A few things you may not know about sleep

Like most new moms, Angela Gleich hasn't had a good night's rest since baby Alma came on the scene.

"I would probably get four hours here, and four hours there. Then, she wakes up and wants to feed and goes back to sleep," she said.

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Gleich isn't alone. Our first wacky sleep fact: The average new parent loses 1,056 hours of sleep the first year of their child's life. That's almost 44 days! But just how important is sleep?

"It is necessary for restoration. It is necessary for repair," said Alon Avidan, MD, Professor of Neurology at UCLA.

Another sleep fact: You can go two weeks without food but only 10 days without sleep!

Also, within five minutes of waking, you forget 50-percent of your dream. Within 10 minutes, 90-percent is gone.

And if you think pulling an all-nighter can help your performance, consider this: It can actually reduce your capacity for remembering new facts by 40-percent!

"If you don't get enough sleep, and you get in a chronic state of that, you look just like someone that has early-onset Alzheimer's," said Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, Founder and Chief Director at the Center for BrainHealth UT Dallas.

Another sleep fact: Doctors believe women need one hour of extra sleep each night compared to men.

Gleich still has disrupted sleep but she's able to fall asleep quicker, thanks to sleep relaxation videos she watches on YouTube.

"I think I sleep well" said Gleich.

That is if Alma sleeps well!

Here's one more sleep fact: Men have dreams about other men 70 percent of the time, but women dream about women and men equally.