Sleep Is the Biggest Mistake the Evolutionary Process Has Ever Made

"Sleep is a life support system, and it is mother nature's best effort yet at immortality. I nothing else that comes close to it," he says. Wolkenberg: "If sleep doesn't serve an absolutely vital function, it is the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made." He argues that we started off awake and then evolved to sleep. 'It turns the tables on how we think about sleep as a necessity'