Luxury Bedding Set Central

# 10,000 years ago, in the Neolithic period, people began sleeping on primitive "beds."

# 3400 BCE. Egyptian pharaohs discover the benefits of raising a pallet off the earth. King Tutankahmen had a bed of ebony and gold. Common people slept on palm bows heaped in the corner of their home.

# Roman Empire. First luxury bed. Often decorated with gold, silver or bronze, these beds featured mattresses stuffed with reeds, hay, wool or feathers.

# Roman Empire. Romans discover the waterbed. The sleeper would recline in a cradle of warm water until drowsy, then be lifted onto an adjacent cradle with a mattress, where they would be rocked to sleep.

# Renaissance. Mattresses were made of pea shucks or straw, sometimes feathers, stuffed into coarse ticks, then covered with sumptuous velvets, brocades and silks.

# Louis XIV was inordinately fond of staying in bed, often holding court in the royal bedroom. Reportedly, he owned 413 beds and displayed a special liking for the ultra spacious and ostentatious variety.
16th and 17th centuries. Mattresses were generally stuffed with straw or down, placed atop a latticework of rope.

# The late 18th century. Advent of the cast iron bed and cotton mattresses. Together, they provided a sleeping space that was less attractive to bugs. Until that time, assorted vermin were simply accepted as an accepted component of even the most royal beds.

# 1865. The first coil spring construction for bedding was patented.

# 1930's. Innerspring mattresses and upholstered foundations became serious contenders for the dominant position they now enjoy in the U.S. and Canada.

# 1940's. Futons introduced to North America.

# 1950's. Foam rubber mattresses and pillows appeared on the market.

# The expression "sleep tight" comes from the 16th and 17th centuries when mattresses were placed on top of ropes that needed regular tightening.
1960's. Modern waterbed introduced. Adjustable beds become popular with consumers.

# 1980's. Airbeds introduced.

# 1990's. Spacious sleeping is once again on the rise. In 1999, the queen-size mattress became America's most popular choice for mattress size - for the first time ever - beating the twin.

# 2000's. Choice and comfort are key words in contemporary bedding. In addition to an almost unlimited range of innerspring mattress designs, new types of foam mattress cores (such as "memory" or visco-elastic foam and refinements to traditional latex) as well as airbeds, waterb

One third of our lives is spent sleeping.

In your lifetime, you would've spent about 6 years of it dreaming. That is more than 2,100 days spent in a different world.

Dreams have been here as long as mankind. Back in the Roman Era, striking and significant dreams were submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.

Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because you do not remember your dream does not mean that you did not dream.

Dreams are indispensable. A lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.

We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night.

Blind people do dream. Whether visual images will appear in their dream depends on whether they where blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses.

Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.

The word dream stems from the Middle English word, dreme which means "joy" and "music".

Studies have shown that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.

Dreamers who are awakened right after REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than those who slept through the night until morning.

Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until the age of 3 or 4.

If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

Nightmares are common in children, typically beginning at around age 3 and occurring up to age 8.

In a poll, 67% of Americans have experienced Deja Vu in their dreams, occurring more often in females than males.