Check out these 23 REAL FACTS about sleep!

So today we'll be looking at some few facts about SLEEP, LOL! the facts about sleep that you didn't know, most of what we know about sleeps were discovered on the past 25 years, putting that aside lets jump into these 23 real FACTS about sleep, if you've been taking sleep serious i urge you to start!

1. Sleep deprivation will kill you more quickly than food deprivation.

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2. Neither are good for you, obviously, but this article claims that sleep is actually more important than food in the short term.

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3. After an additional 5 minutes, 90% of recollection is gone. Sigmund Freud believed this was because dreams represent our repressed thoughts and so our brain wants to get rid of them quickly. However, it’s much more likely due to our brains simply being used much more as soon as we’re awake and so we forget much of what we’ve dreamed about.

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4. Research says that you will sleep better at new moon and sleep worse during a full moon.

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5. If it takes you 5 minutes to fall asleep at night, you are probably sleep deprived, normally falling asleep should take 10 to 15 minutes.

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6. Did you know that sea otters holds hand when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other? Well now you know!

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7. Tiredness peaks twice a day, at 2 a.m. an 2 p.m. That's why you are less alert after lunch.

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8. Did you know that we are the only mammals that delay sleeps on our own accord?

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9. One of our biggest sleep distractions is 24-hour internet access.

10. Today, 75% of us dream in color. Before color television, just 15 percent of us did.

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11. Regular exercise usually improves your sleep patterns. Exercising sporadically or right before bed may keep you up.

12. Some car rental contracts make you promise not to drive on fewer than 6 hours of sleep.

13. Insomnia is often a normal part of grieving. Taking sleep pills can disturb this natural process.

14. Did you know that even sleeping in job isn't viewed as a problem, companies might accept it as a sign of exhaustion from overwork, but some people fake it these days lol!

15. One job in early English mill and factory towns was to knock on people's windows to wake them up for work.

16. Chances of having traffic accident is high when daylight savings time ends. Research shows that the extra hour for sleep reduces accidents.

17. Being awake for 16 hours straight decreases your performance as much as if your blood alcohol level were 05%

18. In general, most healthy adults need seven to nine hours of sleep a night. However, some individuals are able to function without sleepiness or drowsiness after as little as six hours of sleep. Others can’t perform at their peak unless they’ve slept ten hours.

19. There are individual differences in the need to nap. Some adults and children need to nap. However, the majority of teenagers probably nap in the afternoon because they are not sleeping enough at night

20. It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.

21. REM dreams are characterised by bizarre plots, but non-REM dreams are repetitive and thought-like, with little imagery - obsessively returning to a suspicion you left your mobile phone somewhere, for example.

22. Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.