- Not getting enough sleep can cause weight gain because your leptin levels (the hormone that regulates appetite) fall, making you feel hungrier throughout the day.
- After extensive research, scientists have determined counting sheep doesn’t work.
- Sleep is essential to the healthy functioning of your immune system.
- You will spend a third of your life sleeping and six years of your life dreaming.
- It should take you 10-15 minutes to fall asleep.
- You can’t sneeze in your sleep.
- Your sleeping position is directly linked to your personality.
- Sleeping on your front can help with digestion.
- Before the introduction of color tv, 75% of people dreamed in black and white!
- Humans are the only mammals that can override their body and delay sleep.
- Sleep deprivation will get you before food deprivation does.
- Within 10 minutes of waking up, 90% of your dreams are forgotten.
- For reasons unknown, people get less sleep on and around the full moon.
- 30% of Americans get less than 7 hours of sleep a night, which can cause a host of illnesses.
- According to NASA, the perfect nap lasts 26 minutes.
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