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Previously on Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World.

Just now the ship was pro with that old radiation.

I wasn't aware of this. Truthfully, Sean Luke. I've been entirely preoccupied by the

most frightening experience of my own. A couple of hours ago, I realized that my body was no longer

functioning properly. I felt weak. I could no longer stand. The life was oozing out of me.

I lost consciousness. You fell asleep. Oh, terrifying. How can you stand a day after day?

You get used to it.

You're listening to episode 98 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, where we look at mysteries from

the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, we're talking about the mystery of

sleep. I'm Don Betanelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi, Jimmy. Howdy, Don.

Did you get enough sleep there, Jimmy? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just we record these things early

on a Saturday morning West Coast time. So yes, that's right. So let's talk about sleep. Every day

creatures all over the world go into shutdown mode. They stop moving. They lose consciousness.

And then hours later, their minds turn back on again and they go about their business.

But something else also happens in between. They have strange visions that don't correspond to

what happens to them in waking life. What we call dreams. Humans spend a third of their lives

asleep about eight hours a day, but some creatures go for months at a time asleep. Yet, despite

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