"We are woken not by the sun at the time that suits our biorhythm, but by the remorseless bleeping of gadgets. On the way to work, caffeinated drinks jolt our sluggish brains into action. On the way home, electronic devices interrupt us with supposedly urgent messages, preventing us from shifting our minds away from the workplace" – Dominic Knight Sleep is vital for every human being’s survival. The average person invests approximately 25 years of their life in sleep… that’s one third of your life you spend unconscious! But despite this, sleep and dreams are the most under researched and overlooked topics and issues in our society and remains a mystery to many.
Why do we sleep? Why do we dream? Why can some recall their dreams more than others? What starts or ends REM sleep? What impacts the quality of our sleep? We live in an increasingly unprecedented online world of 24 hour news cycles and incessant instant updates. Much of our lives revolve around a single handheld device that wakes us up in the morning and often puts us to sleep at night. It is important now, more than ever, that we take time out from technology and develop healthy, regular sleep habits. Why? Because humans literally cannot function without sleep. Lack of sleep can impact your mood, memory, alertness, productivity, capacity to learn and ability to think clearly. By the time an infant reaches the age of two they’ve developed 90% of their adult brain, which is developed during sleep. According to the US Center for Disease Control, sleeping fewer than seven hours continually can increase your risk for obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke, frequent mental distress, and all-cause mortality. So why is it that up to 30% of the population reports feeling sleep deprived, sleeping less than six hours a day? Or more alarmingly … one in three Aussies report having mild insomnia. Sleep Sense is here to explore these questions and generate insightful discussions with sleepers, experts and sufferers. So to get the ball rolling, may Sleep Sense ask... How did you sleep last night?
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