We sleep more than ever

amsterdam - Despite all the stress and the smartphones that control our lives, we sleep better than in the 70s for example.

That is a remarkable result of a British study by the University of Oxford. We sleep on average even 43 minutes longer at night, according to The Independent.

The researchers were able to compare well because in 1974 the sleep behavior of 15,000 people had been extensively reviewed. In 1974 we slept on average at 7 a.m. The same question was put back last year, and it turns out that we go to sleep half an hour earlier (23.00 hours) and wake up for fifteen minutes (7.20 goes the alarm).

Unemployed people sleep an hour or more and retirees 27 minutes.

The researchers at Oxford mention recent studies showing that we sleep less and less nonsense. There is usually asked how many hours we 'think' to sleep. But people underestimate sleeping hours, because they overestimate their active hours.

Do we sleep longer because we are exhausted because of the stress and all screens? Oxford continues to find out what the cause is.