People spend about a third of their lives “asleep. You notice how necessary sleep is when you lack it. You can hardly concentrate because you’re so tired. But how much sleep do you need exactly?
The longer the sleep deprivation lasts, the more extreme the consequences. The brain perceives visions, shadows and sounds that do not exist. The individual need for sleep depends largely on hereditary factors. There are people who get by on five hours of sleep, while others need ten hours to feel well rested.
Sleep researchers have found that people in Western countries sleep on average about an hour less than they did 20 years ago. They were also able to show: People who sleep too little perform less during the day — and often don’t even notice it. Because you can get used to too little sleep. This leads to a paradoxical phenomenon: the more people work, the less they sleep. The longer the working hours, the more frequent are sleep disorders, analyzed the scientists of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. But only those who are well-rested perform at their best.1
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