Great stuff, as always ... but I have to correct you on something. REM is the lightest stage of sleep, not the deepest. In the deep restorative stage, you get the twitches and spells of sleepwalking and talking, but when in REM, the body is actually paralyzed to prevent the acting out of one's dreams. But that's when someone is actually closest to being awake.
For humans, Rem sleep is the fourth and final stage of sleep, which comes in rounds. But it is in fact the deepest "stage" of sleep. Your body is at its lowest point of activity, as where your brain can fluctuate.
I thought that it's a failure in the paralysis mechanism during REM sleep that causes sleep walking and sleep talking, and similar, as the body reacts to what the brain is dreaming. As far as I was aware, in dreamless sleep, that kind of activity isn't there for the body to act on.
@@AvarenVoh Most literature considers deep sleep to be the stage with the lowest brain activity. N3 is the deepest stage of sleep, which is the third non-REM stage in the cycle.
Just want to say: little doggo at the end resting its head on its twitching sibling and the sibling quiets down deserves some recognition. Might just be reading human emotion into it but that made my day.
Fun fact: The platypus's closest relative, the echidna, has far more complex brain structures and has actually been proven capable of both REM sleep and dreaming, but only if the temperature is right. They also have the biggest frontal cortex to body mass ratio of any mammal, but nobody really knows what they actually do with all that brain power.
Since I have terrible lungs or a terrible diaphragm, I have to take a conscious breath every few minutes, sometimes every 10-15 minutes, because I feel like choking or like I’m not breathing enough air, so I have to force a big breath, in and out... and I honestly don’t know how I survive nights...
@@Kiss_My_Aspergers I’ve never been diagnosed with anything, because I’ve never bothered checking anything, but this problem stems from my birth, my lungs were filled with my own poop when I was born (I was born from an emergency cesarean), I had to get a bunch of treatments, and because of this, until like 8 or 9, every time I came in contact with a sudden temp change, my sinus would swell and fill with mucus. It sounds awful, and my wording doesn’t help, but in reality it amounts to a minor annoyance, if anything, except when wearing a face mask, it doubles the “I’m not getting enough air” sensation. Edit: Imagine it’s like OP, and getting constantly reminded to breathe manually, you get used to it.
Fun fact: Squirrels are homeotherms, which means that unlike some mammals, their body temperatures remain fairly constant throughout the year; they don't hibernate. In the winter, squirrels spend less time foraging outside their dens, and it's more common for several squirrels to share a den, which is called a drey.
You forgot to mention frogs. They also can stop their heartbeat and breathing completely until the water warms up. The actual sleep cycle of frogs in warm weather is completely unknown as they have never had brain scans done, but they do close their eyes for a while and stay still. We know so much less than what we don’t know.
Isn't there a type of frog that produces a kind of biological antifreeze and floods its body with it, going into literal cryosleep to survive through winter without tearing itself apart when its water expands while freezing?
I thought that was what he was going to mention since almost everyone on this side of TH-cam knows about tardigrades already. Frogs even have antifreeze in their blood to keep them from dying in winter.
I've always liked to think of sleep as "temporary death." But "dress rehearsal for death" is pretty good, too. Either way, I find it morbidly comforting!
I kinda like that. I mean think about if for 5-8 hours of sleep you are effectively DEAD to the world. It's a practice run. I often think that Death itself will be pretty similar to sleep. Nothingness. SOUNDS GREAT lol
My last horse was a weirdo in a lot of ways, but he would sleep lying down flat for multiple hours per day, during the day. He was a rescue with a difficult early life, so we always assumed the daylight was when he felt safest, but he definitely slept way longer than the average horse, too. The barn I kept him at would get calls from well meaning passersby at least once a week, because he looked literally dead. He was a wild little guy.
One thing that makes him stand out is not only his clever construction of words, but he's also not afraid to show nature's ugly side. In my opinion, most edutainment shows about nature say that nature is beautiful and kind. This man, however, will show you nature's many creative ways to meet your ancestors.
Exactly. And yet, he still knows that the ecosystem should be protected. He understands that just fine without having to dress up nature to pretend it’s all cartoon rainbows. Most people seem to go to either one of two extremes- lying to make animals sound like angels, or acknowledging they aren’t, but then using that as an excuse to nihilistically act like all species and the environment should be bulldozed, or even can be without serious consequences (for humans, too). This guy, at least, has common sense. Which is refreshing.
I love this channel because Mamadou stays balanced with it. He doesn't go too negative or overly positive. Maybe an individual video will lean one way or the other, but his videos as a collection give a nuanced, honest depiction of the realities of the wild.
I love that you showed how spooky Sperm Whales look when sleeping right at the beginning but they're also the mammal that arguably gets the least sleep. These spooky formations are called "logging" and only last for fifteen minutes a day!
12:05 -- The puppy going over to cuddle its sibling that seems to be having a nightmare (and the other one coming up to check on them also) is so sweet!
but no, they're not capable of complex emotions, never. Some people really just don't like the concept of other animals not named Human having proper complex memory, intelligence and emotions.
@@KCUFyoufordoxingme But of horse. I am proudly omnivorous, as our species always has been. Why? The predictable "they are also capable of complex emotions and memory so why would you eat them if you cared so much?"
You just blow me away. So much research, given in such a wonderful format of quick humor that is so on the mark. You amaze me. Hug your mamma, friend, she raised a totally awesome man.
Animals sleeping is always a discussed topic! Our crew filmed Magnificent Frigatebirds and how they sleep. They are able to stay in the air for several days and nights, and resting is not a problem; they sleep on the wing!
British naturalists refused to believe that they were real, preferring to believe that they were fake made from beavers with a water bird's feet and bill sewn on.
A point of pride for me is I’ve seen a platypus in the wild hunting in Tasmania South Hobart to be precise 4 days after my uncle died, not even the people in Australia Zoo native wildlife hospital see many of them so I have a very special place in my heart for them
I've stayed awake for nearly 80 hours before, it was weird. There was moments where if I stopped moving I'd literally start involuntarily closing my eyes and others where I was so hopped up on adrenaline I felt like I could fight god. Last thing I remember was watching my toast vibrating on the plate. I woke up with toast stuck to my face.
@@sprintershepherd4359girl that’s a little over 3 days, most people can easily achieve 36 hours. Especially night owls, 72+ hours is a lot less hard than for regular people
No lie, your videos are a part of my morning routine now before work. I get to learn something and enjoy a good laugh while seeing some worthwhile critter videos to start my day off bright and joyful. Thank you!
I'd heard about one of the sleep deprivation experiments that permanently altered the subjects personality, giving his an incredibly short temper and making him act irrational.
When you mentioned humans and sleeping, I was surprised you didn't mention Paul Kern. He was a Hungarian soldier from WWI that got shot in the head. Instead of dying, he lost the need to sleep. He spent 30 years never sleeping, just closing his eyes for a few hours at night while listening to music.
I get the feeling they're similar to pandas in the regard that their species probably would be struggling a lot more to survive without human intervention.
@@Daelyah True! I know people were also worried about the recent fires in Australia threatening and damaging animal habitats. As for pandas, that makes sense: There's even the "panda diplomacy," with China lending pandas out to other zoos- and it does seem like breeding is always the major concern. 🐨🐼
They manage to coast off of their eucalyptus diet giving them zero competition. There's plenty to go around, nothing else is ever going to touch it, and it makes their meat distasteful enough for predators to ignore them. Koalas basically exist in a smogon tier so low that nobody else showed up and they just keep winning by default.
