IF YOU have ever thought you were stupid to sleep with someone, consider this. Sharing your bed could actually make you stupid if you are a man - at least temporarily.

Even without having sex, bed sharing disturbs sleep quality, say Gerhard Kloesch and colleagues from the University of Vienna, Austria. The team recruited eight unmarried, childless couples, and used questionnaires and a wrist activity monitor, an "actigraph", to assess sleep patterns after 10 nights together and 10 apart.

Men and women fared differently. While men thought they slept better with a partner, and women believed they didn't, actually both sexes had more disturbed sleep, even when they did not have sex. Lack of sleep led to increased stress hormone levels in men, and reduced their ability to perform simple cognitive tests the next day.

However, the women apparently slept more deeply when they did sleep, since they claimed to be more refreshed than their sleep time suggested. Their stress levels and mental scores did not suffer to the same extent.

Kloesch presented his work at a meeting of the Forum of European Neurosciences in Vienna last week.

Sleeping with someone also affected dream recall, with women remembering more after sleeping alone and men recalling best after sex.

Culled from the New Scientist

There could be some truth in that, but if sharing a bed with my girlfriend makes me stupid, id rather be a stupid ass for life

You know recently we have a lot of doctors on nairaland.
thanx for sharing Funloving

Raymand:

There could be some truth in that, but if sharing a bed with my girlfriend makes me stupid, id rather be a stupid ass for life

Thatz funny Raymand.

Moved to Health section

Raymand,
hahahahahaha that is so funny but true.

I would rather be stupid than to be a lonely old man

Raymand:

There could be some truth in that, but if sharing a bed with my girlfriend makes me stupid, id rather be a stupid ass for life

lol that very hilarious but true ,
am sorry oh but i have to sleep with my baby on the bed to feel more secure and have peaceful sleep, rather then feeling lonely and depress sleeping by myself. And if my baby is not here, my friends sleep by side on my bed but that only happpens om weekend.

No wonder so many guys are not so bright

Sweetchick

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmn

No wonder so many guys are not so bright

including your b/friend?

jus kidding

maybe true but who gives credence to all those "bookish" pple and their findings.

No wonder I am so stupid, cos I always have my wifey with me!!!

nairaland

Personally, i really dn't like sharing my bed except when sex is involved.just dn't find it comfortable

anoda one

Really hilarious, but true