed. This type of sleep is known as unihemispheric sleep

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14) The rabbit sleeps with his eyes open. Therefore it is quite difficult to tell whether he is awake or sleeping. The plunk of a sleeping rabbit slows down and his nose stops wagging. The fish also does not close its eyes while sleeping. The simple reason for this is that they do not have eyelashes.

15) More than 8% of people in the US sleep without clothes. Sleeping without clothes improves our blood circulation. Which is good for our heart and muscles.

 

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16) If you are sneezing, you cannot sleep. Or just say, you can't sneeze while sleeping. Because when you sleep, then the veins associated with sneezing are also in a state of rest. That is why you do not sneeze during sleep.

17) 80% of people had black and white dreams before color TV’s are available in market. So, the technology has a big impact on our dreams.

18) The largest record of sleeping without sleep is 264 hours or 11 days. In 1965, Randy Gardner, a 17 year old high school student, made this record.

19) A snail can sleep for about 3 years.

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20) Sea otter hold each other's hands while sleeping. So that they don't get separated from each other.

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