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title: "Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn't Know"  
description: "Most of what we know about sleep has only been discovered in the last 25 years, but it’s fair to say we’ve made up for it. Here's some weird facts about sleep"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-15  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1576/weird-facts-about-sleep-you-probably-didn-t-know  
category: "healthcare"  
tags: ["Sleep", "sleep facts", "sleeping facts", "weird facts", "weird sleep facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn't Know

![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/cb78a4d2-b05e-4876-9f84-9a8d2ee9eb2c.jpeg) ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/f83c44d3-deb6-40a8-b20f-0be087b93807.jpeg) 12% of people dream entirely in black and white ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/930711a6-6152-40c1-86f3-6ac8dc4d7336.jpeg) Humans spend 1/3 of their life sleeping ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/e3fe9ca4-54f0-431d-b11d-999a5d463265.jpeg) The record for the longest period without sleep is 11 days This was set by a Californian student named Randy Gardner in 1964. ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/79847960-a345-43b7-ae54-20255b531433.jpeg) It’s not uncommon for deaf people to use sign language in their sleep ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/551fbb9c-20e7-42f9-9ed1-1ed8153d7e77.jpeg) Those born blind experience dreams involving things such as emotion, sound and smell rather than sight ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/ca35f9ae-1a5a-4890-a3f8-62aef46f4807.jpeg) Parasomnia is a term that refers to unnatural movements during your sleep ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/d59e5434-6a75-4009-9896-478ad221c277.jpeg) Dysania is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning ![Weird Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn t Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/335cfdc6-f43f-4b53-9851-4f9548418752/images/4f0f3a8a-88ae-45fb-ad4c-54617bdc64d1.jpeg) The sensation of falling when half asleep and jerking yourself awake is called ‘hypnic jerks’

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