Sleep is very important. Did you know that sleep is more important than food? A person who does not sleep dies faster than a person who does not eat.
Let's say you go to sleep 12 hours late. It will take your body about three weeks to return to normal. We spend about a third (1/3) of our lives in sleep that's about 121 days a year.
How much sleep do we need? We are all different. A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every day. Children 6 to 12 year old need an average of 10 to 12 hours of sleep. Teenagers need 9-10 hours of sleep. An adult needs an average of 7 to 8 hours a night. There are some people who need only 3 hours of sleep. Others needs 10 hours of sleep. After the age of 50, the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night Ee need lees sleep as we get older.
Most people have some nights when they cannot sleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep.The name of this problem is insomnia.The word insomnia means "no sleep." Some people say, "I didn't sleep all night. " But that's not really ture.They may sleep lightly and make up several times. In the morning, they only remember the times they were awake, so they think they were awake all night.
This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special idea to make them sleep. Benjamin Franklin, the famous statesman and invertor,had four beds.He moved from one to the other to fall asleep. King Louis XIV of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of the bed.