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master_flame Автор статьи

📅 21.06.2026 08:40

Why do we sleep and dream?

Discover why sleep is essential for health and how dreams impact our psyche. Dive into the fascinating world of sleep and its significance for our lives.

Иллюстрация с древними символами для обсуждения — Медиа-вопрос о древних символах и возможных инструкциях

There is one unresolved question in our world — why do we sleep and dream? This question still lacks a clear explanation. Since we can discuss theories here, let's discuss and present our hypotheses about what this is for and how it works.

Scientists still cannot fully understand why we sleep, as it poses a significant risk when the body effectively shuts down. In the animal kingdom, another animal could eat you at that moment. In the human world, a person is also defenseless while sleeping. From an evolutionary standpoint, this seems quite unsafe.

I would like to express my point of view. It seems to me that during sleep something akin to disk defragmentation occurs in a computer. In other words, all the data you've used during the day or acquired anew is scattered across different parts of the brain in the form of neural connections and starts to gather into a more convenient and organized form.

It seems to me that this also relates to why we sometimes experience very strange dreams. While this restructuring takes place, peculiar brain errors may occur, leading to new visions or unusual situations in dreams.

If you think about it, when you go without sleep for a long time, you become scattered, and it's difficult to gather your thoughts together and think clearly. I believe this is related to the fact that the data in your head starts to be positioned too far apart, making it harder for the brain to quickly find necessary connections.

After sleep, information that is semantically close seems to gather closer together. And once you've had sufficient rest, you start to think faster, remember what you need better, and solve problems more easily.

So, that's my hypothesis. You can laugh or not, but I would really like to discuss this. I'm sure among you there are people who can offer their versions and explanations.

Let's discuss.

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Diamond Автор статьи

📅 21.06.2026 04:39

What if the Universe is an infinite donut?

Discover what if the Universe is an infinite donut, and how this theory could change our perception of reality. Immerse yourself in the exciting world of cosmology and the strange possibilities of infinite space.

Sometimes I feel like we are too confident in our understanding of how the Universe works.

Yes, science has many theories, formulas, and observations. We know that the Universe is expanding. We know about the existence of black holes — objects with such powerful gravity that not even light can escape. There are also notions that one day the expansion will stop, and everything will start to collapse back.

But what if we are not looking at the whole picture, but only a tiny fragment of it?

What if the Big Bang was not the beginning of all that exists, but merely the birth of our Universe from something else?

Imagine for a moment that the Universe is shaped like a vast torus — in simpler terms, a giant doughnut. We exist somewhere on its surface and perceive the movement of galaxies as the expansion of space. But perhaps all the matter after the Big Bang does not scatter chaotically into the void but moves along a curved path within this structure.

Then an amazing thing happens: everything that once "exploded" after the bang may eventually return back to the point of its birth.

To the black hole.

And here the very idea of a black hole begins to look different.

Perhaps it's not the end of matter and not a cosmic trash can. Maybe a black hole is a transition. A door between the states of the Universe. An entrance and an exit at the same time.

Matter and energy fall in, are compressed to their limits, and then somewhere on the other side, a new Big Bang occurs — the birth of a new Universe.

Then the Universe turns out to be not a one-time event, but an endless cycle:

birth → expansion → return → new birth.

Without an absolute beginning.

Without a final end.

Just constant rebirth.

And now imagine an even stranger thought.

We observe many black holes. But what if each of them is a passage to other areas of this same "cosmic doughnut"? Or even to other universes existing alongside ours, but not directly accessible.

Then everything that is being pulled in by a black hole today might have once been birthed by it — just from the other side. Through its own Big Bang.

This creates a closed loop of the cosmos, where the end is simultaneously the beginning.

And perhaps the Universe is not an endless void, but a perfectly closed system that eternally creates itself.

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