Sleep and Dreaming Facts
1. You have no sense of smell when you’re sleeping.
2. You burn more calories while sleeping than you do when watching
television.
3. Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life
expectancy.
4. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that
you’ll have a bad dream.
5. Babies start dreaming even before they’re born.
6. The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first
trimester are frogs, worms and potted plants.
7. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.
8. You can go without eating for weeks without succumbing, but eleven
days is tops for going without sleep.
10. When we go to sleep and enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement),our bodies
become completely paralyzed as areas of the brain that control movement are
de-activated.
11. An average person has over 1,460 dreams a year which is about 4
dreams every night.
12. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
13. By 60 years of age, 60% of men and 40% of women will snore.
14. The human body releases growth hormones during sleep.
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