Things Your Body Does While Sleeping (5 of 5)

Goes On A Cleanse

Over the course of the day, our body builds up toxins. Those toxins release in time, but usually during our sleep. This makes sense since experts have noted that those who are sleep-deprived often go a little crazy.

Stops Breathing

Another sleeping condition several people experience is sleep apnea. The disorder is best described as the individual pausing in breathing or experiencing shallow breathing during sleep. These pauses can last between a few seconds to several minutes. Naturally, these disrupt the sleeping of that person since our brain is still active and it needs oxygen.

Wakes Up Without Realizing It

One thing we don’t realize while sleeping is that we wake up at various points during the night. The thing is these periods are so brief, we often don’t remember them. They normally occur during transition periods between the sleep stages.

Hears Explosions

A rare sleep disorder is the exploding head syndrome. No this isn’t a case where our head literally explodes, but when we sleep, it can feel like our head will explode. Going into detail, the symptom entails the person hearing a loud, but imagined noise. Recipients have described these loud sounds as bombs exploding, gunshots, or a cymbal crashing.

These sounds can be experienced when trying to fall asleep or during waking up. The syndrome is physically painless, but it doesn’t take away from the fact it’s frightening.

Pain Tolerance Increases

The last thing that our body does while we’re sleeping is raise our pain tolerance. When we’re sleeping, our body is completely relaxed. Pair that up with the paralyzed muscles, our nerves become paralyzed as a process.

Because of those things, our body can’t send the appropriate pain signals to our brain. On top of that, our other senses are turned off too. We can’t hear, smell, see or feel while sleeping.