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+title: What sleep is for
+kind: problem
+status: open
+year: 1953
+statement: Why do animals sleep, given the risks of being unconscious?
+space: neuroscience
+---
+Every animal studied closely sleeps, including fruit flies and jellyfish. Proposed functions include memory consolidation, synaptic downscaling and clearing metabolic waste, and none is established as the core reason.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Sleep](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep)
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+[[Space:neuroscience|The brain]] · [[Continent:mind|Mind]]
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Every animal studied closely sleeps, including fruit flies and jellyfish. Proposed functions include memory consolidation, synaptic downscaling and clearing metabolic waste, and none is established as the core reason.