{"id":9395,"date":"2015-11-28T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2015-11-28T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:42:03","slug":"9395","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=9395","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

16 Amazing Things You Didn’t Know About Sleep. #5 Is Terrifying.<\/h1>\n

Sleep is absolutely essential for every human being. Despite scientists still not figuring out the process entirely, we still know a lot about this daily activity. Every mammal, bird and most reptiles, amphibians and fish require sleep to function. Here are 16 things you probably never knew about sleep.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. We can only dream about faces we have already seen, whether we actively remember them or not.<\/li>\n
  2. When dolphins sleep, only half their brain shuts down. The other half stays awake to help with breathing cycles.<\/li>\n
  3. Men have dreams about other men 70% of the time. But women dream about women and men equally.<\/li>\n
  4. While you are sleeping your body recharges, your cells repair themselves, and your body releases important hormones.<\/li>\n
  5. Parasomnia is a type of sleep disorder that makes you do unnatural movements despite being asleep. Crimes committed on parasomnia include: sleep driving, writing bad cheques, murder, child molesting and sexual assault.<\/li>\n
  6. 12% of people dream only in black and white. This number used to be higher but since the advent of color television, more people dream in color than before.<\/li>\n
  7. Dreaming is normal. People who do not dream generally have personality disorders.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Sleep positions may determine your personality.<\/li>\n
  9. \u00a01 in 4 married couples sleep in separate beds.<\/li>\n
  10. British soldiers were the first to develop a method in staying up 36 hours without sleep. When fatigued, they put on special visors that emulated the brightness of a sunrise and it woke them up.<\/li>\n
  11. Longest sleeping mammals are koalas (22 hours) and the shortest sleeping are giraffes (1.9 hours taken in 5-10 minute sessions).<\/li>\n
  12. You need different amounts of sleep depending on your age. Babies need the most (16 hours) and people over 65 need the least (6 hours).<\/li>\n
  13. You’ll die from sleep deprivation before food deprivation. It takes 2 weeks to starve, but 10 days without sleep can kill you.<\/li>\n
  14. Blind people can still see images in dreams. Those born blind experience dreams involving emotion, sound, smell, and touch instead of sight.<\/li>\n
  15. Within 5 minutes of waking up, 50% of your dream is forgotten. Within 10 minutes, 90% is gone.<\/li>\n
  16. 1 out of 50 teenagers still wet their beds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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