Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'
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Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest.
When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.
The lack of sleep also increases a man's stress hormone levels.
According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare better because they sleep more deeply.
Sleepless nights
Professor Gerhard Kloesch and colleagues at the University of Vienna studied eight unmarried, childless couples in their 20s.
Each couple was asked to spend 10 nights sleeping together and 10 apart while the scientists assessed their rest patterns with questionnaires and wrist activity monitors.
The next day the couples were asked to perform simple cognitive tests and had their stress hormone levels checked.
Although the men reported they had slept better with a partner, they fared worse in the tests, with their results suggesting they actually had more disturbed sleep.
But women apparently managed to sleep more deeply when they did eventually drop off, since they claimed to be more refreshed than their sleep time suggested.
Their stress hormone levels and mental scores did not suffer to the same extent as the men.
But the women still reported that they had the best sleep when they were alone in bed.
Bed sharing also affected dream recall. Women remembered more after sleeping alone and men recalled best after sex.
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i'm guessing wrist activity increased when they slept alone.Originally posted by kikq:Each couple was asked to spend 10 nights sleeping together and 10 apart while the scientists assessed their rest patterns with questionnaires and wrist activity monitors.
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Why do you get all the benefits, hon?
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lmaoOriginally posted by skid:i'm guessing wrist activity increased when they slept alone. -
if you want we can get separate bedsOriginally posted by Kuali Baba:Why do you get all the benefits, hon? 
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Or I'll find some kinky way, as usual.Originally posted by kikq:if you want we can get separate beds 
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what?? doesn't men fall asleep straightaway after sex? why women sleep better than us?
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Men who do that wonder if they should be cuddling instead.Originally posted by The man who was death:what?? doesn't men fall asleep straightaway after sex? why women sleep better than us? -
WOW! No wonder I passed my exams ...Originally posted by kikq:Bed sharing also affected dream recall. Women remembered more after sleeping alone and men recalled best after sex.
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just so you know...we dont want the detailsOriginally posted by Dogtor:WOW! No wonder I passed my exams ... -
study consisted of white guys
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so both man and woman says the oppposite of the study's findings.
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I believe the article is talking about remembering dreams, not texts...Originally posted by Dogtor:WOW! No wonder I passed my exams ...
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he studied in his dreams.Originally posted by Kuali Baba:I believe the article is talking about remembering dreams, not texts... -
stupid researches.
few years later they'll come up with something else and void this one. -
What's certain is that we all enjoy it.Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:stupid researches.
few years later they'll come up with something else and void this one. -
And you are a white chick.Originally posted by alexkusu:study consisted of white guys
whew~! -
*COUGH* BS *COUGH*Originally posted by iveco:And you are a white chick. -
They used childless couples in the study...but I guess both with get even less sleep. It's not looking good.
*Wonders what the effects on same-sex couples are*