why

[henrys]

why do we need sleep

[dot.hawkes]

so we can rest and get up for work at 6.30 the next day and not crash our cars on the way to work cos we are overtired.

[Panic Button]

Gives me a break from 'er indoors for a while, unless she invades my dreams

[ummmm]

She will now panic.....just because you said that.....sweet dreams lol

[Panic Button]

You never arrived at the desert island

[ummmm]

You didn't give me the date silly ;-)

[Panic Button]

I was lonely at first, but then this young nubile local girl arrived and tended to my every need.

I called her Friday

[Panic Button]

She smelt like my local Fish and Chip shop

[ummmm]

Well......your a sl*t

I'm not talking to you anymore

How could you? ;-)

[Panic Button]

You sound like 'er indoors

[ummmm]

Well....What do you expect. I was going to a desert Island to re-populate it (while secretly taking the pill) and you went off on your own.....

[andy-hughes]

If you are looking for a serious answer (?)

sleep is necessary for the mind to sift through the sensory input it has received while in a conscious state, and decide how to process it. This takes time, and the mind needs to be in a fugue state to carry out this activity, with sensory input reduced to a minimum. Failure to allow the mind time to carry out this process will result in psychosis, and death.

Time to die without food and water - approx. eleven days.

Time to die without sleep - approx. five days.

Ask any parent of a new baby why sleep deprivation is such an effective torture!