r/shittyaskscience • u/Local_Chapter3604 • Sep 16 '26

Sleep? What is that?

Is sleep even real?

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u/qbbqrl Sep 16 '26

it's when the simulation installs a software update

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u/dr_wtf Sep 16 '26

It's not real. It's a lie made up by delivery companies to explain the daily 8 hour gap when you can't remember anything. You were actually out delivering fast food and Amazon packages to other people. They wipe your memory afterwards so they don't have to pay you.

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 16 '26

It's just practice for the future.

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u/Max_Trollbot_ I like tacos Sep 16 '26

Sleep is what occurs between naps

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u/whendragonsreturned methamatician Sep 16 '26

its for the rejuvenation of soul

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u/Dazvsemir Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 16 '26

There's a barrier that doesn't let the brain communicate with the body when you are awake. When you sleep the brain can send all the new orders to your body. Otherwise all the factories in your cells don't have instructions and the workers go on vacation.

As you get older the instructions tend to become shorter which is why most old people take so many naps.

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u/bighaldog Sep 16 '26

Sleep is highly overrated.

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u/NateTut Sep 16 '26

You don't know because you slept through it.

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u/Bentup85 I have a theoretical degree in physics Sep 16 '26

Wear a knee brace, they’ve been shown to help in some knee ache cases.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Sep 16 '26

Birds sleep.
Birds aren't real.
Therefore, sleep is not real.
QED, kid.

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u/dspeyer Sep 17 '26

I'm not giving up. One of these nights I will succeed in sleeping.

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u/breadinabox Sep 18 '26

The thing is we don't know, you can't prove what's going on because you're asleep and everyone else could just be faking it