Number 24: As far as resting your body is concerned, sleep doesn't really make much of a difference.

24. 睡眠並不會真的「讓你身體休息」這件事上造成多少差別

8 hours of sleep will save you 50 kilo calories.

8 小時的睡眠會讓你少消耗 50 大卡洛里

That's roughly the same amount of energy as in a piece of toast.

差不多跟一片吐司的熱量一樣

Number 23: The real reason you sleep is because your brain needs it.

23. 你的腦袋需要休息是你睡覺真正的原因

But it's not like your brain just shuts down.

但是實際上它並不是真的是在休息

It actually gets more active than it is during the day.

其實它比在白天還要活躍

Number 22: So, basically the idea of sleeping to rest is for the most part wrong.

22. 所以基本上大部分對於睡覺是休息的觀念是錯誤的

If you don't sleep though, after only 17 hours you'll start to experience cognitive difficulty with remembering and perceiving things.

如果你一直沒睡覺超過 17 小時之後，你會開始感到記憶與感知理解上有困難

Number 21: Your pain tolerance will decrease and you'll become more sensitive to stimuli.

21. 你的疼痛忍耐力會下降，而且你對刺激也會變得更敏感

Number 20: You'll probably gain weight because during sleep your body releases hormones that regulate your appetite.

20. 你會變胖，因為當你在睡覺時你的身體會分泌可以控制食慾的賀爾蒙

Number 19: In fact, after 24 hours you'll be functionally worse off than someone with a blood alcohol level of .05%.

事實上，24 小時過後，你身體的機能會比血液含有酒精濃度 0.05% 的人還差

Number 18: If you decided to give up both food and sleep indefinitely,

18. 如果你決定同時無限期地不睡覺和不吃東西

you would likely die from sleep deprivation before you starved to death.

你會先死於睡眠不足

Number 17: In spite of that, the longest officially verified record for sleep deprivation without stimulants is 11 days.

17. 儘管如此，11 天 沒有睡覺且沒有任何外物刺激是目前已被證實的最久記錄

It was accomplished in 1965 by high school student Randy Gardner under strict scientific supervision.

這是 1965 年由一位高中生 Randy Gardner 在嚴密的科學監測中所完成的

Number 16: Since then the Guinness Book of World Records has stopped keeping records for fear that people might harm themselves.

16. 從那時開始，金氏世界紀錄就停止記錄這個，因為怕人們可能會為此傷害身體

Number 15: Some mammals like giraffes and Asiatic elephants typically sleep less than 2 hours per night.

15. 有些哺乳動物，像是長頸鹿和亞洲象每晚的睡眠時間少於 2 小時

Number 14: Koalas are the longest sleeping mammal at 22 hours per day.

14. 無尾熊每天睡 22 小時，是睡覺時間最長的哺乳動物

Number 13: When dolphins sleep, only half their brain loses consciousness.

13. 海豚睡覺時只有一半的腦是沒有意識的

This helps them to maintain breathing because unlike humans, dolphins and whales are conscious breathers.

這幫助他們維持呼吸，因為跟人類不一樣的是海豚和鯨魚是意識的呼吸者

Number 12: Ever since the advent of color television, studies claim that the percentage of people dreaming in color has increased significantly.

12. 研究顯示，自從彩色電視出現後，人們做彩色的夢的比例有明顯增加

Number 11: If you don't dream, the prevailing consensus is that you most likely have some sort of personality disorder.

11. 如果你不做夢，一種普遍說法是很有可能是你有某種人格或個性上的問題

Number 10: Don't panic though, within 10 minutes of waking up almost all of your dreams will be forgotten.

10. 別感到恐慌，你做的夢你會在起床後的 10 分鐘內忘記

Number 9: You can allegedly only dream about faces you have already seen.

9. 你會發現只會夢到你曾看過的人

Number 8: To extend this, people blind from birth typically have dreams involving smell, taste, emotion, and touch.

8. 在出生時即眼盲的人的夢常會牽連到嗅覺、味覺、感覺、觸覺

Number 7: Parasomnia is a sleep disorder that causes involuntary actions and movements during sleep.

7. 異睡症是一種造成睡眠中不自覺行為和行動的睡眠疾病

Number 6: Benign forms of parasomnia involve sleep talking and sleep walking.

6. 異睡症狀況較好的是說夢話和夢遊

The more serious types have led to sleep driving, robberies, and even rape or murder.

更嚴重的還會導致在睡夢中開車，搶劫，甚至是強暴或謀殺

Number 5: British soldiers were the first to develop a method of consistently staying up without sleep.

5. 英國士兵第一個發明可以持續熬夜不需要睡覺的方法

When they got fatigued, they would put on special visors that simulated the brightness of a sunrise and woke them up.

就是當他們感到疲累時，他們會帶上一個特別的面甲，那可以假造出像陽光的光線叫醒他們

Number 4: A survey of 6,000 British adults found that listening to Coldplay did in fact make them more likely to fall asleep.

4. 一個針對 6,000 名英國成人的調查發現，聽 Coldplay 的歌事實上讓他們更容易入睡

Number 3: It has also been scientifically proven that counting sheep is an ineffective method for falling asleep.

3. 科學上已經證實數羊並不會幫助入睡

Number 2: Somniphobia is the fear of sleep.

2. 睡眠恐懼症指的是害怕睡覺這件事

And number 1: Speaking of fear…an adult bed bug can survive up to 1 year without feeding.

1. 說到可怕的事…一隻床蟲成蟲沒有東西可以吃也可以活一年