25 rare facts about your sleep
We spend a third of our lives doing it yet we still don't completely understand this bizarre ritual we carried out each night you lie down your body goes unconscious you see the weirdest pictures in your head and then wake up only to repeat the whole process the next day. Sleep is funny and here's the proof like I said you spend a third of your life that's about 25 years if you were doing the maths.
We also spend seven years of our life trying to fall asleep. Everybody thinks you need eight hours of sleep each night but your sleep hour requirement changes throughout your life.
1. Children need 10-12 hours
2. Teens need 8-11
3. Adults need 7-8
4. Seniors need six-seven.
Now good sleep is necessary for effective work and productivity but good doesn't necessarily mean law some famous historical figures very little from 2-4 hours and this didn't prevent them from doing great things Da Vinci, Franklin, Tesla, Churchill and that's not all there's a sleep mutation that allows a person to sleep just 2-6 hours and not experience any side effects now if you have a dog or cat then you might have noticed that they make funny sounds while they are sleeping.
Yes, they do dream and experts aren't quite sure why or what they say. Temperature is a critical part of sleep and possibly dreams if your room is too or hot it can trigger nightmares like you are in a cramped space or fire. Some great discoveries were found thanks to dreams.
For example, Mendeleev created the periodic table after he dreamed about it this happens because our brain processes and analyses all the events we experience throughout the day many experts believe this is why we dream in the first place.
By the way, I love hearing dream stories what's one dream you remember the most or maybe have regularly let me know in the comments and on to that weird sudden twitch your body might do as you are falling asleep this happens because the brain sends impulses to the muscles it's called a hypnic jerk.
But why does the brain do it? Nobody knows for sure our brain shuts off all our muscles when we sleep this is so that you don't run away in real life as you are dreaming about running away from some pursuer but the brain doesn't shut off the eye muscles which is why your eyes can move and they do during the deepest part of sleep a stage called REM or rapid eye movement.
But what if your brain wakes up and your body muscles are still disabled this condition is called sleep paralysis. Many people have experienced it at least once in their life and those same people say it's far from pleasant sleep and reality are mixed in this state and individuals can't see hallucinations babies dream in the womb but there are no visual images in these dreams only tactile and auditory sensations.
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