Can You Tell Me Some Facts About Sleep?

If you are an adult you need 6 to 8 hours of sleep,to much or to less could be bad for your body;if you are a kid then you need 10 to 12 hours of sleep.

The longest time anyone ever stayed awake was for eighteen days, twenty one hours and forty minutes, during a rocking chair competition.  The winner reported some very strange hallucinations and extreme paranoia.

No one knows if pets dream, but my dog always seems to be chasing cats around the garden in his sleep!

If you have three or four bad nights of sleep, three drinks of alcohol will have the same effect on your body as six would normally!

Sleep science has only really taken off in the last twenty five years.

People's 'natural' alarm clock is caused by a stress hormone which bursts them awake due to the stress of thinking that they might over sleep.

One in six road accidents involve fatigue

One third of your life is spent asleep!

People who work shift patterns experience a kind of jet lag effect on their bodies due to the changing of shift and sleep patterns.