Random Sleep Facts

    42 facts tagged with Sleep Facts

    Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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    Hugging your pillow while sleeping indicates that you miss someone
    Pillow hugging while sleeping is a subconscious indication that you miss someone.
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    Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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    The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.
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    A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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    A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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    Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
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