Facts About Sleep -Hattie Milligan

•      If it takes you less than five minutes to fall asleep, then you are probably sleep deprived. It should take you around ten to fifteen minutes to fall asleep.
•      Humans are the only mammals that willingly delay falling asleep.
•          Stress, physical illness, mental illness, living or sleeping arrangements, family history, diet habits, and exercise habits can cause insomnia.
•          Being awake for sixteen hours straight decreases your performance as much as if your blood alcohol level were .05%.
•          Going without sleep could make you hungry.
•          You are more likely to gain weight if you are sleep deprived.
•          Regular exercise usually improves your sleep patterns. Exercising sporadically or right before bed may make you have a harder time going to sleep.
•          One of the biggest distractions that keep us from falling asleep is the internet. This one is pretty obvious.
•          Whales and dolphins literally fall half asleep. Each side of their brains takes turns so they can come up for air.
•          Humans spend about a third of their life sleeping. That is about twenty-five years.
•          Parents of new babies miss out on about six months of sleep in their baby’s first two years of life.
•          The record for the longest period without sleep is eleven days.
•          Sleeping less than seven hours a night reduces life expectancy.
•          A snail can sleep up to three years.
•          Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan. They view it as exhaustion from working so hard
•          Cats sleep about 70% of their lives.
•           Horses can sleep when they are standing up.
•           Later school start times improve sleep and daytime functioning in teens.
•           You burn more calories sleeping than you do while watching television.
•      Women experience significantly more nightmares than men do and have more emotional dreams.
•        Giraffes only need five to thirty minutes of sleep in a twenty-four hour period.
•           Koalas sleep up to twenty hours a day.
•            The chances of us eating even one spider in our sleep throughout our whole lifetime is very close to 0%.
•       While you sleep, your brain filters out noises that might wake you up if it doesn’t think that you are in danger.