Eli5: Why do we need to sleep so much, what happens in the body when asleep that cannot happen while normal resting or relaxing? Or is it just for the brain?
In: Biology
I think I read somewhere what was probably a theory that when you sleep, you’re flushing cerebro spinal fluid through your brain and kind of physically self cleaning your brain. That would be in addition to filing all your thoughts and memories.
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