We can stop breathing when we want to. We can also “tell” our body to do what we want such as moving, holding, typing, etc. So why can’t we just “tell” our brain to go to sleep immediately instead of having to wait for it to fall asleep.
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There are a lot of functions we can’t control. You can’t control your digestion or your heart for example.
Hell, one of your examples of things we *Can* control is only half true. Go ahead, stop breathing. See how long you can stay like that, I’ll wait. Eventually you’ll start brearhing whether you want to or not. This is basically the same with sleep, just it happens on a 24 hour cycle rather than a ~3 second cycle like breath. You *can* keep yourself awake for a while, but eventually you’ll fall asleep.
Now I’m not gonna lie, sleep is pretty weird and we don’t really understand it, but there are plenty of thiings we do understand that we can’t control, that’s really not the weird part about sleep.
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