@@nick-playercharacter8583 don’t forget, they peace out if the tree they’re eating runs out of leaves and they don’t want the one immediately around it
10:45 I hear so many people hyping this thing up, and I've always been like "yeah but they're still eaten in the droves, they're not exactly"op" When you mentioned them I rolled my eyes expecting you to be like "yeah so they can survive radiation this, supernova that" But nope, you made this point and other than tierzoo, you're the o n l y one who's made this point, you've earned a sub xD
I couldn't sleep for a month years ago working at a airport clocking in at 4 in the morning and I ended up seeing some kind of Skelton humanoid creature. I think microsleep was the only thing keeping me alive. Funny enough I can sleep though just about anything like I once slept through my dad pulling a gun on his roommate's girlfriend thinking she was someone breaking in.
@@sirembrum49thegreatmoth2 Thanks I ended up quiting. Now I just mow lawns and take dogs on walks. At my old job I was working 50+ hours a week and was making 12$ an hour. It wasn't worth the pay especially with all of my family I lived with keeping me up and my girlfriend too who at the time lived in a different time zone.
@@southernfriedwestcoaster I'm happy to hear you found a much more relaxing and more worth it job. That's a job I would love to have too and I hope your family and lover are doing good and most important I hope you are getting good sleep because after all that crap you had to go through, you deserve it 1000% I couldn't go through that hell unless I wanted to say screw it and die and I'm not in the best of health
No job is worth such severe sleep deprivation. I've had sleep deprivation hallucinations too, usually I notice little rivers on the roof or see patterns on objects start to move around. But I've had scary ones too, like human shaped shadows that stand next to my bed in the dark. Sleep is so precious, I also don't deal with it much anymore since I'm on sleeping pills.
That ending is so damn wholesome 🥰. My family fostered 8 puppies once and if one of them began to cry, all of them would cry, but then they would shift their pyramid to get closer to each other before settling down again 😂. Though I had school at daybreak, I'd sometimes sit on the couch and just watch them at night, sleeping in their playpen.
Bro I just stumbled on to your channel, such a great find. You made animal videos so much more fun to watch then they normally are, but so much more entertaining and fact filled. I love it
@@dragoncubes1074 ok 1. I didn't say it was definitively a runt I was just making a guess because it was literally the only one "crying". 2. It's not anthropomorphizing because it's just an objective fact that Dogs have enough cognitive awareness to be able to dream, probably not in the same way that *we* do but it's very obvious they can. And 3. Dogs are known commonly to be used for emotional support for ourselves as well as other animals. So the idea of a dog having a nightmare and audibly "whining" as it's lying there asleep, and the others come in to comfort it is not only something that we can commonly observe dogs specifically doing for many different creatures. But even in the footage we see here, it is very blatantly what's happening. Also side note: Next Time make sure you actually know what your talking about before you accuse *me* of doing something.
I’ve experienced that “forced micro sleep” before. I’ve actually fallen asleep when I was WALKING. So did a lot of other people. This was in bootcamp tho, they didn’t let us sleep very much. I had to constantly wake up while others were getting their 3-4 hours of sleep to stand “watch” too. During dress rehearsal and graduation, they had to have a couple of guys walking up and our ranks to wake people up while they stood there bc when one person would pass out, it could end up knocking a bunch of us over 💀 I actually passed out during dress rehearsal but not the actual graduation. My mom picked me up for liberty weekend and I spent it sleeping in her hotel room, 😅
Same. Fell asleep standing up. We were lined up waiting to board a bus, with rucks on our bellies. I fell asleep and the pressure of my ruck against the guy in front of me combined with the ruck pressed against my back kept me standing while full-on dreaming.
Hi . My daughter stopped breathing 11 times right after birth. I sleep with one eye opened for over 2 years. And would get up any time I saw anything disturbing her. She is a adult now and is amazing wonderful . But the human brain is amazing. Post Script: it took tapping my eye closed for months to get it to close at night again. Take care of you and yours.
4:48 the image of a newborn sloth bungee jumping from its mother’s uterus will certainly haunt my dreams and be great fuel for my sleep paralysis demon, thanks
You’re right, turns out it’s the other way around and REM is the closest you are to being awake without actually being conscious. Crazy cause for the longest, I was sure REM was the deepest
@@mndiaye_97 in all fairness, when I searched for “deepest sleep phase”, I found conflicting answers. The NIH says REM (IV) and the Sleep Foundation says NREM (III). So I guess you’re both right 🤷🏻♀️. Either way, thanks for the awesome and informative videos!!!
@@mndiaye_97this is actually quite logical, because always when you decided to fall asleep again after waking up and then wake up like am hour or less after, you can way more likely remember what you dreamed of.
Special mention goes to the hummingbird, an animal with the highest metabolism out of any vertebrate, that spends most of the day on a constant sugar rush and the rest of it in a sugar crash, lowering their body temperature by over 50% and their heart rate going from 1000 bpm while awake to anywhere between 180 and 50 while in torpor.
I love these videos. The smoothness of the metaphors and the amount of information that is presented in a way that is not only entertaining, but also memorable makes this the best channel I’ve watched that does animal related content. I’mma go take a nap. Who knew seeing animals sleep is contagious?
Correction: REM sleep is the lightest stage of sleep, followed by N1, N2 and then N3 as the deepest. The EEG pattern of REM closely resembles that of wakefullness and is the phase where vivid dreams are had.
Alright, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thought that was an error. IIRC, a typical night's sleep pattern goes something like: Awake -> N1 -> N2 -> N3/N4 -> N2 -> N1 (-> REM -> N1 -> N2 -> N3/N4 -> N2 -> N1) x4 -> Awake
For as long as I’ve known, my sleep is extremely abnormal. As in a sleep study showed it takes me about ten minutes to fall asleep, 10 more and I’m already in REM and stay there for the entire 8 hours, no rising and falling through the other stages once I reach it. I wake up to turn over or use the bathroom and in 10 minutes I’ve fallen back asleep and straight into REM, bypassing the other stages.
@@scottroot3167 It's not exactly restful sleep. Apparently the brain activity in REM sleep is almost the same as the brain activity when awake. It's the other stages of sleep that you get the most rest in. XD All the sleep with almost none of the benefits.
Makes me wonder if prehistoric marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, and plesiosaurs slept in a similar fashion to cetaceans. For that matter, I imagine a lot of herbivorous dinosaurs could sleep standing up for the same reasons prey animals today do.
Probably. A good general rule of thumb is that extinct animals in similar niches to modern animals probably behaved very similarly. Yes, that means a Tyrannosaurus probably slept most of the day like a Lion.
That Squirrel at 10:10 was going HAM on that nut scratch holy sh!t lol. That itch must have been bothering him through his whole hibernation and as soon as he woke up he had one thing on his mind. Scratching that itchy nut sack lol.
If you like this guy's content, I definitely suggest buying his book. Very educational yet funny in a way your teachers only wished they could have been. I hope he carries on creating great content, either more books or more videos. Keep up the good work
Personal Experience: stayed awake for 5 days and some hours due to exteme insomnia ( this was a decade ago and the worst it ever got, I sleep pretty regular now ) Day 2 is when I started hearing things in my apartment. Day 3 I hallucinated a giant centipede with scorpion claws coming out from behind my computer Day 4 all sense of time expired, I'm actively talking to myself because in silence I think something is right behind me and I can feel it breathing Day 5 I Suddenly Feel Wide Awake But I'm Actually A Clumsy Hangry Baby AND LET'S MAKE DOUGHNUTS I set the kitchen on fire, managed to put it out before it got beyond the Stovetop but for a sec shit was NEARLY EXTEMELY BAD FOR EVERYONE IN MY BUILDING Around noon on day five my hubby came home from deployment, and I fell asleep on his chest after he ordered us some Chinese. I was so goddamn anxious about him coming home I Just Couldn't Sleep and when he finally did I passed the fuck out XDDDDDDDD
Respect. The most I've ever made it was three days. On the third day, I hallucinated that the hinges on the bathroom stall door were moving up and down, and that a small piece of fluff on the floor was moving towards me whenever I looked away, and that's when I finally went to bed.
