Sleep Facts

Tags: Napping, Sleep, Brain, Interesting, Health, Human Body

Fact Page: Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
Date Added: 2012-04-01 19:10:03
Fact Category: Health Fact

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
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Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

Tags: Dream, Sleep, Interesting, Fascinating, Human

Fact Page: You forget 90% of your dreams.
Date Added: 2012-02-29 14:32:29
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Fatigue, Sleep, Tiredness, Water, Interesting, Health

Fact Page: Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Date Added: 2011-04-19 02:41:04
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Cat, Feline, Kitten, Growth, Hormone, Sleep, Animal

Fact Page: One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
Date Added: 2011-04-09 14:28:56
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Before you curl up in bed tonight and doze off peacefully, here's some eye-opening news to ponder: Nightmares, at least among young adults, apparently occur more than twice as often as scientists previously thought. Furthermore, emotionally stable people have about the same number of nightmares as highly anxious individuals.

The researchers defined a nightmare as "a dream that frightens the dreamer," thus excluding some upsetting or sad dreams some view as nightmares, Wood says. Nearly 47 percent of the students reported at least one nightmare in their dream logs. Based on the logs, the estimated average annual number of nightmares for each student totaled 24 - about 2-1/2 times the annual frequency estimated from the retrospective reports.

Tags: Nightmare, Dream, Sleep

Fact Page: 47% of people have a nightmare at least once a month.
Date Added: 2011-03-09 22:00:31
Fact Category: People Fact

Tags: Sleep, Television, TV, Calories, Weight, Fat, Exercise

Fact Page: You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Date Added: 2011-02-07 08:30:07
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Honey Bee, Bee, Sleep, Bug

Fact Page: Honeybees never sleep.
Date Added: 2010-11-07 16:59:29
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: People, Sleep, Average

Fact Page: The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Date Added: 2010-01-11 20:24:05
Fact Category: People Fact