AP PSYCHOLOGY

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

PSYCHOLOGY OF SLEEP

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
We spend ____ of our lives sleeping.
A
1/4
B
1/3
C
1/2
D
none of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sleeping Given that an average a person sleeps for 8 hours in a day, that means that an average person will sleep for 229, 961 hours in their lifetime or basically one third of their life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Handb Clin Neurol. 2011; 98:vii. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52006-7.00047-2.

Detailed explanation-3: -That’s right, four and a half years of your life will be spent eating.

Detailed explanation-4: -That’s one third of your life spent unconscious. From an evolutionary standpoint, sleep is quite literally a waste of your time, yet it’s fought its way through countless years of adaptation in nearly every living animal on Earth.

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