You missed the African lungfish, people have accidently made mudbricks containing them, then when there is a particularly heavy rain a few years later, suddenly the wall breaks open and the fish starts crawling towards the nearest pond.
“Fun” animal fact: Shrike’s impale their prey on sticks to save them for later, also known as “butcherbirds” they are famous for being fairly brutal songbirds. They catch all kinds of animals, including crickets, lizards, and small birds, and impale them on sticks to save them for later.
@@strombreakr I’m not sure? He does a shite ton of these videos, and each 1 has, now I’m guessing here but, I’d say roughly 10-20 facts about animals… so it very well could’ve been an animal he talked about, but I don’t think so…?
@@pikachusucks5151 Absolutely, why wouldn't I be? These birds are an important part of the natural ecology. Seeing it means my backyard is healthy for wildlife.
I think the sloth enclosure with the painted leaves was from my local zoo when they were severely underfunded. the poor dudes were asleep every time I saw them back then. you'll be pleased to hear we voted to increase their funding several years ago and they made swift and effective use of it to replace every bare concrete enclosure and provide the animals with better stimulation! I still remember the first time I saw that sloth awake
Always get excited to see a new video go up from you. Always informative, and yet entertaining. Have always had a fondness and enjoyed learning more about animals, Thank you for all you do and have taught me through the channel. Cheers man.
Had it once standing at the checkstand in supermarket. Next thing I knew I was lying on the floor with a scratch on my nose, been away for probably 30 seconds. Was pretty ok after that powernap.
The worst part is you don't even realize you fell asleep. Like I'll be watching a video late at night and then I blink and the video's over. Straight up feels like I time travelled
I've had it where when sleep deprived long enough, what starts to happen is you have uncontrollable day dreams that start to blind into your "reality" so comes a point of you don't know what's real or not, but while in that state the day dreams are real and its not until you snap out of it fully that you realize it's not.
00:52 it's little known fact that not only is every breath they take a choice but also. every move they make Every bond they break Every step you take Theyll be watching you
I love how you moved to making higher production value videos that fit the youtube format. Of course one can't forget what got them fame and I'm not dunkng on Tiktok but it's really nice to see how good this channel looks after 2 years of being subscribed to it.
I’ve noticed a lot of TikTok creators are moving over to TH-cam and making more long-form content lately. I wonder if it’s because this platform is better for longer and more nuanced videos and discussions as opposed to TikTok which has a time limit of 1-3 min max and has a character limit for comments.
I’ve always had terrible insomnia, I regularly stay awake for 2 or 3 days at a time. He’s right, stuff gets weird around day 3. Visual hallucinations of shadow people or seeing vaguely human shaped things moving around in your peripheral vision. Auditory hallucinations such as hearing whispering or singing when there’s no one around. Even when you know it’s not real, it’s pretty freaky.
It's a good thing i don't have nightmares often, because of i did i think that comment would cause them. I'm so sorry you have to go through that. Missing 2-4 hours of sleep on a semi regular basis is bad enough. (I know that much from experience)
As a child I once managed to fall asleep for about almost 18 hours without waking up. Went to sleep at around 9pm, next time I woke up was 3pm the next day. Idk why or how this happened though. It was at my grandmas place and when I woke up she was out for a walk. After she came back even she said she was glad I was awake cause she was starting to worry. To this day I just guess my body somehow needed that much rest during that time. Just wanted to share this funny little story about sleeping for so long since this video is about sleep as well Also i apologize if there are any grammar or spelling mistakes cause english isn’t my first language. Have a wonderful day/night everyone^^
@@dogidogediggidydogedd957 I don't remember much anymore but if my memory is correct, I could sleep normally the next night as well and I would say I felt good or at least pretty normal after that long sleep. Not tired and sleepy after waking up but also not like I had too much energy. Sometimes today I wish I could once again sleep that long, maybe it would help against that almost constant feeling of being tired...
Was this maybe followed by a growth spurt? My son and my nephew both had times where they’d eat more than usual before growth spurts; it would make sense if extra rest was what your body needed in order to do what’s necessary
As someone with both chronic intermittent insomnia, and delayed sleep phase disorder (first melatonin release is hours later at night than normal for an adult), microsleeps are annoying when at home, and terrifying in public. I've had my brain trigger them while standing, while holding conversation, while eating... and the more stressed it makes you the worse they get.
I have Chronic Fatigue and use to have micro-sleeps a lot, it was terrifying getting micro sleep in school because I was always a good student before and had never fallen asleep, trying to fight it and not being able to still haunts me. What was confusing was that I use to get it even after 9 hours of sleep so I didn’t understand what it was, but now I’m aware that I need closer to 13-16 hours of sleep to feel awake.
Go tell your momma a lady from Alaska says, "Thank you for raising your boy to see and share his humor in a sometimes scary world. You did a great job." Then give her a hug and squeeze till she toots. Lol don't ever loose the ability to see humor the way you do. It keeps us sane.
I love this channel. You're the main source of all the animal facts I share with my family every day. In fact, I think I could stay up ALL NIGHT watching your content!
I think its more wild that the Tardigrades lifespan is between 2 months and 2 years depending on the particular species but that it can literally just kinda go basically irls version of afk for like literally longer than any other species on earth and then just come back whenever they feel like it even if that time spent afk is longer than its actual lifespan.
More proof that tardigrades are very broken. Good point though, most microbes have very short lifespans so one that's gone into suspended animation could skip over a thousand generations of its own kind potentially, wonder how that works for species compatibility since they can essentially timeskip forward, or maybe they're already not genetically complex enough for mutations to have that big of an impact between multiple generations? Idk but now I'm kinda curious about how that works, like has anyone tried letting a sample population continue on as normal but put a portion of them into that state for a few years then reintroduced the ones that had gone into suspended animation into the original population to see if any changes occured, or am I the only one that's thought about it? Wondering because shorter lived creatures can see variation occure over a few generations but idk about super small creatures, how stable their genetics actually are compared to more complex species
@@discordiacreates6669 thats a pretty good point. Ive never really thought about it like that. Looks like you’ve come up with a great idea if a scientist hasnt already tested it yet they should.
Sleep is fascinating. It's such an essential part of so many animals' life, yet it's so different. One wonders what determines a given lifeforms sleep requirements.
Man I love this channel. Your content is always consistent and awesome. One of the best commentary youtubers around. Keep it up man I'll always be watching!
I am sure that if we would spend more time awake, we would be forced to work more hours as well. So I am fine with my 8h of sleep,... because escapism. Edit, 02:11: As a test, just to see how long I could do it, I decided to stay awake when I had 2 weeks vacation, was alone at my family home and didn't have to take care of any animals. I was 16 and I managed to stay awake for 6 days. Of what I remember, pushing past the second day was the hardest, then the third one was no problem again, but shadows started to move, just out of the corner of the eye. The fourth one was when the shadows moved even when you had your eyes on them for more than a few seconds. Near the end of the fourth day, starting the fifth, was when the full on hallucinations came. I don't remember much about the fifth day, only that I was still clear enough in my head to *know* that all the weird things I saw were nothing but hallucinations caused by sleep deprivation,... which made me laugh (I remember laughing at some point). And not much is left in my memory about the sixth day, except that my family came back, I went to bed, seeing that I couldn't continue with the experiment when my family was at home, and slept for about 14h. Even if my family would have stayed away for longer, I probably would have only managed to stay awake for another day tops, more likely just a couple of hours longer. If I was about to try this again, with 31, I'd most likely quit the second day in, because fuck it, I love my bed way too much. lol
Microsleeps are amazing you are completely aware of your surroındings and have dreams in those a few secs or mins. And just 2 hours of microsleep is enough for the whole day. When I was in uni I had cripling depression that cause severe sleep issues sometimes I would go 8 hours a week sleep. I would sit in front of the class and microsleep for 2 classes . And it was hillarious because everytime teacher said somewhere is important I would wake up write it down then go back to sleep a few secs after.
