The brain can start eating itself if it doesn’t get enough sleep. Sleep loss can trigger astrocytes to start breaking down more of the brain’s connections and their debris
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Well, I guess I’ll finally go to sleep after this post
saw this meme before
this is half true half misleading
in a experiment with mice they did see something bad happening that you could call eating itself
but that picture is a lie your brain wont look like that
if it did you be dead
its a cerebral dissection
Thanks to sleep apnea my brain will likely starve to death any day now. Not like there was a whole lot there to start with…
Thats enough internet for today…
Finally, a reason for me to care about getting sleep.
I’m really glad I gave up meth
“Another group were kept awake for five days in a row“
This group better get paid more than the other group. Terrifying to be them.
Brainrot is real
in fact, “eating itself” is the wrong term, as it neither chews nor digests itself. it merely breaks down
So exactly how much sleep do I need to skip for this to be fetal?
Falling asleep at random times if the day doesn’t seem too bad now
I slept 3 hours cuz overthinking this night and now I see this.Yeah
me with cronical insomnia:
😀
*cries in shift worker*
Scrolling Reddit at 5:50am trying to fall back asleep… 🫨
Well fuck. I have severe (PTSD related) insomnia for almost 14 years now and this isn’t really reassuring.
How can I unread this
The silver lining? At least you can’t feel it
My T1 diabetes means i almost never get an uninterrupted nights sleep. I’ll just put this new health fear over here on this massive pile of others.
Dont fucken tell me that
whelp im fucked
Don’t tell this to university students.
okay not me seeing this without sleep for almost 24hrs now.
this explains the russian sleep experiment
edit: /s
Mmmm brain suop -brian
I’ve worked at least 6 years in a six days a week, 14hrs double shift job.
I’d get like 2hrs of sleep daily because I’d stay up very late to have some time to myself and my hobbies rather than just get home, go to sleep, and wake up to go to work…fuck that.
My brain must be swiss cheese right now, but it was worth it.