Everything You Know About Sleep Is Wrong digg.com

Spicy food nightmares, swallowing spiders, and other sleep myths that are so very wrong. Sleep is an essential act of survival and a linchpin on which civilization is built. So why is it still such a mystery?

For as long as we’ve needed sleep — which is to say forever — humans have tried to make it better. And we have! Mattress technology is nuts (shoutout to Beautyrest for making the mattress of our dreams), someone invented pillows (insert praise hands here,) and family beds aren’t really a thing (unless you’re all about that Willy Wonka grandparent life.)