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

We can’t just tell our brain and certain parts of our body what to do. If we could drugs would be useless. Everyone would just intentionally flood it with dopamine and serotonin with a pinch of oxytocin while banging out successive orgasms.