myths and facts about sleep

Is it true that older people sleep less than children? Is it true afternoon nap mean lazy? Sleep problems can not be underestimated because the impact on quality of life. The following myths and facts about sleep.

Myth: The quality of sleep determines a person's age
Fact: Sleep is the third part of human life. Sleep affects the quality of life, determine a person's age, and the impact on human life.

Good sleep is good sleep quality. Good sleep quality is affected by several things, namely:
a. Asleep or not asleep.
b. Frequent arrousal (often awakened at night). This can cause the body is not fresh.
c. Oxygen levels in the body during sleep. At bedtime, place the recovery of energy and endurance, immune cells are formed, the formation of some hormones, such as growth hormone and insulin.

Myth: Alcoholic beverages help to sleep better
Fact: Alcohol is not appropriate and healthy ways to help them sleep better. People who consume alcohol often low quality of sleep and frequent waking during the night (frequent arrousal). Too often awakened at night will result in the body is not refreshed when I wake up.

Myth: Snoring is not harmful
Fact: Snoring is annoying, especially for married couples. Typically, people who snore are usually the hands and feet moving during sleep.

In some cases, snoring is not harmful but in certain cases a sign of disorder Obstructive Sleep Apnea, which is a sleep disorder characterized by cessation of breathing during sleep caused by periodic narrowing of the airway during sleep.

In sleep apnea, the oxygen content is reduced so that interfere with the brain and lead to disruption of memory that is quickly forgotten. Emotional center of the brain resulting in more emotional, depressed, sad. Blood pressure rises, the heart enlarged, and more prone to coronary heart disease. People with sleep apnea are also likely to experience impotence (42 per cent dysfunction problems in men caused by sleep disorders).

Myth: There is something wrong if you do not remember your dreams
Fact: It is less precise. Everyone must have dreamed, there are people who remember the dream and there is no recall. Dreams can occur in REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement), which is where the condition of the eyes were moving fast. In this phase, one may recall dream.

Meanwhile, the Non-REM phase of sleep (quiet eye condition), one does not remember or can not tell his dream. There are people who have dreams and are not. People who are diseased soul, such as sadistic, often do not have dreams.