TIL When asked, after 50 years of research, what he knew about the reason people sleep, William Dement, founder of Stanford University's Sleep Research Center, answered, "As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Dement



Submitted December 22, 2014 at 08:02PM by Owlsdoom http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2q2k5l/til_when_asked_after_50_years_of_research_what_he/