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1. 每晚睡眠6到7个小时的人比睡眠超过8小时的人的寿命预期更长。 Both whales and dolphins literally fall half asleep. Their brain hemispheres take turns so they can continue surfacing to breathe. 2. 其实鲸鱼和海豚只是半睡状态。它们的大脑两个半球轮流值班，这样它们能够浮到水面来呼吸。 The world record for not sleeping was set by 17-year-old Randy Gardner in 1964 when he was awake for 264 hours and 12 minutes. 3. 世界上不睡觉的最高记录是由1964年一位17岁的少年兰迪加德纳创造，他连续264个小时12分钟未睡觉。 An adult bedbug can survive up to one year without feeding. 4. 成年臭虫不用喂养却能活1年多。 In 2004, more than 35 million sleeping pill prescriptions were filled in America, a number that more than doubled from the previous four years. 5. 2004年，美国医生开的安眠药药方超过3500万例。这个数字比之前四年的两倍还多。 Although people born blind don’t see images when they dream, they do have an increased auditory, tactile, and olfactory experience 6. 尽管天生失明者做梦时没有图像，但是他们的听觉、触觉、嗅觉等比常人发达。 Scientists haven’t been able to figure out why exactly we need sleep. 7. 科学家至今无法解释人为什么需要睡眠。 Somniphobia is the fear of sleep. 8. Somniphobia这个单词的意思是睡眠恐惧症。 12% of people have black and white dreams. Before color television though, the number was 75%. 9. 12%的人做的梦中图像是黑色和白色的。在彩色电视机出现前，这个数字是75%。 Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty is a surgical procedure used to fix snoring by tightening the throat. Possible side effects include changes to the tone of your voice. 10. 悬雍垂腭咽成形术是一种外科手术，通过紧固喉咙来解决打呼的问题。可能造成的副作用是你的嗓音的改变。 When you die, you will have slept about 1/3 of your life, which for the average person is approximately 25 years. 11. 每个人花在睡觉的时间大概是一辈子的三分之一，也就是说大概25年左右。 Not sleeping for 16 hours leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of .05% 12. 连续不睡觉超过16个小时，会导致工作效率低下，和血液中酒精含量达到0.05%的效果是一样的。 Every 90 minutes, during REM sleep, a burst of electrical activity flows through your brainstem which also happens to be when you experience dreams. 13. 在快速眼动睡眠阶段，每90分钟，有一股电波流过你的脑干，当你做梦时也会产生。 The average person spends 6 years of their life dreaming. 14. 平均一个人一生做梦的时间为6年。 That moment right before you fall asleep when all of a sudden you jolt wide awake has a name – it’s called a myoclonic jerk. 15. 在你熟睡之前的短暂时刻，经常会有短促的震颤样肌收缩，这种现象我们有一个专业的名字，叫肌肉性痉挛。 Read more at http://www./index.php/2012/07/15-quick-sleep-facts/#zEEYHq4RItWhqScj.99 更多精彩请看 http://www./index.php/2012/07/15-quick-sleep-facts/#zEEYHq4RItWhqScj.99Read more at http://www./index.php/2012/07/15-quick-sleep-facts/#zEEYHq4RItWhqScj.99 |
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