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Sleep is a complex mysterious phenomenon that we don’t know much about including why we dream and different actions associated with lack of sleep like yawning or illness, but there are many theories as to why these things occur along with facts. Why do we dream or have nightmares? What is the point to these things and how do they contribute to our health? Scientists are doing their best to research these things but sleep and things related to it are very mysterious and many things are still left unsolved. There are also many disorders and illnesses connected to the need for sleep and sleep itself, including sleepwalking, sleep apnea, snoring, yawning, dreaming, nightmares, and other various things.

Do you like sleeping? Most people do and it’s a good thing. Some people might say sleeping is an unproductive habit but truly it’s not! Sleeping can be a very important thing. Sleeping can help with mood, improve how alert someone can be, and be a benefit to your heath.

“Why do we sleep?” is a very popular questions that many humans ask today. Sleep is very sufficient to the human body. If it was not important, then God would not have designed for a third of our life to be occupied by sleep. During this time period, many people are interested to know what is a good amount of sleep and what are the harmful effects to not getting enough sleep.

I’ve been thinking about sleep ever since reading Maria Konnikova’s fascinating, three-part series for The New Yorker on sleep. And then my wife, Crystal, read the series, which got us both thinking about it, and talking about it, and experimenting with it.

The relative amount of REM sleep in other mammals exhibits in connection with their level of development at birth also supports the idea that REM sleep must aid in development. (1) Typically, animals born relatively mature, such as dolphins, giraffes, and guinea pigs, demonstrate low-amounts of REM sleep, while animals born relatively immature, such as ferrets, armadillos, and platypuses, exhibit higher levels of REM sleep. (3) Humans fall in between the spectrum of amounts of REM sleep with platypuses having the most REM sleep and some species of dolphin and whale exhibiting none. (3)

Sleep deprivation has become a wide spread issue in the United States. This spans from kids as young as 10 as far up as adults in their 40s and 50s. This causes these people to either be not at the top of their game, which can hinder their performance, and it can also make them start to get addicted to caffeinated beverages such as coffee and energy drinks. This issue could be solved with one thing, napping.

One of the differences in both dogs and cats is that dogs sleep night and cats sleep during the day. According to more.com and petful.com, Domestic cats sleep an average of sixteen hours per day, meanwhile, dogs only sleep an average of 12-14 hours per day.

Like all other species, we are no different than other animals that need sleep in order to function throughout the day. However, there are other animals that do not need sleep,

Cats are most active at dawn and dusk, so although this is when we as humans like to be sleeping

L. Chasteen: I love all the animals that I have been around but I tend to have always found a special connection with cats in particular.

All living creatures need sleep. Sleeping gives people and all living creatures the time for the body to recuperate and regenerate. Lion's needs 16 to 18 hours of sleep, while primates, ten to twelve hours of sleep. Humans need on average six to eight hours sleep to rejuvenate. Human babies need a full eight hours of sleep and naps in between.

They spend about two thirds of their lives sleeping but they’re not asleep quite the same way as humans. Sleeping helps cats conserve energy during meals. They have a dozing mode where they can get all the rest they need at that time but still be alert to wake up at a moment’s notice. Cats in a deep sleep are usually will curl up with their eyes tightly closed. They dream and snore.

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During World War II, Russian scientists kept 5 test subjects awake for 15 days. When the experiment ended, 1 was dead, and the other 4 were cannibalizing the remains of the the man despite the steak next to them. When 20 Soviet Troopers came to retrieve the subjects, the ensuing battle left 3 soldiers dead, and 5 soldiers in a critical condition. Although we are not lab rats, in this modernizing world, we are facing some of the same problems. Sleep deprivation will lower our mental capacity, although napping can mitigate these symptoms. This article will outline the expected amounts of sleep, the disadvantages of sleep deprivation, and the benefits and drawbacks of napping

Some of us will be able to cruise through and not be affected by the lack of sleep from homework and guilty pleasures on the side, but the mass majority of you will feel the lack of sleep over time take a huge toll on how you're going to feel in a week or maybe even a month or two. Whether those effects negatively influence your mood, your physicality, your relationships with others, or even just your perspective on the world and yourself, we all know that there's more than one solution besides coffee at 12 am because you waited till the and to submit an assignment. And that very solution is sleep itself.