Interesting Facts About Sleeping
Here at Click 4 Beds we all enjoy sleeping, that’s why we work at a bed company! Here are some interesting facts about sleep that we’ve found for you to ponder.
- REM is ‘rapid eye movement’ and it happens when our eyes move under our eye lids and it is our deepest of sleep
- REM sleep starts once we have been asleep for about 90 minutes and it comes in random bursts during the night, in totally approximately two hours
- During REM sleep, we are pretty much paralysed, apart from our heart, diaphragm, intestine muscles, blood and eyes
- We sleep for around 1/3 of our lives
- We sleep for around six years or 2,100 days of our lives
- The world record for the longest time without sleep is 18 hours, 21 days and 40 minutes
- You should fall to sleep within 10 to 15 minutes of trying
- We sleep on average three hours less than other primates
- Teenagers and babies require 10 hours of sleep a night, adults need eight hours and seniors only need six hours
- We can take a short nap with our eyes open
- The saying ‘good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite’ originates from Shakespeare times when mattresses were filled with straw and secured on bed frames by ropes
You may have learnt something interesting about sleep from reading this article and maybe it will come in handy for a pub quiz!
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