50 Insane Facts About Sleep You Didn't Know

It's something you spend half your life doing, yet we still know very little about sleeping and dreaming, but in today's amazing top 50 countdown, we're giving you all the most incredible sleep facts to make you the ultimate sleep and dream expert. Like what happens if you stay awake for 72 hours, or if dogs really dream. And what's the deal with Lucid dreaming? Find out all the answers to your sleep questions right here!

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[thetrickster]

Another Fun Fact: I'm missing sleep staying up watching this video

[lils]

It's a differnt type of pain when your dreaming and you wake up at the best part...it just ruins the whole day for me

[water]

facts: kids ages from 14 - 17 need 7-11 hours of sleep.
School: 3 take it or leave it

[rhern]

Lack of sleep, anxiety, and depression you have described me accurately!

[JPTuddao]

wanna hear a dream that comes true??

When you see a toilet in your dream don't use it

[giovannagordon]

“Humans are the only mammal that deliberately delay their sleep” hears this at 4:24am

[Vamozu]

Fun fact : Sleep is just a free trial of being Dead

[missdenisebee]

My partner & I usually sleep apart now, after sharing a bed for years…he likes it dead silent, and warm when he sleeps, & I like a fan or two, plus a/c if possible. It’s definitely more comfortable being able to sleep in our preferred environments. Glad to hear not always sharing a bed is more common than I thought!

[ryleemonroe]

Average person falls asleep in 7-15 minutes. That is a super funny joke!

[keinlieb]

"Ideal nap is 26 minutes"

That ain't gonna work if it takes a couple hours to get to sleep to begin with.

[caleb-gdwp]

Imagine making money when you're asleep off paintings you didnt even try to paint

[ponybike]

I often micro-sleep while staying up too late (again!) while watching YT videos. I also often lucid dream. I can guide my dreams to where I want them to go.

[parrotlord]

Me: Hey brain, can i Lucid dream?
My Brain: Sleep Paralysis you say?

[cgvds]

"Sleep is just death being shy". -exurb1a video title from many months ago.

[CaseyAngelicaHardy]

In lucid dreams I see my deceased loved ones and I know it’s a dream and I’ll run out of time soon so I try to savor it as much as possible.

[madrish]

Fun fact : sleep is like a sweet kiss of Death.

[BIGwillTHEGAME]

Me: I can’t sleep
YouTube: Do you want to watch a video about sleeping?

[fiamgo]

Sometimes when my alarm is going off, I’m too tired to get up so I fall back asleep and then dream that I turned off my alarm, then I wake up and my alarm is still going and it’s so confusing

[benjy]

I have had a sleep disorder for years and it is frightening. Sleep paralysis is very scary at first and could still be very hard to deal with at a young age. When I was a child at 10 or so I would have the same nightmare of someone pulling my covers off the bed and a bloodhound running down the road with the sound of an ambulance over and over again. I realized when I was older at around 18 I suffered from sleep paralysis. Sometimes I believed I was abducted by aliens and experimented on and your mind makes it feel real. I would have pains in my arms and legs after those nightmares. Come to find out I was actually stuck in between a lucid dream and being aware of my surroundings. I could not make words per say but I could make myself snort or breath hard to wake myself up from these horrid visions. I believe it is a curse that runs in my family. I found out while I was a teenager that I had a great great great grandfather who practiced witchcraft. I at times can control my dreams. I have done it many times. Many times if I desire... I can actually choose what woman I want to be with in my dream.. and it's a lucid to say the least. lol. Now at 40 I can still do this. Probably why I don't go chasing after too many women in real life lol. Why? When I can have them all already in my own world? But the downfall is that sleep paralysis and seeing things beside me with the most horrible noises and sounds whatever my minds comes up with. I have learned to fight back against it but it still something I struggle with from month to month at times. (once as a child in middle school I saw hands coming out of the floor which I thought was real because I was stuck in my sleep and couldn't move and it was the most terrifying dream or paralysis I ever had)

[aerofiles]

Scientists: You need atleast 8 hours of sleep per night.
American School System:


*Im just gonna pretend I didnt see that*