The Mystery of Sleeping!

Despite the widely acknowledged fact that many people assume, ‘the main function of sleep is to rest your body,’ science still hasn't find the appropriate the adequate enough answer of what's the most important function or reason of the sleep. Why? Because science itself has not yet fully understood the main function of sleep, although every scientist will quickly agree that sleeping this is very important and vital function for a being as not only humans but all animals sleep as well.

For us sleep is extremely common thing as we sleep almost every single night, but for science sleep is one of the most complex unsolved great mysteries because scientist still doesn’t fully know the primary function of sleep, despite many failed attempts in past and ongoing full scale researches.

When it comes to solving the mystery, the sole question on which the entire mystery stands, is the core purpose why one sleeps? Plenty scientists share common believe that sleep is all about having to rest, and putting your body into quiet non-functioning mode, and that there are technically no other important worthy functions that sleep does for our body.

However on the contrary, there are still majority of scientists, who are completely convinced that sleep definitely must have at least some other important functions for our body and mind, rather than just rest for the body. They argue that sleep deprivation has resulted in numerous extremely negative effects, and that also not only on human population but also on any other animals as well. Different experiments conducted in those full scale researches carried out in the mystery solving, showed that with prolonged sleep deprivation can even end one’s life. This might ridiculed as the best way to die, is to just say alive. But actually rats, flies and cockroaches have actually died; proving in the experiments that long enough sleep deprivation is killing. Even humans who have a genetic insomnia, which means they cannot sleep as normal human beings, can also die so there has to be more to ‘sleep’ than just only rest.

Another very intriguing hypothesis made by several scientists, traces the reason for ‘sleeping’ to be important enough to accumulate new memories, hence reciprocally allowing the older ones to fade off the brain. They conclude that sleeping leads to forgetting the unimportant impressions of the previous day, so there is more free room for more learning the next day. But again, that’s also just another hypothetical unproven theory among hundreds other, in effort to solve the mystery of ‘SLEEP.’