• One-Third of our lives are spent in sleep.
• Learning and memory is directly tied to sleep.
• In 1998, in the U.S.A. there were 2,474,430 disabling injuries resulting from accidents where decreased mental efficiency and attentiveness due to sleep loss was the major causative factor.
• Sleep Apnea is an independent rick factor for stroke and poor seizure control.
• “Sleep is the intermediate state between wakefulness and death; wakefulness being regarded as the active state of all animal and intellectual functions, and death as that of their total suspension.” – Robert Macnish, Author of The Anatomy of Drunkenness, and member of the faculty of physicians and surgeons of Glasgow. Excerpt from The Philosophy of Sleep, 1834.
• More has been learned about sleep in the past 60 years than in the preceding 600!
Insomnia cures. Insomnia escape. <Video Link>
Parenting and sleep. <Video Link>
