: What is the state of our mind when we fall asleep? Is our mind/brain going ‘shut down’ and is if so, how can we wake up instantly?
In: Biology
It’s the opposite of shutting down really. When we’re asleep, our brains are buzzing with activity as regenerative activities take place, memory is consolidated, and garbage is metaphorically taken out.
It’s specific regions of our brain that operate in a suppressed state during most phases of sleep, and those regions are responsible for our “wakefulness”. Our ability to rapidly emerge from sleep in response to stimuli is due to the rapid reactivation of those regions and subsequent exit from sleep.
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