If I remember right, there’s also a kind of moth who’s caterpillar that lives on (or at least close to) one of the poles. It spends very short springs and summers eating as much food as it can find, and if it doesn’t get enough food to pupate, it simply lets itself freeze. Then, when it thaws out again, it just repeats the process till it can turn into a moth.
Thank you for the work you do in researching animals other than ourselves, and helping people to understand their sentience is often close to ours but also very often different. That they are worthy and have as much right as us to live in their natural environments without us deliberately harming them for no Good reason whatsoever, and they have the right to protect themselves.
Fun(ish) fact: People who are suffering from depression and anxiety spend more time in REM sleep than average, which is probably why they often report having very weird vivid dreams. On that note, I should probably tell my psychologist that I'm still having weird vivid dreams again...
The absolute mood of these posts is amazing. His voice is easily in my top 10 of 'things to listen to while doing chores'. So informative, and so get-up-and-do-something-useful.
@@dragoncubes1074 As long as noone can prove why we dream or even how i dont mind endulging in the fantasy that animals comfort each other just like humans do. Notice i used the word fantasy.
@@chadfalardeau5396 Adding on the fact that dogs on average have around the same level of intelligence and emotional capacity as a 2-year-old human child.
Great stuff, as always ... but I have to correct you on something. REM is the lightest stage of sleep, not the deepest. In the deep restorative stage, you get the twitches and spells of sleepwalking and talking, but when in REM, the body is actually paralyzed to prevent the acting out of one's dreams. But that's when someone is actually closest to being awake.
Was going to make this point as well, but you did a great job in elaborating why. Thank you!
That’s interesting, I always figured it was the other way around. The more you know lol thanks for the explanation, gonna pin this
For humans, Rem sleep is the fourth and final stage of sleep, which comes in rounds. But it is in fact the deepest "stage" of sleep. Your body is at its lowest point of activity, as where your brain can fluctuate.
I thought that it's a failure in the paralysis mechanism during REM sleep that causes sleep walking and sleep talking, and similar, as the body reacts to what the brain is dreaming. As far as I was aware, in dreamless sleep, that kind of activity isn't there for the body to act on.
@@AvarenVoh Most literature considers deep sleep to be the stage with the lowest brain activity. N3 is the deepest stage of sleep, which is the third non-REM stage in the cycle.
The fact that sleep can be 80% of an animal's life and only like 10% another animal's life is just fascinating.
I also think it's fascinating that 10% of one species' lifespan is 80% of another's.
Yeah some of us need less time to charge than others
Trunks😎
@@keenanlarsen1639 true
ikrrr and imagine if like people slept that much.. it would be amazing
The whales look so creepy sleeping like that, though being underwater it's understandable. Almost looks like a view you'd get in Subnautica.
It always reminded me of a living, breathing Stonehenge.
They look like they’d died
I'll never scuba dive in my life if seeing that nightmare is a possibility. I'd scream and faint at their size.
T-posing when you don't have arms
Pickles 😁
Just want to say: little doggo at the end resting its head on its twitching sibling and the sibling quiets down deserves some recognition. Might just be reading human emotion into it but that made my day.
Fun fact: The platypus's closest relative, the echidna, has far more complex brain structures and has actually been proven capable of both REM sleep and dreaming, but only if the temperature is right. They also have the biggest frontal cortex to body mass ratio of any mammal, but nobody really knows what they actually do with all that brain power.
So Knuckles do have a big brain.
huh... neat
Obviously they use that brain power to guard the Master Emerald.
Sounds like another topic for this channel!
This is why knuckles the goat
their brain is so big because that's where they store all their dreams and love.
"Every breath a dolphin takes is a conscious choice, unlike ours"
Very much like mine, at least for the next minute or so after hearing that.
Like mine after reading this
Since I have terrible lungs or a terrible diaphragm, I have to take a conscious breath every few minutes, sometimes every 10-15 minutes, because I feel like choking or like I’m not breathing enough air, so I have to force a big breath, in and out... and I honestly don’t know how I survive nights...
@@XochiCh huh, neat new fact
@@XochiCh Jesus, that's horrifying. What all have you been diagnosed with, if you don't mind me asking?
@@Kiss_My_Aspergers
I’ve never been diagnosed with anything, because I’ve never bothered checking anything, but this problem stems from my birth, my lungs were filled with my own poop when I was born (I was born from an emergency cesarean), I had to get a bunch of treatments, and because of this, until like 8 or 9, every time I came in contact with a sudden temp change, my sinus would swell and fill with mucus. It sounds awful, and my wording doesn’t help, but in reality it amounts to a minor annoyance, if anything, except when wearing a face mask, it doubles the “I’m not getting enough air” sensation.
Edit: Imagine it’s like OP, and getting constantly reminded to breathe manually, you get used to it.
Fun fact: Squirrels are homeotherms, which means that unlike some mammals, their body temperatures remain fairly constant throughout the year; they don't hibernate. In the winter, squirrels spend less time foraging outside their dens, and it's more common for several squirrels to share a den, which is called a drey.
I guess there are Squirrel Roommates in the trees!
I admit that I forgot about Drey
@@Slateboard 🤣🤣
You forgot to mention frogs. They also can stop their heartbeat and breathing completely until the water warms up. The actual sleep cycle of frogs in warm weather is completely unknown as they have never had brain scans done, but they do close their eyes for a while and stay still. We know so much less than what we don’t know.
Isn't there a type of frog that produces a kind of biological antifreeze and floods its body with it, going into literal cryosleep to survive through winter without tearing itself apart when its water expands while freezing?
Damn I came here to say this.
Well can one not do a brain scan on a frog?
I thought that was what he was going to mention since almost everyone on this side of TH-cam knows about tardigrades already. Frogs even have antifreeze in their blood to keep them from dying in winter.
So can alligators.
I've always liked to think of sleep as "temporary death." But "dress rehearsal for death" is pretty good, too.
Either way, I find it morbidly comforting!
I kinda like that. I mean think about if for 5-8 hours of sleep you are effectively DEAD to the world. It's a practice run. I often think that Death itself will be pretty similar to sleep. Nothingness. SOUNDS GREAT lol
It is the "Free trial" of death. You even get ads!
Um wtf?
LOL. That’s because you’ve probably not tried Ayahuasca.
Your brain is extremely active during sleep, so not really death-like at all. If you’ve ever been under anesthesia, that’s closer to the reality.
My last horse was a weirdo in a lot of ways, but he would sleep lying down flat for multiple hours per day, during the day. He was a rescue with a difficult early life, so we always assumed the daylight was when he felt safest, but he definitely slept way longer than the average horse, too. The barn I kept him at would get calls from well meaning passersby at least once a week, because he looked literally dead. He was a wild little guy.
One thing that makes him stand out is not only his clever construction of words, but he's also not afraid to show nature's ugly side. In my opinion, most edutainment shows about nature say that nature is beautiful and kind. This man, however, will show you nature's many creative ways to meet your ancestors.
