AP PSYCHOLOGY

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

PSYCHOLOGY OF SLEEP

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The average person spends about ____ of their life dreaming.
A
15 years
B
6 years
C
1 day
D
15 hours
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In a lifetime, we spend about 25 years asleep, and six years or more are spent dreaming.

Detailed explanation-2: -The average person spends about 26 years sleeping in their life which equates to 9, 490 days or 227, 760 hours. Surprisingly, we also spend 7 years trying to get to sleep. That’s 33 years or 12, 045 days spent in bed! But what’s so special about sleep?

Detailed explanation-3: -On average we humans spend just over a year on romance (which includes buying flowers and going on dates but mostly includes nookie). We also spend four and a half years eating. Mmmm, food.

Detailed explanation-4: -How much of your life is spent at work? Writer Annie Dillard famously said, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” For many of us, a large portion of our days is spent at work; in fact, the average person will spend 90, 000 hours at work over a lifetime.

Detailed explanation-5: -The average human spends roughly 79 years or 28, 835 days on Earth. So, there is an average of 692, 040 hours in a lifetime.

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