Does anyone else find the concept of sleep mental?

[vivi45]

Probably a very weird thought process but I’m just laying here, ready to go to sleep thinking how strange it is that we spend so much of our life unconscious. If I sleep from 11pm-7am which is normal for me, I will have slept the equivalent of my work day. All of the things I’ve done during the day, meals I’ve eaten, people I’ve spoken to, places I’ve been - and I’ll spend that same amount of time just laid in bed asleep. Also find it weird how the world just carries on while we are oblivious to it.

Sorry I know this is incredibly random 😂

I think its a typo "this is a very odd thread"
Don't know what they are finding creepy but maybe they are thinking things they've never thought about.

I love the idea of hibernation and missing winter.

Who? Mostly the Unions.

Why? Because otherwise we'd be working seven till seven, seven days a week.

Yep, we need sleep because if we go without it for long periods of time, we go bonkers

I find it weird that in terraced houses particularly, we are only separated from our neighbours bedroom by one wall, the same as we are from our own family members. If you could see through walls and stood outside, it would essentially be a row of strangers sleeping in one long row at the same time, separated by just a wall

Yep, we need sleep because if we go without it for long periods of time, we go bonkers

And....if you think about it money doesn't really exist, yet people kill and hurt other people to own something that doesn't exist...weird or what?

I dream under anaesthetic, but I have narcolepsy so this might be why.

Sorry if someone has already mentioned this, but did you know that in the medieval period we had two sleeps? It's well documented in writing at the time that there was a 'first sleep' and a 'second sleep', and everyone did it. They believe that agricultural and industrial revolution changed our sleeping habits to one big sleep per day.

I makes an interesting Google rabbit hole if you're interested.

It's been done using Amyl Nitrate or probably other chemicals. The military have done extensive sleep deprivation tests over the years

I think this all of the time. We spend a third of our lives asleep! I also think its bizarre how we fall asleep with our eyeballs starring at the back of our eye lids!

I’m another who thinks it’s weird that humans can just make up names for illnesses and conditions and decide that certain people fit into them.

We have put names to things, like ASD, ADHD, OCD etc, but the reality is that humans have just made up the parameters that people must fit into to meet these things that they have made up names for.
Everything is just made up. Weird.

that’s true, you just work for numbers on your phone screen in your banking app or you can’t live! head f#%k!

Yes! I’ve gone through the exact same thought process many times! Have you ever watched humans? I almost compare us to that, like computers that have to switch ourselves off at night, it’s really weird! 🤣

I think this about religion. Evolution proves there is no god. So religion really is just a load of made up stuff from a time when science wasn’t understood and people needed answers as to where they came from.

Yet people kill other people and start wars over something that doesn’t exist. People dedicate their whole lives, and sometimes careers, to something that doesn’t exist.
Thats crazy really.

evolution does not prove there is no God

Yes I think the same thing. All those different people with their different lives

It proves humans evolved and weren’t made by a non-existent man with magical powers.

Science has never managed to get before 'the big bang' how did the big bang happen?

Evolution has never explained how macro evolution happened.
Theres a theory that single cell organisims evolved into multiple organed beings but nothing explains how?
Nor has anything explained different sexes or the complicated reproduction systems.

This is why. We need to respect it more, not try to avoid it!
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/why-we-sleep-book-matthew-walker-9780141983769?sku=GOR008882090

I've loved reading this thread!
I have hypnogogic hallucinations, shout out to everyone who has them too!

Regarding tears, I read in a big book of facts, when I was about ten years old, that the tears we cry when we're upset or sad are different from those when we're crying with laughter, in that the sad tears contain a stress-relieving enzyme that helps us to deal with whatever is troubling us.

Some of us still do this - I always wake up about three hours after I've gone to sleep, get up for an hour, then go back to bed for another three or four hours.

Anyway...if the OP thinks sleep's weird, try looking up unihemispheric slow-wave sleep. Basically, it's where only one half of the brain sleeps at a time and the eye attached to the awake side stays alert for predators. Dolphins, seals, ducks...they all do it. There are even some birds which do it during long flights.

Humans even have an equivalent of this when sleeping in unfamiliar environments called the "first night effect", where the right hemisphere sometimes experiences a lighter level of sleep.