During an average life span, a person spends how many years sleeping?

When considering the average human being lives to 79 years old and sleeps for 7 hours a night, the average person spends around 26 years of their life asleep. This is the equivalent of 9,490 days. Many humans also spend about 7 years trying to get to sleep.

Humans need to sleep in order to boost mental and physical well-being. This helps control and improve the immune system, fertility, and weight regulation. Between 1% and 3% of the population can survive on short amounts of sleep, but for most people, lack of sleep can cause health problems over time.

Sleep experts suggest that instead of tossing and turning (for 7 years), people should try breathing exercises, reading, bathing and other relaxing activities to make the body and mind sleepy.

Experts have also calculated that humans spend 8.3 years watching television, 4.5 years eating, 235 days queueing, 115 days laughing, but only 1.3 years exercising. All these figures are based on the average human life, but the results will differ from person to person, especially between different countries and cultures.