SLEEP TRIVIA’S

Facts you might not know yet about sleep.

1.) Sleep deprivation produces higher levels of corticosterone, a stress hormone and fewer brain cells are produced. Also the nerve cell production (neurogenesis) is severely disturbed and may be what produces the cognitive deficits with people with prolonged sleep deprivation. It seems that the body processes sugar while in deep sleep, if you don't sleep well, sugar levels in your body will rise dramatically.

2.) Sleep strengthens memory and extracts information from within the day, sleep actually "extracts the meaning of your day", on some experiments people do better a task after going to sleep, the brain categorizes the information of the day.

3.) Daytime naps improve memory! It also helps you remember important facts.Naps also cut risk of heart disease.

4.) People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it. A Catnap is a short sleep (usually not in bed)

5. The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

6.) Ducks at risk of attack by predators are able to balance the need for sleep and survival, keeping one half of the brain awake while the other slips into sleep mode.

7.) When you sleep, you shed off dead skin cells which may sustain 100,000 to 10 million dust mites that can live in your bed. Dust mites may cause itchiness but not harmful to your health.

8.) People who are born blind can still dream and it’s called auditory dreams that are coupled with the feeling of emotion and movement.

9.) When ask if deaf people can hear on their dreams, the answer is yes. Deaf people can establish an auditory inner voice because of the brain’s ability to develop phonological representations, though these sounds may be different than what noises really sounds like.

10.) Children wet the bed when sleeping not because of emotional problems or faulty kidneys, but simply because their bladders are still too small to hold the amount of urine their bodies make overnight. Also a lot of children are heavy sleepers, so they may not yet be able to wake up when it’s time to go the bathroom.

11.) Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

12.) Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.

13.) People who sleep more than 9 hours a day are more likely to develop Parkinson. Sleeping over nine hours per night (for an adult) is just as bad as sleeping 6 or less.

14.) The body language of sleep positions reflects your personality traits.

15.) The most common emotions experienced in dreams are anxiety and fear.