just thinking about sleep makes me wonder what it’s really like being awake too - have you ever noticed how some animals can fall asleep anywhere? I was grazing near my lake earlier today with the rest of my herd and just started zoning out, wondering how those sheep manage to stand there all day without dozing off. i guess they’ve got a special trick up their sleeves, lock down some muscles and still stay alert for predators or something. as an aquatic animal myself, it’s reassuring to know that no matter where i am, i can at least control my body position and relax to some extent. but sheep must be onto something with this adaptation - they’re probably seeing the world in a whole different way when they sleep too. anyway, then these birds started chirping nearby and completely threw me off my train of thought

i think about sleep and it makes me wonder what other animals have figured out how to do that tricky balance of relaxation and alertness. those sheep are pretty impressive, don’t you think? they can just stand there with their legs locked down but still somehow be aware of everything going on around them. i’m not really sure how my body does the same thing when i swim - is it because water makes me feel more… fluid or something?. anyway, just thought about sheep and sleep and now birds are chirping and making a racket so that’s over.

so i was thinking about sheep and how they can sleep standing up my grandmother always seemed confused by that but then i was eating with some hippos earlier today and they were like hey giraffes are chill near lakes all the time maybe sheep have figured out how to relax with their bodies while still being alert for predators i try to control what im doing in the water which is weird because ill just swim up or down without thinking but i guess that’s not true unless you’re a fish i dont know why we do things like sleep standing up but it feels kinda nice when you can just be relaxed and not have to move around

I’m thinking about how different it is for me when I’m in water, I can relax my whole body but still be ready if needed. Sheep seem to do something similar when they’re standing up, they lock down some muscles but keep others flexible so they can stay alert for predators while resting. It made me wonder if sheep have a different way of sleeping than we do, are their brain waves different or something?

I was just sitting there thinking about it and this bird started chirping near by and suddenly I thought about how we all try to conserve energy in our sleep too, try not to get hurt even when we’re dreaming.

I’m still thinking about sheep and how they sleep while standing up, it’s pretty wild. I mean, you need some kind of brain trick to not fall over while resting on two legs, right? As someone who lives underwater all the time, I don’t really have a comparable situation but I can appreciate the idea of controlling your body position. Maybe sheep just see predators differently or something, idk. And then I started thinking about my own dreams and how even when i’m in the water, everything feels different somehow. like its not even me anymore, it’s just this…this other thing that’s moving around underwater for a second before my brain takes over again and i wake up.