Exactly. And yet, he still knows that the ecosystem should be protected. He understands that just fine without having to dress up nature to pretend it’s all cartoon rainbows. Most people seem to go to either one of two extremes- lying to make animals sound like angels, or acknowledging they aren’t, but then using that as an excuse to nihilistically act like all species and the environment should be bulldozed, or even can be without serious consequences (for humans, too). This guy, at least, has common sense. Which is refreshing.
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I love this channel because Mamadou stays balanced with it. He doesn't go too negative or overly positive.
Maybe an individual video will lean one way or the other, but his videos as a collection give a nuanced, honest depiction of the realities of the wild.
It’s not beautiful or ugly per say it just is what it is
@@nkbujvytcygvujno6006 I’ve seen the former extreme but I’ve never once seen the latter you described
I love that you showed how spooky Sperm Whales look when sleeping right at the beginning but they're also the mammal that arguably gets the least sleep. These spooky formations are called "logging" and only last for fifteen minutes a day!
Imagine diving and seeing this without knowing the actual context of this behavior.
I think he had mentioned that in one of his previous video, If I'm not wrong
I love that the horizontal creature lies down by going vertical 😂
@@TheHillsHaveDragons lmfao i didnt realize it until I read that xd
See I loved the music cuz they do look like a bunch of druid towers or like monoliths some person would be canting a spell at.
Much respect. The sheer amount of knowledge you have about so many species of animals shows a real dedication to the field.
12:05 -- The puppy going over to cuddle its sibling that seems to be having a nightmare (and the other one coming up to check on them also) is so sweet!
but no, they're not capable of complex emotions, never. Some people really just don't like the concept of other animals not named Human having proper complex memory, intelligence and emotions.
@@TheCriminalViolin You eat cow?
@@KCUFyoufordoxingme But of horse. I am proudly omnivorous, as our species always has been. Why? The predictable "they are also capable of complex emotions and memory so why would you eat them if you cared so much?"
@@TheCriminalViolin I hope you don’t mind me asking but what do you mean by “but of horse”?
@@rabbitmilkshake "but of course", probably
I love this man. Unproblematic. Private. Just posts his animals facts and go. Legend.
ikr bros based
You're problematic
Ikr
Gives me some hope that his generation is doing more than just filming themselves committing crimes for clout
@@thehoodedteddy1335 every single newer generation is subject of scrutiny of older generations.
This no different here.
You just blow me away. So much research, given in such a wonderful format of quick humor that is so on the mark. You amaze me. Hug your mamma, friend, she raised a totally awesome man.
Animals sleeping is always a discussed topic! Our crew filmed Magnificent Frigatebirds and how they sleep. They are able to stay in the air for several days and nights, and resting is not a problem; they sleep on the wing!
That’s amazing, love your content by the way!
The platypus is just God's spare parts
British naturalists refused to believe that they were real, preferring to believe that they were fake made from beavers with a water bird's feet and bill sewn on.
Half duck half beaver
They are not real just like pengiuns. Most of the ones you see are animatronics but some higher budget institutions like the BBC also use CGI.
In the Netherlands 🇳🇱... platypus is a vogelbekdier..
Vogel-bek-dier
Bird-beke-animal .... 🤣😂
@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok I won’t
A point of pride for me is I’ve seen a platypus in the wild hunting in Tasmania South Hobart to be precise 4 days after my uncle died, not even the people in Australia Zoo native wildlife hospital see many of them so I have a very special place in my heart for them
It’s like a gift everytime casual uploads, especially that it’s usually on Friday
Fax
I have been waiting so long for this:
th-cam.com/video/vC0roEkkKkQ/w-d-xo.html
Im not a bot btw
It’s a Saturday when he uploaded
@@Temerityofficial21201 friday in my timezone
Today's a Saturday
I've stayed awake for nearly 80 hours before, it was weird. There was moments where if I stopped moving I'd literally start involuntarily closing my eyes and others where I was so hopped up on adrenaline I felt like I could fight god.
Last thing I remember was watching my toast vibrating on the plate. I woke up with toast stuck to my face.
Your toast was vibrating?? did you get telekinetic powers from all that time awake 😟
@@cleosvoyage
You don't?
The body goes into on and off mode. Bouts of energy then no energy
BS . 80 minutes more like it
@@sprintershepherd4359girl that’s a little over 3 days, most people can easily achieve 36 hours. Especially night owls, 72+ hours is a lot less hard than for regular people
No lie, your videos are a part of my morning routine now before work. I get to learn something and enjoy a good laugh while seeing some worthwhile critter videos to start my day off bright and joyful. Thank you!
I'd heard about one of the sleep deprivation experiments that permanently altered the subjects personality, giving his an incredibly short temper and making him act irrational.
Sounds like me in the morning.
Thats just called monday for insomniacs, wouldn't recommend it
I've heard of the Russian Sleep Experiment. Creepy as hell.
@@sonicstar917 That is just a creepypasta.
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder So, it's not real?
When you mentioned humans and sleeping, I was surprised you didn't mention Paul Kern. He was a Hungarian soldier from WWI that got shot in the head. Instead of dying, he lost the need to sleep. He spent 30 years never sleeping, just closing his eyes for a few hours at night while listening to music.
Oh my god- I don't know if it's true but if it is that's so impressive!
Fascinating!
Wow
@@ash_the_guy2007 I know, normally people who get shot in the head sleep the longest
@@chaosandbunnies8291 I see what you did there 😂
The music you use in your videos is top tier. Always unlocks some nostalgia while I learn about cool animals.
And hollow knight
It's kind of amazing that an animal as seemingly inefficient as the koala still exists! 🐨
I get the feeling they're similar to pandas in the regard that their species probably would be struggling a lot more to survive without human intervention.
@@Daelyah True! I know people were also worried about the recent fires in Australia threatening and damaging animal habitats.
As for pandas, that makes sense: There's even the "panda diplomacy," with China lending pandas out to other zoos- and it does seem like breeding is always the major concern. 🐨🐼
They manage to coast off of their eucalyptus diet giving them zero competition. There's plenty to go around, nothing else is ever going to touch it, and it makes their meat distasteful enough for predators to ignore them. Koalas basically exist in a smogon tier so low that nobody else showed up and they just keep winning by default.
Then you think of the Sloth....🤯
@@nick-playercharacter8583 don’t forget, they peace out if the tree they’re eating runs out of leaves and they don’t want the one immediately around it
9:30 you know, I already respect you for the Hollow Knight Music. The OS Runescape Music though makes you a staple in my houshold.
I've always called sleep the "voluntary temporary coma".
It's amazing how our brains make us wake up and not flatline us instead.
5:00 ngl I thought that armadillos tail was something else for a sec and was VERY surprised
What is it? 😶
I mean...
There is _still_ a "something else" there...
Idk but I don’t think they have two tails
Same bro
10:45
I hear so many people hyping this thing up, and I've always been like "yeah but they're still eaten in the droves, they're not exactly"op"
When you mentioned them I rolled my eyes expecting you to be like "yeah so they can survive radiation this, supernova that"
But nope, you made this point and other than tierzoo, you're the o n l y one who's made this point, you've earned a sub xD
I couldn't sleep for a month years ago working at a airport clocking in at 4 in the morning and I ended up seeing some kind of Skelton humanoid creature. I think microsleep was the only thing keeping me alive. Funny enough I can sleep though just about anything like I once slept through my dad pulling a gun on his roommate's girlfriend thinking she was someone breaking in.
Wow, I'm glad your alive. How did you survive after all that with the micro sleep. Did you get a different job that hopefully allowed more sleep?
why wont these bots shut the frick up
@@sirembrum49thegreatmoth2 Thanks I ended up quiting. Now I just mow lawns and take dogs on walks. At my old job I was working 50+ hours a week and was making 12$ an hour. It wasn't worth the pay especially with all of my family I lived with keeping me up and my girlfriend too who at the time lived in a different time zone.
