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and my Dog had to go potty so
originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
If you dont sleep reality starts to crack up.Therefore sleep is required to maintain the reality. The question is if you are asleep in this world, are you concious in the other one while being in either can you remember the other. As the memory fades quite quickly. Probably because their it has no survival reason . But their does appear to be an objective other state.
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
Physical beings need rest because the battery of the body is usually in heavy use....
without rest, said bodies die as a battery
But there is more to life then just the Physical
originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
If you dont sleep reality starts to crack up.Therefore sleep is required to maintain the reality. The question is if you are asleep in this world, are you concious in the other one while being in either can you remember the other. As the memory fades quite quickly. Probably because their it has no survival reason . But their does appear to be an objective other state.
I had an idea. If humans had at one time not needed sleep, then maybe some animals now don't need sleep.
i would imagine there are some insects or arachnids that don't require sleep .
While scientists can’t say for certain that every animal sleeps, most creatures in the animal kingdom do, indeed, catch some zzz's. But not all animals experience sleep in the same way.
For example, one animal may go through different stages of sleep than another. Insects and fish, unlike some birds and all mammals, don't experience Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. REM sleep is when most dreams occur.
The number of hours than an animal sleeps can also vary widely. Cats sleep, on average, for 15 hours a day, while rats clock up to 20 hours a day. Smaller animals, which often have higher rates of brain metabolism, tend to require more sleep, while larger animals generally get less sleep.
Even the way that an animal snoozes can be different. Interestingly, horses, cows, and giraffes can sleep while standing, but need to lie down for short stints for REM sleep.
Dolphins, as well as some other aquatic mammals and some birds, utilize something called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep. This allows one half of the brain to sleep while the other remains awake so that long, non-stop migrations are possible.
But some sleep behaviors are similar across the animal kingdom.
Do all animals sleep?
a reply to: pthena
Insects and fish don't dream.
Dolphins and migratory birds sleep with one side of the brain at a time. There are your awake and dreaming simultaneous people.
originally posted by: Specimen88
Supposedly when dreaming, we only dream about things or places we know about. So alot of weird, vague dreams might as well just abstractions of memory. Same thing could be said about lucid an controlled dreams too, but awareness the difference possibly.
Also, supposedly in the deepest state of sleep, the brain does not dream at all, dreaming only happens in the second deepest stage. The third one doesnt dream too but that cause of activity, while the deepest minimal so the brain can recharge.