[OmqMZtkv]

But of course .... Interesting about people's views of their own competence. As it was an online survey no independent confirming / disputing data

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-0...-finds/3936712

Sleeping with pets better for rest, study finds

Posted April 06, 2012 07:35:18

Queensland researchers say a new study has found people get a better night's sleep with pets in their bed rather than a partner.

Researchers at Central Queensland University did an online study into sleep patterns with more than 13,000 people earlier this year.

Professor Drew Dawson says about 70 per cent of respondents were regularly woken at night.

"Partners were more likely to be disruptive than pets, and particularly people reporting partners who snored and partners who got up to go to the toilet and therefore turned the lights on," he said.

"Again, one of the things that is very interesting in the way bedrooms have changed in the last 20 or 30 years is the extent to which ensuite bathrooms have intruded into the bedroom."
Dozing workers

Professor Dawson also says the study found more than a third of all workers doze off on the job.

"Interestingly the more work you do - that is the more hours you work, the less sleep you believe you need," he said.

"Also managers, the more senior they were, thought they needed much less sleep to perform well.

"I think there's many people in workplaces that would agree with them."

[Peertantyb]

You may arrive at a different conclusion if your pet was a Great Dane, or 200 kg pig called Precious.

[zoppiklonikaa]

Queensland researchers say a new study has found people get a better night's sleep with pets in their bed rather than a partner. Its not the pet in the bed that is the problem - its the pets pets that are the problem.

As to ensuites intruding into the bedroom I think that they might be slightly less intrusive than chamber pots were.

I really do have doubts about the rigour of an online survey and how representative it really is.

[OmqMZtkv]

I really do have doubts about the rigour of an online survey and how representative it really is.

Shirley not? It's science man, science ... or not

and yes LooktoSee a 200kg pet pig would make sharing quite difficult, or require a very large bed

[KraskiNetu]

Someone popped into the old science forum once and answered the quite oft asked question of why we need sleep something like 'so you're not tired while you are awake'. It was like commonsense folk wisdom trumped a century of science.

Probably if modern society were scrutinized a theme of incursive temporal controls might be noted. There is nothing more subjective than how the mind incorporates experience in the sleep state, and vital as it is the pressure to be goal driven and objective 24/7 must have a downside.

All this rigour you know.

Some haven't a clue why people tend to sleep with another, to whatever extent people do sleep together.

Humans are animals, and a lot of people, most even, are sleeping happily with their companion animal. All that sleeping, sex and grunting etc, seems animal to me.

[Effopsytupt]

All this rigour you know.

...
Humans are animals, and a lot of people, most even, are sleeping happily with their companion animal. All that sleeping, sex and grunting etc, seems animal to me.

My one-track mind thought, "rigour? rig ... oh, not rigor mortis ... thinking " ... sleep ... "

And I do like the explicit connection animals / humans, as we ARE.
I hesitate to generalise ... and feel a bit "exposed" even saying so, but perhaps one of the costly "refinements" of humankind is that making noise(s) seems shameful and so, inhibited.
This is not a considered comment ... made without much thought, but it occurs to me that (royal :P) we use "animal" perjoratively of noisy humans.
(this is a tangent and a distraction, I know ... but the seemingly uncomplicated and undemanding nature of companion animals (other than the human kind) might well be one of the reasons for greater comfort(ing) and even well-being.

dunno.

[alenbarbaf]

Sounds like a good theory.

Combined with the fact that you can kick the dog out of bed for farting or snoring, without a second thought. Strangely, human companions find this inconsiderate...

[Effopsytupt]

Sounds like a good theory.

Combined with the fact that you can kick the dog out of bed for farting or snoring, without a second thought. Strangely, human companions find this inconsiderate...

really?

:P

[Menierofe]

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Queensland researchers say a new study has found people get a better night's sleep with pets in their bed rather than a partner.

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I would have thought if the whole argument is based around disturbed sleep, then sleeping sans human and/or furry partners would be the best option...

Did those doing the survey ask for respondents who may co-habituate with other humans but share seperate beds to answer...? Did they ask sad, lonely non-pet owners like myself as to how good their sleep is?

And a third of people fall asleep at work? Refs please you QLD reseachers, find this bit hard to take without qualification/explanation as to how that figure was arrived at (and what actual inference is it you seem to be making from your research)?



I'll happily put this one forward for next year's Ig Nobel Prize...

[OmqMZtkv]

Woolly, I did look for the published article that might answer all or some of these questions. However, alas, have not found it.

[KraskiNetu]

>>>and particularly people reporting partners who snored and partners who got up to go to the toilet and therefore turned the lights on,"

Install red lights like in submarines, additional to silent mode should work well.

On that subject, for a distraction ;-) http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/49698

"Control is normally rigged for red while underway at night. This is because the eyes more readily adjust to the night time conditions during periscope operations. Even low level lighting (non-red lighting) affects the eyes adversely enough to cause several minutes of time to fully adjust to night time vision.

Coming to PD (Periscope Depth) is the most dangerous routine evolution performed on a submarine because this is the time when you are most likely to have a collision with another ship. You do not have the luxury of allowing your eyes several minutes to adjust during this evolution"

[Riprincattiva]

Interesting. Personally, I find sleeping next to my husband considerably less irritating than a cat who always lodges himself in an awkard position around my legs. And dogs on a bed, I find, a bit yuk. People tend to understand the concept of personal space better than animals.

[Nurba]

Pet fur on things is a problem imo.

[suilusargaino]

Although it's not stated as such
(it inquires an either/or choice....either human or animal companions)
it set me to wondering about the choice of sleeping together at all...

I was wondering if people get more restful sleep because they instinctively
(and subconsciously) feel safer sleeping with a being with a superior sense
of hearing and sight under low light conditions.

[CoiI8XIj]

Rare but... zoonoses?

[CoiI8XIj]

Also rare but there are reports of dogs eating parts of their owns while they sleep. Usually there are extenuating circumstances.

[alenbarbaf]

Must be deep sleepers!

[Menierofe]

Also rare but there are reports of dogs eating parts of their owns while they sleep.

Wow, and here I was thinking dogs were lucky 'coz the can lick parts of their own...

[DexOnenlyCymn]

Rare but... zoonoses?

Not so rare nut!

[OmqMZtkv]

Also rare but there are reports of dogs eating parts of their owns while they sleep. Usually there are extenuating circumstances.

Like the humans are dead? My dogs are welcome to eat me when I am dead.