10 crazy facts ABOUT SLEEPING AND DREAMING

On one ear. Cuddling with your pillow. Off to club bed with dj pillow and MC blanky. Honestly: sleeping is nice, but actually really weird. Within five minutes of waking up, you forget 50% of your dream and within ten minutes you already don’t remember 90%. That and more weird facts about our favorite activity: dozing. Napping. Snoozing. Drowsing. Sleeping.

1. Hey, that's funny: men dream 70 percent of the time about other men, while women dream just as much about men as they do about women.

2. By the way, we can only dream about faces we have seen at least once.

3. 12 percent of people born in 1953 or earlier only dream in black-and-white dreams. Say whut.

4. Koalas sleep the longest with 22 hours per day, giraffes the shortest with only 1.9 hours per day, in short sessions of 5 to 10 minutes.

5. Blind people do see images in their dreams, except when they were born blind.

6. The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, and 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder experienced hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech, and memory loss. Yikes.

7. One in four married couples sleeps apart. That's pretty heavy actually.

8. During your REM sleep, your muscles are paralyzed. This is probably for protection to prevent you from actually acting out a dream.

9. Whales and dolphins always sleep only halfway. While one hemisphere of the brain takes a nap, the other half stays awake. And they alternate like that. This is necessary because they need to come up for air regularly.

10. Sleeping at work is normal in Japan, as it shows that you are exhausted from working so hard. #okedoeiikverhuisnaarJapan.