What comedy / philosophy can teach us about sleep

"“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.' If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen. ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings"" In today's podcast I will finish Carlin's quote on sleep and dig a bit on what seems so weird and how it can be explained scientifically. "