1) Everyone Needs Eight Hours of Sleep a Night
Eight hours has long been touted as the gold standard of sleep time, but this number is an average: Most people need seven to nine hours. Some can get by on four hours a night, but others need as many as 12.
Some People Are Fine With Only a Few Hours of Sleep.
2) You can catch up with your sleep on weekends
No and no. Individuals who get too little sleep during the work or school week but try to catch up on weekends may not realize that they are accumulating a chronic sleep debt.
4)Dreaming has no Importance/Significance
This might happen, but a better way is to get out of bed and try some relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, meditation or listen to some soothing music.
6)Sleep is a passive activity
Some brain activities, such as delta waves actually increase when we are asleep. Also sleep is a time when the endocrine system increases production of human growth hormone and prolactin.
7) Sleeping pills are harmless
Receiving hypnotic prescriptions was associated with greater than threefold increased hazards of death even when prescribed <18 pills/year.
8) Day naps are a waste of time
9) Yawning is an indicator of Tiredness
Even after so many years of research in this field, the real causes of yawning remain a mystery even after continued scientific scrutiny. Although, it is now known that it is not even remotely related to tiredness
10) Don't drink coffee
Research in recent years suggests that caffeine could actually help in preventing serious conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s disease.
No and no. Individuals who get too little sleep during the work or school week but try to catch up on weekends may not realize that they are accumulating a chronic sleep debt.
3)Teenagers like to stay in bed because they are lazy
During the years of adolescence, a change occurs in the body clock. During the years of puberty, a 2-3 hours delay occurs in the circadian rhythms and children of this age, particularly males, gradually become more ‘evening types’. This phenomenon is known as delayed sleep phase disorder, and is characterized by a delayed sleep-wake timing.
4)Dreaming has no Importance/Significance
REM sleep, aka dreaming is of very high significance for the brain and the body. It prepares the brain of emergency conditions, and provides stimulation to the nervous system during development.
5) Stay at one place and you will drop off againThis might happen, but a better way is to get out of bed and try some relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, meditation or listen to some soothing music.
6)Sleep is a passive activity
Some brain activities, such as delta waves actually increase when we are asleep. Also sleep is a time when the endocrine system increases production of human growth hormone and prolactin.
7) Sleeping pills are harmless
Receiving hypnotic prescriptions was associated with greater than threefold increased hazards of death even when prescribed <18 pills/year.
8) Day naps are a waste of time
It has now been scientifically proven that Day Dreaming can improve your performance at your workplace.
9) Yawning is an indicator of Tiredness
Even after so many years of research in this field, the real causes of yawning remain a mystery even after continued scientific scrutiny. Although, it is now known that it is not even remotely related to tiredness
10) Don't drink coffee
Research in recent years suggests that caffeine could actually help in preventing serious conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s disease.
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