Studies in sleep – conclusions drawn from blogs this week
Now that we have introduced you to the common sleep factor problems students encounter and the potential solutions to them Millbrook Contract Beds would like to lend itself to recommendations on how student residences and students houses can help in their ongoing battle with optimising sleep – our answer is academic contract beds.
Of course, sometimes its not up to the individual student and mostly down to landlords and residential lettings in terms of bed quality but as a student you have a right to demand a decent bed. Just because they’ve given you some dust-mite ridden ten year old mattress and cheap wooden slat base doesn’t mean you can’t demand better.
Our recommendations are that you select genuine academic contract beds intended for the very purpose of making your sleeping life easier and effortless. Millbrook specialise in contract beds that are handmade to create the ultimate in luxury sleep. Our 60 years experience has given us the blueprint from which to base our incomparable designs. When it comes to the comfort needs of the academic industry we offer our Academic Collection.
The Campus
The Campus is a smart design that features open coil springs and a standard comfort level. This tends to be the most popular bed for halls of residences, student accommodations and hostels. The mattress has a fresh design in an easy to clean stitchbond cover. The bed frame is available with fixed or detached legs. It’s worth investing in a durable bed for student housing because you want the beds to last beyond just one student stay.
The Conference
Meet the bed that is ideal for space-saving! The Conference has an open coil mattress on a metal skid leg base. With a wipe clean breathable mattress cover that can be leaned time and time again. The fabric which we use dissipates body heat too. No night sweats here! It contains high levels of woollen felt to ensure comfort levels are maintained.
The Residence
Sometimes all you need for those short-term student stays are beds that are reliable and efficient. The Residence has a PVC mattress cover and is highly practical and durable in many types of locations. It’s a hard wearing and comfortable design. It’s also ideal for wipe clean hygiene purposes.
This collection combines practicality, comfort and economy to create an ideal sleep scenario for younger persons who need to get a good night’s sleep.
We can only offer the most comfortable option for students to help them get the best sleep possible, but it is up to the individuals to make sure they regulate their sleep environments to make them fit for a peaceful night ahead.
Get rid of the distractions in the room, set yourself regular sleep hours and avoid all the pitfalls of sleep affecting behaviour.
This Millbrook Contract Beds signing off for the weekend. Good sleeping to everybody!
An Education in Sleep
In our last blog we discussed the problems that have been documented by scientific studies and surveys regarding the nature of student sleep cycles for both children and teenagers. Students tend to sleep odd hours due to their thirst for nocturnal awareness and activity. Millbrook Contract Beds has very much been interested in exploring these problems further and finding the solutions to what could be described as an epidemic of sleep deprivation for the youth of today.
Following on from our introduction in the previous blog now we want to get into exploring the potential solutions to this problem. For students of all ages – teenagers or even those in their twenties – here’s some advice to help you to focus on, absorb and retain information imparted to you in class through better sleep routines.
1. Revision is a necessity for some students and a pre-requisite of any major course at college or university. We recommend that you stop your revision a good hour or two before you want to sleep. You brain needs to wind down and in order to process everything you have been studying over the course of the evening it needs adequate sleep time.
2. Exercise is a great option, especially if you’re already sporty. It’s a perfect way to reduce stress levels and tire you out to help sleep.
3. One major problem that students seem to frequently cause themselves sis eating heavy ad unhealthy meals just before bed – whether they do this in a drunken stupor or simply because they are pressed for time, it spells bad things for your sleep. Don’t eat a heavy meal too close to bedtime or your body will not be able to relax due to the digestion and acids churning around in your stomach. This is why many people suffer with heartburn during the night.
4. A simple piece of advice is to completely avoid caffeinated drinks such as tea, coffee, or fizzy drinks after 6pm. These only serve to unnecessarily stimulate you when you should be winding down.
5. Enjoy a glass of milk before bed instead. Milk contains a chemical called tryptophan which is an essential component of the body’s sleep mechanism. This is a highly recommended technique, especially if you like to have a cold drink before bed – forget the alcohol and fizzies – and say yes to milk!
