Slow-wave sleep

5 Interesting Things That Happen When You Sleep

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Sleeping seems like such an unremarkable event, but there is so much more to sleep than we realize. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 5 interesting things that happen when you sleep. You sleep in stages When you first fall asleep, you typically have a sleep cycle that starts with the NREM (non-rapid … Read more

Elephants Are Insomniacs, Sleeping Just 2 Hours A Night

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Elephants hardly ever sleep in the wild, getting around two hours of shut-eye per night and only in the wee hours of the morning, researchers said Wednesday. The findings in the journal PLOS ONE are based on two female wild African elephants — living in Botswana’s Chobe National Park — who appear to sleep the … Read more