@@southernfriedwestcoaster I'm happy to hear you found a much more relaxing and more worth it job. That's a job I would love to have too and I hope your family and lover are doing good and most important I hope you are getting good sleep because after all that crap you had to go through, you deserve it 1000% I couldn't go through that hell unless I wanted to say screw it and die and I'm not in the best of health
No job is worth such severe sleep deprivation. I've had sleep deprivation hallucinations too, usually I notice little rivers on the roof or see patterns on objects start to move around. But I've had scary ones too, like human shaped shadows that stand next to my bed in the dark. Sleep is so precious, I also don't deal with it much anymore since I'm on sleeping pills.
That ending is so damn wholesome 🥰. My family fostered 8 puppies once and if one of them began to cry, all of them would cry, but then they would shift their pyramid to get closer to each other before settling down again 😂. Though I had school at daybreak, I'd sometimes sit on the couch and just watch them at night, sleeping in their playpen.
Awwwww puppy pile. Our dogs are 5 now and we only adopted 2 from the litter they came from, but on rare occasions they'll use each other as bedding.
Cuddles puddle
Bro I just stumbled on to your channel, such a great find. You made animal videos so much more fun to watch then they normally are, but so much more entertaining and fact filled. I love it
The bit with the puppies comforting the runt in it's sleep cause of his nightmare is really something else.
I wasn't ready. More cute in one space than is really acceptable
You're anthropomorphizing. And it didn't look like a runt. Do you really think they'd comfort each other because of a nightmare?
@@dragoncubes1074 ok 1. I didn't say it was definitively a runt I was just making a guess because it was literally the only one "crying".
2. It's not anthropomorphizing because it's just an objective fact that Dogs have enough cognitive awareness to be able to dream, probably not in the same way that *we* do but it's very obvious they can.
And 3. Dogs are known commonly to be used for emotional support for ourselves as well as other animals. So the idea of a dog having a nightmare and audibly "whining" as it's lying there asleep, and the others come in to comfort it is not only something that we can commonly observe dogs specifically doing for many different creatures. But even in the footage we see here, it is very blatantly what's happening.
Also side note: Next Time make sure you actually know what your talking about before you accuse *me* of doing something.
I’ve experienced that “forced micro sleep” before. I’ve actually fallen asleep when I was WALKING. So did a lot of other people. This was in bootcamp tho, they didn’t let us sleep very much. I had to constantly wake up while others were getting their 3-4 hours of sleep to stand “watch” too.
During dress rehearsal and graduation, they had to have a couple of guys walking up and our ranks to wake people up while they stood there bc when one person would pass out, it could end up knocking a bunch of us over 💀 I actually passed out during dress rehearsal but not the actual graduation. My mom picked me up for liberty weekend and I spent it sleeping in her hotel room, 😅
Same. Fell asleep standing up. We were lined up waiting to board a bus, with rucks on our bellies. I fell asleep and the pressure of my ruck against the guy in front of me combined with the ruck pressed against my back kept me standing while full-on dreaming.
I've also done the boot camp nod off!fell asleep standing up with a mop during kp duty.😂😂😂
Stg going to sleep in formation or while during a ruck march.
Same lol,it happen too many times during class.I fr sitting up straight and sleeping for at least an hour.I thought I blacked out.
This is everyone in boot camp. Lol. You learn real quick how to fall asleep while standing up.
Hi .
My daughter stopped breathing 11 times right after birth.
I sleep with one eye opened for over 2 years. And would get up any time I saw anything disturbing her. She is a adult now and is amazing wonderful .
But the human brain is amazing.
Post Script: it took tapping my eye closed for months to get it to close at night again. Take care of you and yours.
you're a superhuman, respect
That’s true devotion, your daughter is luck to have you c:
4:48 the image of a newborn sloth bungee jumping from its mother’s uterus will certainly haunt my dreams and be great fuel for my sleep paralysis demon, thanks
Pretty sure REM sleep isn't actually the deep sleep phase but a more shallow one, where your consciousness is more active, hence the dreaming :)
You’re right, turns out it’s the other way around and REM is the closest you are to being awake without actually being conscious. Crazy cause for the longest, I was sure REM was the deepest
@@mndiaye_97 in all fairness, when I searched for “deepest sleep phase”, I found conflicting answers. The NIH says REM (IV) and the Sleep Foundation says NREM (III). So I guess you’re both right 🤷🏻♀️. Either way, thanks for the awesome and informative videos!!!
@@mndiaye_97this is actually quite logical, because always when you decided to fall asleep again after waking up and then wake up like am hour or less after, you can way more likely remember what you dreamed of.
Fantastic, I enjoy how engaging this guy is, his enthusiasm for his subjects is contagious! Thank you!
Special mention goes to the hummingbird, an animal with the highest metabolism out of any vertebrate, that spends most of the day on a constant sugar rush and the rest of it in a sugar crash, lowering their body temperature by over 50% and their heart rate going from 1000 bpm while awake to anywhere between 180 and 50 while in torpor.
I love these videos. The smoothness of the metaphors and the amount of information that is presented in a way that is not only entertaining, but also memorable makes this the best channel I’ve watched that does animal related content. I’mma go take a nap. Who knew seeing animals sleep is contagious?
Your videos are getting even better and you kept your original funny/realistic approach. I'm proud of you! ✌️✌️👍👍
Correction: REM sleep is the lightest stage of sleep, followed by N1, N2 and then N3 as the deepest. The EEG pattern of REM closely resembles that of wakefullness and is the phase where vivid dreams are had.
Alright, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thought that was an error. IIRC, a typical night's sleep pattern goes something like:
Awake -> N1 -> N2 -> N3/N4 -> N2 -> N1 (-> REM -> N1 -> N2 -> N3/N4 -> N2 -> N1) x4 -> Awake
For as long as I’ve known, my sleep is extremely abnormal. As in a sleep study showed it takes me about ten minutes to fall asleep, 10 more and I’m already in REM and stay there for the entire 8 hours, no rising and falling through the other stages once I reach it. I wake up to turn over or use the bathroom and in 10 minutes I’ve fallen back asleep and straight into REM, bypassing the other stages.
Yours is a superpower seriously.
@@veryhealthy9962 lol Not when it negatively affects my health. Though at times the dreams can be pretty wild and fun.
I'm jelly, it can take me hours or days to finally sleep, even w meds.
@@scottroot3167 It's not exactly restful sleep. Apparently the brain activity in REM sleep is almost the same as the brain activity when awake. It's the other stages of sleep that you get the most rest in. XD All the sleep with almost none of the benefits.
@Duc Thann What?
“Dress Rehearsal for Death” - Gotta be one of the most unique ways I’ve heard Sleep be described. 😂
10:17 me waking up after an 8 hour “nap” and having no idea where I am
Makes me wonder if prehistoric marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, and plesiosaurs slept in a similar fashion to cetaceans. For that matter, I imagine a lot of herbivorous dinosaurs could sleep standing up for the same reasons prey animals today do.
Probably. A good general rule of thumb is that extinct animals in similar niches to modern animals probably behaved very similarly.
Yes, that means a Tyrannosaurus probably slept most of the day like a Lion.
That Squirrel at 10:10 was going HAM on that nut scratch holy sh!t lol. That itch must have been bothering him through his whole hibernation and as soon as he woke up he had one thing on his mind. Scratching that itchy nut sack lol.
If you like this guy's content, I definitely suggest buying his book. Very educational yet funny in a way your teachers only wished they could have been. I hope he carries on creating great content, either more books or more videos. Keep up the good work
Personal Experience: stayed awake for 5 days and some hours due to exteme insomnia ( this was a decade ago and the worst it ever got, I sleep pretty regular now )
Day 2 is when I started hearing things in my apartment.