6. Make sure your room is entirely prepped to go dark when your lights go out. Complete darkness helps you to feel as though you are already on your way to sleep (like a general form of hypnosis) and there is nothing left to distract your eyes. Turn off all electronics so there are no lights or blinks or beams within eyeshot – yes, this includes mobiles. No one should need to call you in the middle of the night!
7. A strange but effective tip is to wear socks to bed. Feet have the poorest circulation in the body and therefore heat escapes from your body this way. Warm comfort is key though this is not to be confused with making yourself hot. Too hot or too cold can be just as bad as each other.
8. Ever tried counting sheep when you have had trouble getting to sleep? The night before an exam can cause a lot of stress and keep you awake as the anxiety gets to you. Try counting sheep. It focuses the mind on a mundane task instead of your worries and stresses. Although it is recommended that if you really cannot sleep you should get up and do something to make yourself feel naturally tired such as read a book.
9. Try to avoid the presence of TV, co mputers in your bedroom unless of course you don’t have anywhere else for them to be as it can be all too tempting to take a peek at Facebook or your email instead of sleeping– we do realise this is the least likely tip to ever be taken up by a student. Internet access and televisions are such commonplace in a student room that it would hardly be a student room without them. But see if you can do without them for a day and see how you do.
10. The night before an exam can be a very stressful one. Often the adrenaline keeps you awake and sees yout rhough into the next day. Our only recommendation is that you don’t start taking sleep medication to assist you. Unless you have a diagnosed sleep disorder and have been recommended by a doctor to take it you don’t need it.
And those are our top tips for student survival when it comes to sleep and study. In the next part in this blog series we will talk about sleeping environments and the academic contract beds we have designed to optimise sleep for those who have educational commitments.
We’ll see you soon. In the meantime please follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Students Need Sleep – An Introduction to Catching Zzzz’s
Poor sleep can affect a student’s grades, motivation, concentration and their emotional state. With more and more stories popping up in the news about 11-20 year old age groups suffering in education simply because they do not have consistent sleep patterns Millbrook Contract Beds thought it was time to take a look at some of the issues behind this and some of the potential solutions.
Recent studies conducted in different countries by a range of highly respected sleep clinics has determined that younger persons really do need to get roughly 10 hours per night. That includes teenagers. Remember, their bodies and minds are still developing and to nurture that they need adequate sleep time.
College and university students are among the most sleep-deprived out of all demographics simply because of their 24 hour party lifestyle and then vigorous hours of study and research crammed in between. It can be seriously crippling to a young person. Many of these students settle having between 4-6 hours worth of sleep yet it is the first two and last two hours of sleep that matter most hence why 8 hours should be the minimum in order to fully recharge and reset.
The all-nighter is infamous as being an opportunity to study or an excuse to socialise, hard. Sleep deprivation has been proven to impair mental function and ultimately weaken the immune system. Sleep is essential, and has been scientifically proven, to maintain memory, mood, and overall cognitive performance.
If the students are still in school and under the roof of their parents then it up to the parents to enforce stricter bedtime rules and ensure their children are getting the hours required for them to be alert and aware come the morning ring of the school bell. However, once teenager reach 16 they begin to flirt with independence in their learning and education by choosing college and courses that suit their desires and pursuits. This is when they begin deciding what they want to do with their lives and how they choose to live them. Usually, bed time rules cease to apply to them and they begin making their own.
So if you’re a student and you’re independent from home without rules and restrictions from parents; stay with our blog this week for an in-depth exploration of how sleep can be optimised to help academic studies. We can help you achieve a better quality of sleep and fully realise your potential for absorbing more information in classes/lectures.
Ideally you should be getting 9 hours of sleep a night as a teenager. That won’t always be possible of course. Sometimes circumstances just make that impossible and we understand that.
If you want to be on top form in an exam then it’s essential you get a good night sleep. In the next part in this blog series we will tell you how!
Millbrook Contract Beds is dedicated to providing the best sleep experiences for everyone and we hope we can be of help in our blog from time-to-time. For academic contract beds please follow the link or for general sleep advice follow us on Twitter and the blog.
