A REAL EYE OPENER

New website lifts the lid on how sleep deprived you actually are and you may be surprised by the results

The lost sleep calculator could change how you think about your shut-eye

LAUREN WINDLE

Published: 0:40, 12 Jan 2017

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THINK you’re totting up enough hours of sleep every night? You may want to think again.

This handy new tool, the Lost Sleep Calculator reveals your sleep loss over the course of a week, month, year or even your lifetime.

The new sleep calculator can help you work out how much sleep you're missing — The new sleep calculator can help you work out how much sleep you're missingCredit: hillarys

The handy tool also tells you what you could have been doing with that time — The handy tool also tells you what you could have been doing with that timeCredit: hillarys

The website also exposes how long each person tosses and turns in bed thinking about things distracting things like food, work and sex.

Designed by Hillarys.co.uk visitors to the have to input their age and the amount of sleep they had the night before.

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The tool then works out if the individual has slept enough or not and calculates how much sleep they are losing over the course of a longer time frame, like a month or year.

Using data from a survey of more than 2.5 thousand adult Brits, Hillarys.co.uk worked out how long a user spends restless in bed because of other thoughts.

They polled 2550 people to investigate what thoughts keep us awake a night — They polled 2550 people to investigate what thoughts keep us awake a nightCredit: hillarys

They also investigated the physical factors which affect our sleep — They also investigated the physical factors which affect our sleepCredit: hillarys

The poll discovered that most of us are kept up at night with thoughts of things like arguments with friends and family or sex with our partners.

The site also reported a correlation between lack of sleep and increased bad moods and feelings of loneliness.

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