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Chris Idzikowski, of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, has linked each of the the six most common sleeping positions to a personality type. He says, “We are all aware of our body language when we are awake but this is the first time we have been able to see what our subconscious posture says about us.”

The most common sleep position, used by 41% of the 1,000 people he surveyed, is the “fetus” position. If you sleep all curled up, you’re tough on the outside but have a sensitive heart. You’re shy when you first meet someone, but you relax later. Twice as many women sleep this way as men.
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You taste in reading shows the kinds of dreams you have, and adults who read fiction have stranger dreams than nonfiction readers?and are more likely to remember their dreams. Fans of fantasy and science fiction have more nightmares and ?lucid? dreams (in which they?re aware that they?re dreaming). Readers of romance novels have especially emotional dreams.

This information was discovered by researchers from the University of Wales who divided more than 10,000 readers into different personality types based on the books they chose, and asked them to complete questionnaires about their dreams. The researchers believe that different personality types have different kinds of dreams.
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Nearly half the population of Singapore suffers from insomnia. A survey released by the European pharmaceutical company Sanofil-Synthelabo shows that among 430 Singaporeans polled, 46 percent were categorized as suffering from insomnia.

Only 27 percent of them were aware of their condition and a high level of the respondents were unclear about the symptoms of the disorder. Forty-nine percent thought insomnia only meant the inability to sleep.

But according to the drug company, it also means the inability to fall asleep within 30 minutes of lying in bed, difficulty in going back to sleep again after being woken up, sleeping less than six hours a night and a general dissatisfaction with the quality of sleep.
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People who reported sleeping more than eight hours a night have a 15% greater chance of dying, for any reason, than people who sleep seven hours a night. The same danger exists for those who sleep less than four or five hours, according to researchers from the University of California and the American Cancer Society.

The use of sleeping pills is also associated with an increased death rate of 25%. However, insomniacs were not found to have any increased risk.
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