Win your war against insomnia – sleep advice from Millbrook
Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint, and most people consider it the inability to sleep. Granted, it comes from a Latin phrase meaning “no sleep”, but the modern definition of insomnia covers a great deal more than just not drifting off. Sufferers of insomnia do not receive the full restorative effects of sleep, whether it be from waking up too early or from merely not experiencing a restful night. Difficulty staying asleep is another possible symptom of insomnia. We at Millbrook Contract Beds have been gathering a few interesting facts about insomnia – so you don’t have to lose any sleep over the effort!
With between 30% and 40% of adults in any given year, it remains an incredibly common and a wildly subjective complaint. The potential causes of insomnia are numerous – sometimes it can be a symptom of other conditions and illnesses or a side effect of prescribed medication, while other occurrences are put down to stress or brought on by night time pain. Jet lag can also bring insomnia with it, as it leads to your internal clock being out of synch with your environment. Sometimes these causes can be easy to combat (changing medication, say, or taking painkillers), but other root problems are not so simple to deal with. Controlling stress levels, for instance, is rarely a procedure that can be carried out overnight.
In itself, insomnia can be a temporary or a long-lived condition, lasting anything between a single night and years. Chronic-intermittent insomnia is quite a common occurrence in long-term sufferers, with the condition worsening for several nights followed by a short run of good sleeps. These chronic insomniacs often experience frustrating wakefulness in daytime. If not treated properly, insomnia can lead to an increased likelihood of contracting illnesses and an increase in the frequency of morbid thoughts. Poorer overall health has been noted in insomniacs, as well as lesser concentration and greater irritability.
If you find you have difficulty sleeping, consider whether any stressors or current events may have an effect on your condition. If you can identify a possible cause, it is recommended to tackle the problem at the root. However, if you are unable to either identify a cause or take care of it, professional treatment may well be in order. Millbrook Contract Beds recommends that a doctor is always consulted if symptoms persist.
Some factors may help to alleviate the issue at least in part, however. Establishing a regular routine is essential and eating and drinking close to bedtime must be kept to a minimum. A cool, dark room will be best for your sleep, while the sounds of bedside fans or air conditioning machines may serve to soothe you and reduce outside sounds. Caffeine, alcohol and nicotine all have effects on wakefulness too and so it would be good to avoid these substances, especially closer to bedtime.
Alternatively, do check out our range of contract beds, there’s bound to be something we have to give you your best night’s sleep to date!
Words of wisdom from the world of sleep…
During our Twittering we have stumbled across sleep facts and sleep stats galore but we have also discovered some very impressive and meaningful quotes about the nature of sleep, both insightful and funny.
Millbrook Contract Beds has been busy collecting and collating our favourite selections of quotes ad expressions about the nature of sleep for the purposes of our daily tweeting but we thought what better way to do full justice to these wise words then to share our favourites on our blog page?
Here are our 12 favourites that we have shared on Twitter and Facebook over the past month:
12. Sleep is the best meditation – Dalai Lama
11. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? – Ernest Hemingway
10. A well-spent day brings happy sleep – Leonardo da Vinci
9. If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep – Dale Carnegie
8. No day is so bad that it can’t be fixed with a nap – Carrie Snow
7. There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest kind, than in all the alcohol ever distilled – Edward Lucas People
6. When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, “Did you sleep good?” I said “No, I made a few mistakes – Steven Wright
5. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one – Leo J. Burke
4. The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late – Charles Caleb Colton
3. May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment – Jeb Dickerson
2. People who snore always fall asleep first! – Anon
1. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep - Robert Frost
Any list that groups together Robert Frost, the Dali Lamar, Ernest Hemingway and Steven Wright must be doing something right!
Runners-up for the top 12 also included:
“The best cure for insomnia is Monday morning” – Anon
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it” – John Steinbeck
“Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head, And kick every worriment out of the bed” – Edmund Vance Cooke
“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them when he is asleep, is in a world of his own” – Plutarch
And there you have our comprehensive list of favourite quotes based on the idea and nature of sleep.
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Sing your baby to sleep – a Millbrook Lullaby
New parents may be desperately trawling the Internet for advice on how to get their baby or child to go to sleep. Millbrook Contract Beds thought it would be a nice idea to create a blog that gave parents access to the most amazing “go to sleep” technique ever invented – not the bed- but the lullaby. Singing your children to sleep is an old fashioned magic trick that still works on young children to this very day.
