{"id":27,"date":"2023-05-09T06:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sensa.health\/?p=27"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:49:40","slug":"17-things-you-didnt-know-about-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sensa.health\/blog\/17-things-you-didnt-know-about-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sleep is one of the most important parts of our life. In fact, it\u2019s as important as eating, drinking, and breathing<\/a>, having a big impact on our health and helping us recover from mental and physical exertion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We get it; when you\u2019re stressed about something, it can be difficult to sleep because it sometimes seems like you\u2019re just downing tools and wasting time, especially when you lie awake for hours without dropping off. But the truth is that your body and brain need sleep, and if you skip it or don\u2019t get enough, then you can\u2019t perform at your best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as important as sleep is, we\u2019re not here to tell you to get more of it, because if anything, that will just make you feel worse. Instead, let\u2019s take a look at 17 fun facts about sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Scientists don\u2019t actually know why we sleep.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. 12% of people dream in black and white, and the rest of us dream in color, but before color TV, 85% of people dreamed in black and white.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. People sleep better during a new moon and worse during a full moon, although no one knows why.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Human beings can sleep with their eyes open.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. According to NASA, the perfect nap lasts for 26 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Humans are the only mammals that willingly delay sleep.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. You can only dream about faces that you\u2019ve already seen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. The fear of falling asleep is called somniphobia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Staying awake for 16 hours straight has the same impact on your performance as a blood alcohol level of 0.05% (which is nearly the legal limit for a DUI).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Giraffes only need 1.9 hours of sleep a day, but brown bats need over ten times as much \u2013 19.9 hours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. There are fewer road traffic accidents the day that daylight savings time ends because everyone has an extra hour of sleep.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. It\u2019s impossible to sneeze while sleeping.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Most people burn more calories while sleeping than they do watching television.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. You\u2019ll spend about 6 years of your life dreaming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. People who suffer from depression dream as much as 3\u20134 times more than other people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Almost everything we know about sleep was discovered within the last 30 years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. You forget half of your dreams within 5 minutes of waking up and 90% of them within 10.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Sweet dreams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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