Day 3 I hallucinated a giant centipede with scorpion claws coming out from behind my computer
Day 4 all sense of time expired, I'm actively talking to myself because in silence I think something is right behind me and I can feel it breathing
Day 5 I Suddenly Feel Wide Awake But I'm Actually A Clumsy Hangry Baby AND LET'S MAKE DOUGHNUTS
I set the kitchen on fire, managed to put it out before it got beyond the Stovetop but for a sec shit was NEARLY EXTEMELY BAD FOR EVERYONE IN MY BUILDING
Around noon on day five my hubby came home from deployment, and I fell asleep on his chest after he ordered us some Chinese. I was so goddamn anxious about him coming home I Just Couldn't Sleep and when he finally did I passed the fuck out XDDDDDDDD
He were safe. You were safe. Brain clocked out...
great creative writing there
Respect. The most I've ever made it was three days.
On the third day, I hallucinated that the hinges on the bathroom stall door were moving up and down, and that a small piece of fluff on the floor was moving towards me whenever I looked away, and that's when I finally went to bed.
Made it to day 3 & Everything felt alive
Why is 5 me all the time
Congrats man! You found your calling in life and a killin' it!! Can't wait to read your book!!
You missed the African lungfish, people have accidently made mudbricks containing them, then when there is a particularly heavy rain a few years later, suddenly the wall breaks open and the fish starts crawling towards the nearest pond.
o.o
I was going to make a rock and roll joke, but that is messed up.
"Nice architecture, one small issue: I am inside your wall."
THIS! I was trying to remember the name of this d*mn fish the entire video. Thank you.💯
Speaking of platypus, I have a platypus plushie and every day I come home from work, I go "Oh, there you are Perry." just to brighten my day a bit.
Aww
This is.. literally so precious 😭
3:48
I know they're smelly, noisey, violent little monsters, but that's cute as heck right there.
“Fun” animal fact: Shrike’s impale their prey on sticks to save them for later, also known as “butcherbirds” they are famous for being fairly brutal songbirds. They catch all kinds of animals, including crickets, lizards, and small birds, and impale them on sticks to save them for later.
Didn't he cover that?
I was happy to see an Australian butcher bird in my backyard just yesterday! I haven't seen one for months.
@@NannupTiger you were happy?
@@strombreakr I’m not sure? He does a shite ton of these videos, and each 1 has, now I’m guessing here but, I’d say roughly 10-20 facts about animals… so it very well could’ve been an animal he talked about, but I don’t think so…?
@@pikachusucks5151 Absolutely, why wouldn't I be? These birds are an important part of the natural ecology. Seeing it means my backyard is healthy for wildlife.
8:15 I can’t be the only one that heard him saying “ damn it woman “
Your music, meme and word play choices are so dman great!
I think the sloth enclosure with the painted leaves was from my local zoo when they were severely underfunded. the poor dudes were asleep every time I saw them back then. you'll be pleased to hear we voted to increase their funding several years ago and they made swift and effective use of it to replace every bare concrete enclosure and provide the animals with better stimulation! I still remember the first time I saw that sloth awake
Always get excited to see a new video go up from you. Always informative, and yet entertaining. Have always had a fondness and enjoyed learning more about animals, Thank you for all you do and have taught me through the channel. Cheers man.
@Challenge fuck off bitch and quit spamming
I always love the background ost video game choices, fits so well
The commitment to calling them platypeople is respectable
Is it
I think it's because TH-cam might misinterpret saying the word properly as something else.
“When u can force quit out of life and not even die u deserve to at least get mentioned” this man has a way with words🤣
I love that you chose Hollow Knight’s Greenpath OST for the first part of the video, It feels so nostalgic now and I’m all for it
10:36 its such BS how cuddly and soft bears look, but just are absolute murder machines if you look at them funny
0:10 for anyone wondering the song is called hoist the colors by Colm Mcguinness.
The amount of work you put into these videos is so worth it. Very talented. I laugh, I learn and overall I just enjoy your content. Thank you.
I’ve actually experienced the whole “brain shutting off” because of a lack of sleep. It’s kinda Scary, your not in control.
Had it once standing at the checkstand in supermarket. Next thing I knew I was lying on the floor with a scratch on my nose, been away for probably 30 seconds. Was pretty ok after that powernap.
The worst part is you don't even realize you fell asleep. Like I'll be watching a video late at night and then I blink and the video's over. Straight up feels like I time travelled
I once stayed up for 4 or 5 days straight, due to going off medication… it was absolutely insane. Do not recommend, buuuuut it was interesting.
I've had it where when sleep deprived long enough, what starts to happen is you have uncontrollable day dreams that start to blind into your "reality" so comes a point of you don't know what's real or not, but while in that state the day dreams are real and its not until you snap out of it fully that you realize it's not.
When my kid was really little it was like that some days.
I absolutely love your videos ❤️ plus the hollow knight music in the beginning wohoo 🤸🏻♀️
With your research and humorous writing, your channel deserves the success you've achieved. Big fan.
Your one of my all time favorite people on TH-cam. You are awesome!
I LOVE your videos, you’re the only channel that gets animal facts brutally right 😄
00:52 it's little known fact that not only is every breath they take a choice but also.
every move they make
Every bond they break
Every step you take
Theyll be watching you
I love how you moved to making higher production value videos that fit the youtube format. Of course one can't forget what got them fame and I'm not dunkng on Tiktok but it's really nice to see how good this channel looks after 2 years of being subscribed to it.
I’ve noticed a lot of TikTok creators are moving over to TH-cam and making more long-form content lately. I wonder if it’s because this platform is better for longer and more nuanced videos and discussions as opposed to TikTok which has a time limit of 1-3 min max and has a character limit for comments.
I love that you use game tracks as your background music, the hollow knight music gets me everytime
I’ve always had terrible insomnia, I regularly stay awake for 2 or 3 days at a time. He’s right, stuff gets weird around day 3. Visual hallucinations of shadow people or seeing vaguely human shaped things moving around in your peripheral vision. Auditory hallucinations such as hearing whispering or singing when there’s no one around. Even when you know it’s not real, it’s pretty freaky.
It's a good thing i don't have nightmares often, because of i did i think that comment would cause them.
I'm so sorry you have to go through that. Missing 2-4 hours of sleep on a semi regular basis is bad enough. (I know that much from experience)
OH WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE TIME, IT'S MY TIME FOR BED
That sounds awful, I'm so sorry you have to go through that.
I wonder if people experiencing what you do after not sleeping for a few days could be the reason behind a lot of ghost stories?
@peggedyourdad9560 right! Think though, maybe sleep deprivation allows the mind to see the supernatural
As a child I once managed to fall asleep for about almost 18 hours without waking up. Went to sleep at around 9pm, next time I woke up was 3pm the next day. Idk why or how this happened though. It was at my grandmas place and when I woke up she was out for a walk. After she came back even she said she was glad I was awake cause she was starting to worry. To this day I just guess my body somehow needed that much rest during that time.
Just wanted to share this funny little story about sleeping for so long since this video is about sleep as well
Also i apologize if there are any grammar or spelling mistakes cause english isn’t my first language.
Have a wonderful day/night everyone^^
Daam 18 hours? Could you sleep again or did you wait a few days until you could sleep again? How did your body feel?
@@dogidogediggidydogedd957
I don't remember much anymore but if my memory is correct, I could sleep normally the next night as well and I would say I felt good or at least pretty normal after that long sleep. Not tired and sleepy after waking up but also not like I had too much energy. Sometimes today I wish I could once again sleep that long, maybe it would help against that almost constant feeling of being tired...