Let’s keep that tradition alive!
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A Millbrook Lullaby
Hush little baby I’ll sing you to sleep,
Then quietly, peacefully slumber.
Sweetest thy Mother will lovingly keep,
Then quietly, peacefully slumber.
Sleep darling sleep, Sleep Baby sleep,
Quietly, peacefully slumber.
Sleep darling sleep, Sleep Baby sleep,
Quietly, peacefully slumber.
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And now here’s our collection of the best children’s lullabies to sing those little ones to sleep and off into the land of nod…
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Hush little baby
Hush, little baby, don’t say a word.
Papa’s gonna buy you a mockingbird
And if that mockingbird won’t sing,
Papa’s gonna buy you a diamond ring
And if that diamond ring turns brass,
Papa’s gonna buy you a looking glass
And if that looking glass gets broke,
Papa’s gonna buy you a billy goat
And if that billy goat won’t pull,
Papa’s gonna buy you a cart and bull
And if that cart and bull fall down,
You’ll still be the sweetest little baby in town
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Sleep baby, sleep
Sleep, baby, sleep
Your father tends the sheep
Your mother shakes the dreamland tree
And from it fall sweet dreams for thee
Sleep, baby, sleep
Sleep, baby, sleep
Sleep, baby, sleep
Our cottage vale is deep
The little lamb is on the green
With snowy fleece so soft and clean
Sleep, baby, sleep
Sleep, baby, sleep
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Sweet Chariot
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin’ for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin’ for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin’ for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin’ for to carry me home
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All the pretty horses
Hush-a-bye don’t you cry,
Go to sleep-y, little baby.
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses.
Blacks and bays, dapple grays,
Coach and six white horses.
Hush-a-bye don’t you cry,
Go to sleep-y, little baby.
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To learn the rhythms behind these beautiful lullabies (if you don’t already know them) you can just type the titles of each lullaby into YouTube or Google to find a video to help you get the right tone and melody.
A child needs to hear your voice to feel safe before going to sleep and if your voice has tension or anxiety in it, children are adept and perceptive enough to notice. Singing them to sleep helps both them and you to relax and is one of the best techniques to help a child drift away into a place where dreams come true.
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Contract bed surgery – what’s inside a Millbrook bed?
A common concern with contract bed buyers can often be about the materials that are used for the mattresses and beds. Since there are so many types of mattresses and beds on the market today, it is important to know what goes into the manufacturing and design of these contract bed items.
With an uncompromising design philosophy, Millbrook Contract Beds was born out of the finest craftsmanship and the utilisation of the highest quality materials in order to create the ultimate in luxury sleep. With rapid mass production at work in this industry, Millbrook is totally committed to the traditional ideals of quality and craftsmanship. The hope is that through our dedication to this aspect of design, function and handcrafted care, our clients feel more reassured that our contract beds are superior in every way as we continue to promote well-being and comfort through the attainment of a perfect sleep.
^^^A peek inside a Millbrook Bed^^^
Sprung interiors are most common and are located in a majority of bases with the exception of waterbeds, high quality latex mattresses and cheap foam mattresses. There are various types of spring mattresses on the market and it’s important to know what different types are on offer. The main types of modern spring units are as follows: open coil, knitted and pocket spring.
Open Coil – individual springs are joined together using wire. There are between 288 and 325 springs in a 5’0 mattress.
Knitted – a spring system created from continuous lengths of interwoven wire.
Pocket springs – these are the finest of spring systems. Each spring is housed within individual fabric pockets. They move independently of each other, eliminating ‘roll-together’ and offering correct spinal support. The pocket spring is at the heart of all our top quality sprung beds. You’ll find that this offers the highest levels of support, durability and comfort.
Double stacking and individually hand nested pocket springs provide superior levels of support. The top tier if the springs absorb the majority of the weight whilst conforming to the body shape. The bottom rows resist more gently adding to the overall support and also to the longevity of the mattress, all working in harmony to ensure that your body is supported. Our unique Zonal edge springing provides extra strength to the sides of the mattress, by applying 2 rows of firmer springs on either side, ensuring no ‘roll-off’ or sleep disturbance.
