THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE TO SCIENTISTS! – WHY WE SLEEP

I challenge scientists ultimately as follows-

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The non believing scientific world with all their modern technology should justify why humans spend almost half of their lives in sleep. Before they figure out more complex things, galaxies and the likes, they should explain this simple thing that affects all of us… a most characteristic, essential activity we are engaged in through out our lives. What is the use of this if not a divine, non physical purpose. Why do we sleep?

Science no doubt professes to have so many answers, aided with their gadgets. So they should at the very least give an evolutionary justification to what we do almost half of our lives. That is significant, very significant!

Now here is the reason for my challenge, which actually stems from the Muslim Quran. The Quran says of sleep:

Quran 78:9 and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death

Quran 39:42 It is God [alone that has this power – He] who causes all human beings to die at the time of their [bodily] death, and [causes to be as dead], during their sleep, those that have not yet died: ^[44] thus, He withholds [from life] those upon whom He has decreed death, and lets the others go free for a term set [by Him]. In [all] this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who think!

Quran 25:47 And He it is who makes the night a garment for you, and [your] sleep a rest, and causes every [new] day to be a resurrection.

Quran 30:23 And among His wonders is your sleep, at night or in daytime, as well as your [ability to go about in] quest of some of His bounties: in this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who [are willing to] listen!

Upon coming across this, I immediately knew by inspiration that science had no explanation yet for half our lives, – the very essential part spent in sleep, and that evolution does not answer this need. A quick search revealed that I was absolutely right.

NewYork Times:

But even the most gifted scientist on the planet cannot explain why people sleep.

”It may be the biggest open question in biology,” said Dr. Allan Rechtschaffen, a sleep expert and a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.

Scientists’ ignorance about one of life’s most basic activities is not for lack of trying.

Fifty years of sleep research have ruled out some possibilities and yielded a variety of intriguing leads.

One of the best guesses science has yet given, is that sleep somehow allows the brain neurons rest. But you see, the reason science and evolution can not explain sleep is the simple question- why make a machine that needs to switch off/rest?  Why not evolve in a manner, where you can work and progress in both the day and nocturnally? Why this unique activity that reduces our life time efficacy? Machines are made today that run 24hrs/day all year long. Why need rest?

This is the ultimate challenge. And I invite anyone and everyone to give a none spiritual, extra-earthly realm and dimensional answer to this essential question, or to deny the simple answer or give a reason for the denial of it as I present next.

Now let me explain the basic reality from the Religions Holy book- Quran.

In sleep, we die!

Let’s use the car example that is so often used in attempts to explain sleep. The body should be able to run as a special car driving, 24 hours a day, all several years long. Picture a car driving around. The car only rests, when the driver parks it and leaves. Once the driver is no longer in the car, the car, though capable and able is as dead. So the driver is the soul of the car, and the car, just a vessel. The car dies and is resurrected over and over. The reason it parks is not to rest, even though it cools down, etc at this time. These are not essential but just useful gains of the rest. The rest is a spiritual event, here the soul of the car exits the dimension of the car and enters another dimension. Hence it can easily be proven that sleep and death are two identical states, and there is an additional essence to man, other than the cells and networks that operate him.

If scientists re-channel their efforts on sleep to figuring out the quantitative and qualitative loss of an essence, the soul, while a person sleeps, realizing that the carcass left is just a breathing biological contraption. They will properly understand sleep, and the reality of our existence/life in the earthly realm and our attachment to our Creator/Controller.

Till then, I challenge them to provide evidence of a lack of this disconnection, to prove the functional dissimilarity between a sleeping man and a dead man, and to simply answer- why we sleep.

There is much more to be discussed on the ultimate gain of this recognition, which I shall present to all subscribers in the course of this challenge.