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#SleepFacts: Lack of sleep can make you stupid!

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Lack of sleep hurts many cognitive processes such as attention, alertness, concentration, reasoning and problem solving. Sleep also helps to ‘consolidate’ memories in your mind. This is according to mybedframes.co.uk  . Find out other interesting facts about sleep. #According to a research carried out on sleep, short sleep (6 hours or less) is associated with 12% increased risk of death. Long sleep is associated with 30% increased risk of death. #The people in our dreams are not made up. We have seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, and we only see faces that we have seen before in real life. #The brain is very much active during sleep. Your brain will consolidate all that you learnt that day, helping cement it into long term memory. #Researchers have found that it can take five minutes longer to fall asleep and that you sleep for 20 minutes less when there is a full moon. #Humans sleep on average around three hours less than other primates like chimps,