HAND-SIDE STITCHING
Every mattress in the range features traditional hand-side stitching which secures the outer springs to the border at top and bottom preventing ‘roll-out’, and is the most highly skilled and labour intensive of all our operations. Side-stitching is carried out by senior upholsterers using traditional long needles and twine to make borders and edges stronger. The effects on the mattress are quite dramatic preventing the springs from distorting and extending the sleeping area right up to the edge of the bed.
DIVAN BASE
The fully sprung edge zonal divan base has a unique spring system incorporating two support levels of spring torsion with a higher gauge spring supporting the edge to prevent ‘roll-off’ and also creates a firm, supportive foundation for the mattress.
All divans are made from solid timber to carry the weight of the sumptuous mattress and load-bearing joints are secured and glued by hand for lasting strength. All divans are mounted on smooth running solid metal casters. The drawers come complete with unique, smooth ball-bearing steel action runners.
There has never been a better time to experience the luxury of sleeping in our beautifully crafted, handmade beds. Relax, wake up and benefit from the most comfortable sleep you have ever enjoyed. Contact us for further contract bed advice at Millbrook.
5 ways to improve your guests’ sleep experience
We at Millbrook Contract Beds understand thoroughly what goes into a good night’s sleep. Our years of experience in providing top quality and value contract beds for the hospitality industry has taught us a thing or two about how to provide the perfect night’s sleep for all of your guests. We thought we’d pass on a couple of top tips for how to create the ultimate sleeping setup, so without any further ado, here’s our top five!
1. Noise
It’s fairly safe to say that excessive noise is a huge cause of disturbed sleep in hotels across the country, especially in regards to city hotels with busy traffic circulating constantly nearby. Earplugs are an archaic solution and rather outdated – not to mention uncomfortable and potentially dangerous if they get stuck!
Many hotels around the world have invested in optional white noise generators – this curious phenomenon is taking off all over the world and helps to block out unnecessary and obtrusive sounds. Of course, double glazing your hotel’s windows can stop almost all exterior sounds, and would be recommended to any hoteliers looking at cutting down on disruptive noise.
2. Temperature
Generally an optimum sleeping environment is fairly cool, but sleeping with a window open may counteract the sound-reducing benefits of your newly installed double glazing. Individual thermostats and air conditioning systems may seem like an expensive solution at first but this extra touch is one all your customers will notice and appreciate.
3. Comfort
Every sleeper prefers a different sort of pillow – some like firm, some like soft, and different pillows are more suited to different sleeping positions than others. Many high-end hoteliers offer their guests a choice of pillows, fully customised to their sleeping needs, but even a choice of two is an extra feature that makes a difference and an impression.
Of course we need to mention how great an impact the quality of your hotel contract beds makes – this simply can’t be understated, so do go for the highest quality bed your budget allows for. Do contact us with details on any individual requests or specifications to make your hotel stand out even further.
4. Advice
Leaflets or booklets with advice and recommendations to your guests on how to make the most of their night’s sleep can lead to a marked increase in reported sleep quality. Information about relaxation techniques and general guidance (such as “don’t read, work or eat in your hotel contract bed!”) can be included, and this could be an opportunity to let your guests know what sleep assistance is available to them.
5. Extra Services
The idea of a pillow menu is quite an ingenious one, but there are many other potential sleep niches that could make your establishment stand out. Aromatherapy has been suggested to help with relaxation and so could be considered – some hotels also offer spa facilities to really relax their guests. For those with a more finite budget, a simple alarm call service is a friendly and helpful way to make a difference.
These are only a few of the virtually limitless options and services that an establishment such as yours could offer to improve customer satisfaction, so keep an eye on our blog for more ideas. Don’t forget to keep your hotel contract beds in tip-top condition too!
Improving your quality of sleep
Sleep is a wonderful thing. You can have little naps, long snoozes, afternoon siestas and doze off after a long day at work. Reclining on a hammock on a summer’s day, falling asleep with a good book in front of a log fire or in one of our luxury contract beds, there are so many ways experience the wonderful effects of sleep. Following your slumber, you always awake refreshed and restored, ready to kick-start the day! …Or do you?
