Why Do Predators Really Leave You Alone While You Sleep?
Fauna Code
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Why can you lie paralysed and unconscious in the dark for hours while nothing comes to eat you?
It is not your locked door. It is a stack of defences, almost none of which live inside your body.
A Hadza camp in 2016 had someone awake for 99.8% of the night. Border Cave's 200,000-year-old grass beds were burned clean and relaid over ash. Lions killed more than 560 people in Tanzania between 1990 and 2004, while Greater Kruger animals fled human voices faster than lion growls. Insecticide-treated bed nets account for about 68% of the malaria cases prevented between 2000 and 2015.
Tonight you will lie down as defenceless as your ancestors did, and this is why you get away with it. The video is educational and not medical advice.
Topics covered:
The paralysis of REM sleep
The Hadza camp and staggered sleepers
The half-awake brain in hotels
Border Cave grass beds and ash
Tanzania's lion attacks and the moon
Why predators fear human voices
Mosquitoes and insecticide-treated bed nets
Bears, Tsavo lions and skewed fear
The five layers of protection
#SleepScience #HumanEvolution #Documentary #Predators
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He recognized this very quickly so didn’t move. Thought about what to do. He acknowledged there was no action he could take that would increase his chances of living. So he decided to just try to go back to sleep.
Eventually the lion woke up and walked away.
I thought about asking him if that was the most scared he ever was but then remembered this is a boming navigator that once was in a bomber they had over loaded. When he activated the bombs and opened the bomb doors the bombs got jammed and didn’t fall out. So he grabbed the longest piece of metal he could find, climbed down above the open bomb doors, and giggled the bombs till they fell out. Climbed out and closed the doors.
He said he was just doing his job and would not accept a metal for it.
His life was much different than mine.
Why Do Predators Really Leave You Alone While You Sleep?
Fauna Code
17,907 views
Why can you lie paralysed and unconscious in the dark for hours while nothing comes to eat you?
It is not your locked door. It is a stack of defences, almost none of which live inside your body.
A Hadza camp in 2016 had someone awake for 99.8% of the night. Border Cave's 200,000-year-old grass beds were burned clean and relaid over ash. Lions killed more than 560 people in Tanzania between 1990 and 2004, while Greater Kruger animals fled human voices faster than lion growls. Insecticide-treated bed nets account for about 68% of the malaria cases prevented between 2000 and 2015.
Tonight you will lie down as defenceless as your ancestors did, and this is why you get away with it. The video is educational and not medical advice.
Topics covered:
The paralysis of REM sleep
The Hadza camp and staggered sleepers
The half-awake brain in hotels
Border Cave grass beds and ash
Tanzania's lion attacks and the moon
Why predators fear human voices
Mosquitoes and insecticide-treated bed nets
Bears, Tsavo lions and skewed fear
The five layers of protection
#SleepScience #HumanEvolution #Documentary #Predators