I fell asleep for 25 hours once. When I woke up I thought I was only asleep for one hour lol
Was this maybe followed by a growth spurt? My son and my nephew both had times where they’d eat more than usual before growth spurts; it would make sense if extra rest was what your body needed in order to do what’s necessary
@@grapeyard1778 bro wtf!? What did you do 😳
11:08 "When life starts Lifeing too hard"
It happens... Ohh it does😔
As someone with both chronic intermittent insomnia, and delayed sleep phase disorder (first melatonin release is hours later at night than normal for an adult), microsleeps are annoying when at home, and terrifying in public.
I've had my brain trigger them while standing, while holding conversation, while eating... and the more stressed it makes you the worse they get.
I have Chronic Fatigue and use to have micro-sleeps a lot, it was terrifying getting micro sleep in school because I was always a good student before and had never fallen asleep, trying to fight it and not being able to still haunts me. What was confusing was that I use to get it even after 9 hours of sleep so I didn’t understand what it was, but now I’m aware that I need closer to 13-16 hours of sleep to feel awake.
Can't you just take melatonin supplements? They're the safest sleep aid and they helped me when I had that problem.
@@OpalRaeven could be your thyroid get that checked as well
@@ANPC-pi9vu No. it interacts with some of my meds and worsens exploding head syndrome episodes
@@-Ghostess Damn. Rip, then. Sorry to hear that.
3:43 WOW. For an animal that can’t recognize their own food on a plate, eating dirt sounds pretty adventurous
DUDE I LOVE THE HOLLOW KNIGHT MUSIC YOU USED FOR THIS VIDEO I RECOGNIZE THE SOUNDTRACK FROM ANYWHERE LMAO
That picture 4:05 actually scared me. Why does that koala look like it just ended someone.
Go tell your momma a lady from Alaska says, "Thank you for raising your boy to see and share his humor in a sometimes scary world. You did a great job." Then give her a hug and squeeze till she toots. Lol don't ever loose the ability to see humor the way you do. It keeps us sane.
As always...thanks for the entertaining and informative content 🙂
I love this channel. You're the main source of all the animal facts I share with my family every day. In fact, I think I could stay up ALL NIGHT watching your content!
I think its more wild that the Tardigrades lifespan is between 2 months and 2 years depending on the particular species but that it can literally just kinda go basically irls version of afk for like literally longer than any other species on earth and then just come back whenever they feel like it even if that time spent afk is longer than its actual lifespan.
You only got 2 years to live.
OK. You didn't say *when* I had to live them.
@@tetravega567 exactly
Those bears developed a "brb" function that basically makes them immortal
More proof that tardigrades are very broken. Good point though, most microbes have very short lifespans so one that's gone into suspended animation could skip over a thousand generations of its own kind potentially, wonder how that works for species compatibility since they can essentially timeskip forward, or maybe they're already not genetically complex enough for mutations to have that big of an impact between multiple generations? Idk but now I'm kinda curious about how that works, like has anyone tried letting a sample population continue on as normal but put a portion of them into that state for a few years then reintroduced the ones that had gone into suspended animation into the original population to see if any changes occured, or am I the only one that's thought about it? Wondering because shorter lived creatures can see variation occure over a few generations but idk about super small creatures, how stable their genetics actually are compared to more complex species
@@discordiacreates6669 thats a pretty good point. Ive never really thought about it like that. Looks like you’ve come up with a great idea if a scientist hasnt already tested it yet they should.
So they basically can pull a Philip J. Fry?
Sleep is fascinating. It's such an essential part of so many animals' life, yet it's so different. One wonders what determines a given lifeforms sleep requirements.
Man I love this channel. Your content is always consistent and awesome. One of the best commentary youtubers around. Keep it up man I'll always be watching!
"If humans can evolve past the need for sleep" is a sentence that I just can't wrap my head around
Octopus changing color while asleep is the most adorable thing I’ve hear this week
Im surprised you didn't mention the ferrit, and its very strange form of deep sleep that sometimes gets them mistaken for dead and buried alive.
That is so sad!!
I am sure that if we would spend more time awake, we would be forced to work more hours as well. So I am fine with my 8h of sleep,... because escapism.
Edit, 02:11:
As a test, just to see how long I could do it, I decided to stay awake when I had 2 weeks vacation, was alone at my family home and didn't have to take care of any animals. I was 16 and I managed to stay awake for 6 days.
Of what I remember, pushing past the second day was the hardest, then the third one was no problem again, but shadows started to move, just out of the corner of the eye. The fourth one was when the shadows moved even when you had your eyes on them for more than a few seconds. Near the end of the fourth day, starting the fifth, was when the full on hallucinations came. I don't remember much about the fifth day, only that I was still clear enough in my head to *know* that all the weird things I saw were nothing but hallucinations caused by sleep deprivation,... which made me laugh (I remember laughing at some point). And not much is left in my memory about the sixth day, except that my family came back, I went to bed, seeing that I couldn't continue with the experiment when my family was at home, and slept for about 14h.
Even if my family would have stayed away for longer, I probably would have only managed to stay awake for another day tops, more likely just a couple of hours longer.
If I was about to try this again, with 31, I'd most likely quit the second day in, because fuck it, I love my bed way too much. lol
Microsleeps are amazing you
are completely aware of your surroındings and have dreams in those a few secs or mins. And just 2 hours of microsleep is enough for the whole day.
When I was in uni I had cripling depression that cause severe sleep issues sometimes I would go 8 hours a week sleep. I would sit in front of the class and microsleep for 2 classes . And it was hillarious because everytime teacher said somewhere is important I would wake up write it down then go back to sleep a few secs after.
If I remember right, there’s also a kind of moth who’s caterpillar that lives on (or at least close to) one of the poles. It spends very short springs and summers eating as much food as it can find, and if it doesn’t get enough food to pupate, it simply lets itself freeze. Then, when it thaws out again, it just repeats the process till it can turn into a moth.
Thank you for the work you do in researching animals other than ourselves, and helping people to understand their sentience is often close to ours but also very often different. That they are worthy and have as much right as us to live in their natural environments without us deliberately harming them for no Good reason whatsoever, and they have the right to protect themselves.
I love that you use RuneScape music. Text me back to when I used to play it. But it also adds a little character while you're narrating.
Fun(ish) fact: People who are suffering from depression and anxiety spend more time in REM sleep than average, which is probably why they often report having very weird vivid dreams. On that note, I should probably tell my psychologist that I'm still having weird vivid dreams again...
The absolute mood of these posts is amazing. His voice is easily in my top 10 of 'things to listen to while doing chores'. So informative, and so get-up-and-do-something-useful.
Been binging all your content here recently and you've put me back in my periodic, "know everything weird about animals" arc again
everytime i go on a binge of your vids. i wanna play old school runescape. you sir are a masterclass at keeping it fun!
You can play it on phone now!
Most of the music he uses seems to be from the objectively better RuneScape 3
He took inspiration from TierZoo, who also does animal videos and is an actual OSRS player
Aaw, that puppy was having a bad dream and it's siblings came to the rescue. Now that's adorable 😍
Not you, too. Don't anthropomorphize. Just a bunch of cute puppies snoozing and wandering around.
@@dragoncubes1074 As long as noone can prove why we dream or even how i dont mind endulging in the fantasy that animals comfort each other just like humans do. Notice i used the word fantasy.
Considering that dogs can sense distress in humans it isn't a stretch to speculate that they can sense it other dogs, especially siblings
@@chadfalardeau5396 Adding on the fact that dogs on average have around the same level of intelligence and emotional capacity as a 2-year-old human child.