1. Did You Know?

2. Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

3. Did You Know?

4. The extra hour of sleep received when clocks are turned back at the end of daylight saving time has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents.

5. The NRMA estimates fatigue is involved in one in 6 fatal road accidents.

6. THAT MEANS 100,000 CAR ACCIDENTS ARE CAUSED PER YEAR DUE TO SLEEP DEPRIVATION, A PERSON FALLING ASLEEP ON THE WHEEL OR HAVE FULL CONCENTRATION ON THE ROAD!

7. Did You Know

8. It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.

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10. Ducks at risk of attack by predators are able to balance the need for sleep and survival, keeping one half of the brain awake while the other slips into sleep mode.

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12. A new baby typically results in 400 to 750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year.

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14. Humans Are the Only Species That Can Choose Sleep Deprivation

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16. Snoring occurs only in non-REM sleep.

17. Which Means……….

18. That a person only snores when they are not getting the sufficient hours of sleep!

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20. Approximately one-third of your life is spent sleeping!

21. Did You Know?

22. That The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska

23. The Challenger space shuttle disaster

24. and the Chernobyl nuclear accident

25. have all been attributed to human errors in which sleep-deprivation played a role

26. A third of the US population report chronic sleep loss. Did You Know?

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28. Since 1960, chronic sleep loss has doubled in the US.

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30. Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet.

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32. After five nights of partial sleep deprivation, three drinks will have the same effect on your body as six would when you've slept enough.

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34. British Ministry of Defense researchers have been able to reset soldiers' body clocks so they can go without sleep for up to 36 hrs. Tiny optical fibres embedded in special spectacles project a ring of bright white light (with a spectrum identical to a sunrise) around the edge of soldiers' retinas, fooling them into thinking they have just woken up.

35. Did You Know? Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.

36. The following is data collected from 50 family members and friends on how many hours of sleep they get each night.

38. So the question is, is sleep deprivation a serious issue?

39. OF COURSE IT IS!

40. Are their consequences if you do not get a sufficient amount?

41. Of Course there are!

42. What are those Consequences?

43. You limit your ability to

44. Learn!

45. Listen!

46. Concentrate!

47. And Solve problems!

48. Sleep deprivation can contribute to acne and other skin problems;

49. Change in appetite

50. Blurred vision

51. Frequent infections

52. Behavioral learning or social problems

53. Rage of discomfort

54. Inability to tolerate stress

55. What are the positive effects of sleep deprivation?

56. NONE!

57. The following results are experiments I conducted on my brother testing the symptoms of sleep deprivation. He was sleep deprived one hour.