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MEFun fact: The average person will spend about 26 years of their life asleep—roughly one-third of their entire existence. That's 9,490 days, or 227,760 hours, lying unconscious while your brain performs critical maintenance. During those years, your brain flushes out toxic waste products through the glymphatic system, consolidates memories, processes emotions, and repairs cellular damage. You'll have around 100,000 dreams over your lifetime, though you'll forget 95% of them within minutes of waking. You'll spend about 7 years just trying to fall asleep, and if you live to 80, you'll have spent approximately 12 years staring at screens before bed, 4 years tossing and turning, and countless hours chasing rest that always seems just out of reach. And yet, despite all that time spent asleep, scientists still don't fully understand why we need to do it.
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