Question: what is happening to our body as we sleep

Asked by cciiaarraa to Emma, Josie, Kristyn, Peter, Sarah on 2 Sep 2013. This question was also asked by itsonlyme13, cookies, howl004.

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  1. Photo: Sarah BlundenSarah Blunden
    answered on 2 Sep 2013:

    WOW this is a great question and one that could take a long time to answer. Our brain during sleep is either very calm ( when it is in deep sleep or NonREM sleep) or very active ( when it is in REM sleep or dream sleep. The brain cycles through sleep stages and the brain waves chnage at every sleep stage
    check this out and look at the sleep stages
    https://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=https://www.holistic-online.com/remedies/sleep/stages-of-sleep-eeg1.GIF&imgrefurl=https://www.holistic-online.com/remedies/sleep/sleep_stages-1-4NREM.htm&h=320&w=360&sz=14&tbnid=xO__E66zQQvVRM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=116&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddiagrams%2Bof%2Bsleep%2Bstages%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=diagrams+of+sleep+stages&usg=__m9DjSeE5ak3g0-5Nk1qm_uFGA8o=&docid=ar21pxjkZHCijM&sa=X&ei=YOMjUqjWOI2RigeP0IDoCg&ved=0CFMQ9QEwDA&dur=16

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  2. Photo: Kristyn BatesKristyn Bates
    answered on 2 Sep 2013:

    I think sleep is actually really important not only for your brain, but also allows your body time at rest and actually heal.
    There aren’t any animals that don’t spend some time sleeping, so that must mean that its really important 🙂

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  3. Photo: Josien de BieJosien de Bie
    answered on 2 Sep 2013:

    and snoring.. a lot of snoring 🙂

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