Why can’t we go to sleep on demand like how we are controlling other parts of the body?

Question

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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Answer 1

Initial question: sleep is something that we know very little about

also: actions like holding, typing, moving, etc are actions performed by muscles (specifically skeletal muscles) while sleep is not a muscular action. so you can’t compare the actions of skeletal muscles to the action of sleep