--- title: 30 Crazy Sleep Facts description: Did you know a new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life? That's almost 44 days... canonical: https://time.com/70415/30-crazy-sleep-facts/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-21T17:13:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:57.483Z og:title: 30 crazy things you didn't know about sleep og:description: Did you know a new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life? That's almost 44 days... og:url: https://time.com/70415/30-crazy-sleep-facts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 30 crazy things you didn't know about sleep twitter:description: Did you know a new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life? That's almost 44 days... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 30 Crazy Things You Didn't Know About Sleep by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Apr 21, 2014 5:13 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Apr 21, 2014 5:13 PM UTC Sleepy’s mattress retailer is pretty pro-sleep. So to help educate a consumer base —and, you know, promote — the company came up with a list of 30 “insane” facts about it. They range from the awesome (gamers are more likely to be able to control their dreams) to depressing (a new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child’s life… that’s almost 44 days.) Explore more [visuals](http://visual.ly) like this one on the web’s largest information design community – [Visually](http://visual.ly). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/70415/30-crazy-sleep-facts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/70415/30-crazy-sleep-facts/"},"headline":"30 Crazy Things You Didn't Know About Sleep","datePublished":"2014-04-21T17:13:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:57.483Z","description":"A new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life… that's almost 44 days","url":"https://time.com/70415/30-crazy-sleep-facts/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","infographic","Sleep","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/70415/30-crazy-sleep-facts/","name":"30 Crazy Things You Didn't Know About Sleep"}}]}] ```