Why is it necessary to sleep?

What's the longest time you've gone without sleep?
I can go a very long time without water, but sleep, one day at most. I don't think I have ever quite made it to two.

A week is out of the question!!

Why do you feel we need sleep and without it we will shut down???

I don't believe there is anyone who has gone 1 week without any sleep !

We need sleep to rest our eyes, recharge our bodies and to let our guides/ angels send us messages in our dreams.

I have gone without sleep for maybe 1 1/2 days, but then it took me a few days to catch up on the sleep.

Do you feel like you get a second wind, after you stay up past a certain hour and you are no longer tired ?

frisky fox

Let me think....the only time I went without sleep was flying to Australia one time.
It was a bit of a rough flight and the plane was was all over the place.   
This was the first step of the journey,left around 8am in the morning and I had a bad night sleeping the night before.  Always do worrying about the long journey ahead.
I was travelling on my own.
I never slept a wink on that journey.      I suppose the time must have been  equivalent to a night's sleep.

Then two hours or something like that in Singapore airport.   I was nodding by then....I was travelling straight through.  Caught the second flight which wasn't very long compared to the first.  It is a 22 hour journey to Oz.   
Strange though by the time I reached Oz,I was wide awake!

A cat nap can give us that extra charge we need. 

Man stays awake 11 days with no sleep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnf2YH2jms



Death to the man after 11 days of no sleep:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/man-dies-11-days-no-sleep-deprivation-jiang-xiaoshan_n_1631703.html

CW wrote:What's the longest time you've gone without sleep?
I can go a very long time without water, but sleep, one day at most. I don't think I have ever quite made it to two.

A week is out of the question!!

Why do you feel we need sleep and without it we will shut down???

I can go without a lot of things but sleep definitely isnt one of mine either.  I may of made it more than 24 hrs before, I dont recall.  It had to of been for something worthwhile thats for sure!

Rejuvenation is my answer.  Like a battery running down.

frisky fox wrote:Do you feel like you get a second wind, after you stay up past a certain hour and you are no longer tired ?

Yes, there has been times. 
I also find that I can go on little sleep (2-4hrs) and function fine.  Its that 5-7 hr bracket that leaves me groggy all day. Past 8 hrs Im good, but rarely happens when you have 3 kids. Birthday and Mothers Day...lol.

CW wrote:A cat nap can give us that extra charge we need. 

Man stays awake 11 days with no sleep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnf2YH2jms



Death to the man after 11 days of no sleep:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/man-dies-11-days-no-sleep-deprivation-jiang-xiaoshan_n_1631703.html

Was it the same guy!? I didnt download the youtube link. :happy:Morbid to laugh, but just reading the titles made me giggle.

No these are two different people. I am sure I've stayed awake longer than a day. Surely, stimulants were involved. 

looks like I was wrong about the no sleep for a week

Looks like a week without sleep can kill you.

We do need sleep, I think my longest without was 3 days, before I got ill last year I used to frequently skip sleep, I simply can't do it any more, but I can get by on two or three hours if I need to, but the longer I sleep the more tired I feel.

A balance............the physical world is dominated by the sun....and the spiritual world is dominated by the moon.

The physical world speaks to us in physical actions and voice............the spiritual world speaks to us without motion and in dreams

Do you sometimes feel as it this sleep time is something like reprogramming?

Mr.Whitmore wrote:A balance............the physical world is dominated by the sun....and the spiritual world is dominated by the moon.

The physical world speaks to us in physical actions and voice............the spiritual world speaks to us without motion and in dreams

Well said,Mr.Whitmore!
In dreams,our guard is down....like opening the door to the spirit world.

CW wrote:Do you sometimes feel as it this sleep time is something like reprogramming?

Good thinking,CW.    Rests the body and refreshes the mind.....

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CW wrote:Do you sometimes feel as it this sleep time is something like reprogramming?

I feel it's time the body needs total rest, I think bits of our bodies regenerate during sleep cells and such I also believe we heal as we sleep.

 and refreshes the mind....

I don't think the mind sleeps tbh, the brain might but not the mind, if the mind slept how would we dream.

Was thinking about that later on,Violet......

You are correct!    We have stuff coming from our subconscious at times which can cause nightmares....

CW, Interesting topic.

We need to sleep because if we don't out brain starts to shut down, that's if we don't slpee from 1-2weeks. If you go a month is likely that your whole body would shut down, the reason bechind that is that our body need to rest and build it again.

My body need rest but not my soul. Why is my soul so busy when my body is resting? Do we time travel when we fall asleep?

Scientists say that traven to the spirit world when we're asleep but we don't realise it.

http://www.fst.org/sptwld1.htm

In Lucid dreams,we do....

Lets look at it this way. The spirit is trapped inside the dody and the only way it can be free is; when ee fall asleep. I'l bet thete are times our spirit can't wait to be free from "mind. Ego. Physical confinement. Our behavior. Etc.....

I disagree because our spirit is the one that chose to live a physical experience.

CW wrote:Lets look at it this way. The spirit is trapped inside the dody and the only way it can be free is; when ee fall asleep. I'l bet thete are times our spirit can't wait to be free from "mind. Ego. Physical confinement. Our behavior. Etc.....

I can well believe that,CW.   The few times I have dreamed of being in the spirit world,everything feels and seems lighter.    I am happier except for waking up.
Back to the heavy atmosphere of our world and our problems.....