sleep fact

Sleep can be defined as the resting state in which the body is inactive and the mind is unconscious.

1. The longest sleepless record was 18 days, 12 hours and 40 minutes in a marathon. The record holder reported that he had hallucination (saw or heard  invincible things), paranoia, loss of sight, blurred speech and loss of focus and memory.
2. Newborn babies usually make their parents loss between 400 to 750 hours during the first year
3. Nobody can confirm if animal’s dream in their sleep, but some animals have similar sleep cycle as human
4. Being awake for 17 hours nonstop will make someone have a performance level of a person will 0.05 percent alcohol level in their body.
5. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989, the Challenger space shuttle tragedy and Chernobyl nuclear accident – related to lacks of sleep on human
6. The expert estimate that exhausting was the main reason for one in every deadly road accidents
7. In average, human sleeps less 3 hours compared to animals like chimpanzee, monkeys and baboons which sleep 10 hours per day
8. Animals like ducks were able to balance their sleeps and survive from predators. They can split half of their brains to stay awake while the other half sleeps.
9. 10% of those whose swore in their sleep suffer from sleep apnoea – a problem which will make the sufferer stop breathing up to 300 times a night and increase the risk of heart attack or stroke.
10. Teen ages must sleep like a child which is amount 10 hours per day, while those who are 65 years and above need around6 hours a day. Elder person between the age of 25-55 years, need around 8 hours.
11. A research shows that women need an hour more sleep than men. Lack of an hour sleep was believed the main problem of depression among women than men.
12. Experts says that the main factor which make human sleep less is because of the 24 hours Internet facility