12 Interesting Trivia You May Not Know About Sleep



1. People can take catnaps “with their eyes open” without even being aware of it.

2. During deep sleep, we are almost completely paralysed. The only parts of our bodies not affected by this paralysis are the muscles of the intestines, diaphragm, blood, eyes, and heart.

3. It is not known if animals can also dream. There is no way we can determine this since animals cannot communicate and directly tell us if they dream or not!

4. An average person spends about 6 years dreaming (2 hours every night) in his/her lifetime. On the other hand, 1/3 of our lives are spent sleeping.

5. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half of it is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% of the dream is forgotten.

6. For adults, sleeping more than 9 hours every night is just as bad as sleeping 6 hours or less.

7. The average dream lasts about 10 to 15 minutes.

8. Our brains are more active when sleeping than when watching television.

9. In Portugal, 75% of the population stay up until past midnight. This is so far the highest percentage of any country in the world.

10. Seven of the top 10 nocturnal areas are in Asia, led by Taiwan, where 69% of people sleep after midnight.

11. Japanese people sleep less than anyone else on the world. 41% of the population sleep just 6 hours or less every night.

12. In the world, people who go to bed the earliest and sleep the longest are in Australia. Nearly one-fourth of the population in Australia go to bed by 10 PM, while 31% get to sleep for more than 9 hours every night.


About the author:
Junji Takano is a Japanese health researcher involved in
investigating the cause of many dreadful diseases. In 1968,
he invented PYRO-ENERGEN, the first electrostatic therapy
device for electromedicine that effectively eradicates viral
diseases, cancer, and diseases of unknown cause.