12 Interesting Things About Sleep That You Didn't Know

Man has been given countless blessings by the Creator. Some of them are the ones that we seldom realize to be a blessing. Sleep is one of such things. It has positive effects on our body when taken properly. Lack of sleep causes many complications. You can read the complete list of the benefits of sleep we all enjoy. Here I am going to list down some interesting aspects of sleep. I am quite sure most of the readers are seldom aware of these facts.

1. If we calculate the total time of our sleep throughout our entire life, it makes up about one third or our life. If the average human life is believed to be 75 years, we spend 25 of these years sleeping. And interestingly, that is quite necessary.
2. When a baby is born, parents sleep routine is disturbed. The mother suffers the most. At an average, six months of sleep of the parents is missed out in the first two years of their baby’s life. Children should be more respectful to their parents as they sacrifice a lot in bringing them up. You can read further, why we should respect our elders.
3. The minimum sleep recommended by scientists is 7 hours per 24 hours. It is believed if the sleeping time is continuously reduced than recommended; the total life expectancy is also affected badly.
4. If you do not have your complete sleep on regular basis, it could add to gaining weight. The process could be as fast as gaining 2 pounds of body weight in less than a week. This is quite fast actually.
5. This is also interesting to know that human can live without eating anything for about two months but the maximum time they can live awake is 11 days. They are bound to sleep after that or their life would be in danger. This proves that sleep is even more important than the diet.
6. Japanese have very interesting working habits. They know the body chemistry well. That is why sleeping at working hours is acceptable in japan. This actually shows that the person is exhausted by hard word and needs to have a break.
7. Human brain sometimes works in strange ways. If you believe that you have slept well, though in actuality you have not, it improves the performance. This is all a brain game.
8. Humans are very interesting kind of mammals. They are the only ones who can delay sleep willingly for a later time. However, there is a limit to it. No other animal has the ability to do so.
9. As we go higher in altitude, the disruption in sleep increases. This is due to the lack of oxygen at the high altitude. Most people take two to three weeks to adjust themselves at the new altitudes.
10. Our sleep is disturbed by changing the routine. The body takes very long time to adjust for shift works, which is not possible in alternating shifts. People working in alternating shifts, have higher chances of having heart disease and digestive complications.
11. Things can go the way round as well. One main cause to feel sleepy among most of us is the self-imposed deprivation for sleep, which is actually not there. As I mentioned earlier, this is all a brain game.
12. People who are sleep- deprived feel are likely to have more and bigger appetite. This is due to the fact the leptin levels in the in body fall. Leptin is an appetite-regulating hormone in the body.