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by
WarWizard
Sun Apr 17 2005 at 7:27:11
Some Sleep Facts
Your heart can stop beating for as long as 9 seconds while you’re
asleep
.
Sleep deprivation
lasting more than 48 hours typically causes
hallucinations
and
psychosis
.
The world record for going without sleep is 11 days (264 hours and 12 minutes) a feat considered extremely dangerous by sleep researchers.
30 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders. Most men begin having problems falling asleep in their mid-twenties; women have the same difficulty during their mid-forties.
While normal sleepers change body positions about 30 times per night,
insomniacs
may toss and turn more than 100 times.
Dream sleep has been observed in all animals studied except the spiny
anteater
.
Sleep studies show that if your sleeping partner is absent in your sleep, you’ll almost always mover over to the side the
bed
normally occupied by him or her. (I know for a fact I do.)
An afternoon
nap
is healthy. One study indicates that afternoon
nappers
are 30 percent less likely to suffer
coronary artery disease
, although the reasons behind this are not yet known.
Humans stay awake much longer than many animals. Bats, cats, porcupines, lions, gorillas, and opossums sleep 18 to 20 hours a day, and some woodchucks
snooze
for as long as 22 hours.
Pigeons frequently open their eyes during sleep to watch for
predators
. The dolphin, remarkably, only “half” sleeps: its brain shuts down only one
hemisphere
at a time.
Horses and rats
dream
20 percent of the time during sleep. Cows kept in barns dream 40 minutes per night, while cows sleeping in meadows dream only half as much.
http://abc.net.au/science/sleep/default.htm
http://www.prescriptionforsleep.com/index.html
http://www.brpt.org/sleep_facts.htm
and research I did for a college course
Reasons why you need at least 5 hours of sleep
Sleep cycle strategies
Sleep deprivation
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping
lack of sleep
BOFH
human sleep cycle
Reading in a dream
Mountain Dew
microsleep
sleep debt
What happens when we die?
hypnagogic hallucination
sleep paralysis
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Insomnia
The shortest hour known to man
Evolution of sleep
Incubus
hypnagogic state
Jolt Cola
sleep hyperhidrosis
Sleep and Memory