If you’re struggling to set off to the Land of Nod you’re not alone, approximately one in seven people suffer from some sort of sleep disorder. The major conditions such as insomnia and narcolepsy are well known, but with over 70 officially diagnosed sleep related disorders, many more minor troubles are experienced on a regular basis across the world. These problems seem to get more and more likely as you get older – an estimated 50% of people over 65 experience difficulty sleeping.
Of course, the more serious or persistent of these issues have corresponding medical solutions, so Millbrook recommends you should always seek professional medical advice as standard procedure. However, if you’re feeling tired during the day or waking up earlier than you’d like without feeling refreshed, it goes without saying that your sleep is of poor quality and could potentially be improved. Bad quality sleep has also been linked to such symptoms as depression, lack of concentration and memory problems, so the importance of a good night’s rest can’t be understated!
There are many ways to improve the quality of your sleep – apart from simply investing in one of our contract beds! Over the years, a multitude of studies have been conducted into the purposes of sleep and, from them, how to best improve people’s sleeping experience. Here at Millbrook we’ve been scouring these studies to bring you some advice on how to get the best out of your forty winks!
In a study into the effects of music on students with poor sleep it was found that the use of ‘relaxing’ classical music for 45 minutes at bedtime led to a reported increase in sleep quality, as well as a significant reduction in depressive symptoms. Listening to such music has also been linked to reductions in blood pressure and decreases in anxiety, so for a top quality sleep stick on some Chopin or Debussy!
An alternative to music seems to be exercise. In a study where participants were instructed to, four times a week, spend 30 to 40 minutes performing low impact aerobics or brisk walking, sleep quality was reported as having improved across the board. Tai Chi has been suggested as a great aid in pre-sleep preparation too, so don’t discard the idea of trying something new to work towards a better sleep!
We remain supremely confident that our contract beds will go a long way towards giving you the perfect night’s sleep, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to strive for an even better rest! Sleep well…
20 Sleep Facts you didn’t know! Some serious sleep stats from Millbrook Contract Beds
Millbrook Contract Beds spends a lot of its time on Twitter and Facebook sharing our love of sleep with our followers. We regularly tweet and update about sleep facts and sleep related stories. So we thought, why not take all we have learned and collected over the past year of Tweeting and compile it into a comprehensive fact list? Bear in mind these are just a handful of the facts we have researched (in total there is probably more like 300 odd facts we have learnt about sleep, beds, dreams and sleep disorders).
#1 – People can sleep with their eyes open and not even be aware that they are doing it.
#2 – The average adult needs to sleep a total of 7 to 9 hours per day.
#3 – 50% of people over the age of 60 suffer with some type of sleep disorder.
#4 – The world record for the longest period without sleep stands at 18 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes. Although it is not recommended that people try to break it because…
#5 – A person needs sleep to function. To go without sleep for an elongated period without close medical supervision can be fatal.
#6 – If it takes a person more than 5-15 minutes to fall asleep every night it could mean that they are sleep deprived.
#7 – REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep causes the sleeper a paralysis that they are unaware of.
#8 –REM sleep kicks in after 90 minutes after we fall asleep and lasts for approximately 2 hours.
#9 – If you ever dream that you yourself are taking a nap during your dream it could be a sign that you need to relax and take it easy more. Sleeping in your own dreams can also symbolise that you are at peace.
#10 – New born babies typically result in 400-750 hours of lost sleep for new parents in the first year.
#11 – REM dreams are often characterized by bizarre plots, but non-REM dreams are repetitive and thought-like, with little imagery.
#12 – It is theorised by some sleep scientists that we dream to fix our experiences in our long-term memory – we dream about things that are worth remembering.
#14 – A scientific mystery remains so as scientists have still not been able to explain how shining a bright light on the back of human knees resets the brains sleep-wake clock.
#15 – Exposure to noise during the night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.
# 16 – “Natural alarm clock” (allowing people to wake up more or less when they want to) is caused by a burst of stress hormones. This is caused due to an unconscious anticipation of waking up.
#17 – It is unknown if any other species dreams as we do…
#18 – This should come as no surprise to parents but teenagers tend to sleep on an average of 10 hours per night.
#19 – The position that you sleep in reflects your personality.
#20 – Brains are far more active while they are sleeping than they are watching TV.
And there’s your lot… for now!
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