PARTICULARS ABOUT SLEEP YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW
Added on: 18th Sep 2016
SLEEPING WHILE AT WORK MIGHT BE A REASON
FOR YOU TO LOSE YOUR JOB IN THE US AND
EUROPE, BUT IN JAPAN MOST COMPANIES CONSIDER
IT A SIGN OF DEDICATION IF THEIR WORKERS FALL
ASLEEP DUE TO EXHAUSTION WHILE ON THE JOB
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF INSOMNIA IS NOT
DEFINED BY THE SLEEP YOU LOSE DURING THE
NIGHT BUT BY THE TIREDNESS, HEADACHES,
DROWSINESS AND IRRITABILITY IT CAUSES
THE SUFFERER THE NEXT DAY
TIREDNESS PEAKS TWICE A DAY ACCORDING TO THE
EXPERTS: AT 2 A.M. AND 2 P.M. THAT EXPLAINS WHY
YOU USUALLY FEEL SLEEPY AFTER LUNCH
ACCORDING TO THE CLEVELAND CLINIC’S SLEEP
DISORDERS CENTRE IF YOU FALL ASLEEP IN LESS
THAN FIVE MINUTES IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE
PROBABLY SLEEP-DEPRIVED. THE IDEAL PERIOD
OF TIME FOR SOMEONE TO FALL ASLEEP IS
ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES, WITHOUT NECESSARILY
MEANING THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM IF IT
TAKES YOU A LITTLE LONGER TO FALL ASLEEP
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SINCE THE ERA OF COLOUR
TELEVISION BEGAN, OVER SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT
OF PEOPLE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD DREAM IN
COLOUR. STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT BEFORE
COLOUR TV ONLY FIFTEEN PERCENT COULD DREAM
IN COLOUR
BEING AWAKE FOR SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN HOURS
STRAIGHT CAUSES THE SAME IMPAIRMENT AS
ALCOHOL. VARIOUS STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT
A SLEEP-DEPRIVED PERSON PERFORMS AS
THOUGH THEIR BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL IS .05%.
THE LEGAL LIMIT IS .08%.
WE ARE ALL AWARE OF INSOMNIA, BUT HOW MANY
OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF “DYSANIA”? CLINOMANIA,
OR DYSANIA AS IT IS MORE COMMONLY KNOWN, IS
THE STATE OF FINDING IT HARD TO GET OUT OF BED
IN THE MORNING. DEPRESSION AND OTHER ANXIETY
DISORDERS ARE USUALLY THE CAUSES OF DYSANIA
HUMANS ARE THE ONLY MAMMALS ON EARTH THAT
CAN INTENTIONALLY DELAY SLEEP OR BECOME
SLEEP-DEPRIVED (USUALLY DUE TO OBLIGATIONS
OR WORK). YET MORE PROOF THAT HUMANS ARE
SOME OF THE MOST ANXIOUS ORGANISMS ON
THE PLANET
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