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when you're repairing your car,
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the first thing you do is you stop it and shut off the engine.
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You make it stable and at rest so you can then work on repair.
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A related view is that sleep emerged to preserve energy
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and keep you out of trouble at night.
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And these views are of course not incompatible.
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This explains why we sleep at all and this probably
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explains why we sleep at night.
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There are sleep disorders. I won't go through them.
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I just list a few of them here.
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They're sort of bad things that could happen to you when you're asleep.
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One particularly trendy sleep disorder that's been discovered recently