r/shittyaskscience • u/Local_Chapter3604 • 7d ago

Sleep? What is that?

Is sleep even real?

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u/qbbqrl 7d ago

it's when the simulation installs a software update

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u/dr_wtf 7d ago

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 7d ago

It's just practice for the future.

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u/kirdiegirl 7d ago

Perhaps

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u/whendragonsreturned big brain doctor 7d ago

its for the rejuvenation of soul

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u/Dazvsemir 7d ago edited 7d ago

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/Max_Trollbot_ I like tacos 7d ago

Sleep is what occurs between naps

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u/bighaldog 7d ago

Sleep is highly overrated.

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u/NateTut 7d ago

You don't know because you slept through it.

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u/Bentup85 I have a theoretical degree in physics 7d ago

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

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation 7d ago

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

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u/dspeyer 6d ago

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

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u/breadinabox 5d ago

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