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SLEEP FACTS:
Here is some sleep trivia, ranging from fairly interesting to down-right fascinating, for your amusement.
- Sleep experts say that counting sleep may actually contribute to sleeplessness rather than entice sleep.
- The average adult requires between 7-9 hours of sleep each night.
- Contrary to what may seem logical, vigorous exercising late in the evening raises certain hormone levels, along with your body temperature, both of which make falling asleep more difficult.
- Prior to the invention of the light bulb, people slept on average for 10 hours a night. Today, people average 6-7 hours of sleep per night.
- More than 18 million people suffer from sleep apnea, a breathing disorder in which there are actual lapses in breathing as a person sleeps.
- Approximately 100,000 car crashes are caused each year by drowsy drivers. These accidents result in more than 1,500 fatalities.
- The quality of your sleep is just as important as getting the right amount of sleep.
- About 40% of adults snore.
- A cat sleeps about 12 hours a day.
- A dog sleeps between 10 and 11 hours daily.
- A giraffe sleeps only about 2 hours each day.
- A person will actually die from a lack of sleep before they would from starvation. Starvation would take about two weeks whereas a lack of sleep would prove fatal after only 10 days.
- Charles Dickens suffered from insomnia.
- You actually burn more calories sleeping than you do watching tv. (We're still trying to figure out the "whys" of this one!)
- We spend one third of our life sleeping.
- Leonardo da Vinci slept only 15 minutes every four hours, around the clock.
- There's something to be said for burning the midnight oil. Research proves that what we learn right before going to sleep is actually remembered longer than what we learn at any other time.
- On a typical night, it takes the typical person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
- The temperature of your room has an effect on your dreams. The colder the room, the worse the dreams.
- The average person has five dreams a night.
- Washington Irving wrote "Rip Van Winkle", the story of a man who slept for twenty years.
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