The Purpose of Sleeping

If sleeping and dreaming do not perform vital biological functions, then they must represent nature's most stupid blunder and most colossal waste of time.

Notes:

There must be a purpose, or evolution really blundered.

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 Evolutionary psychiatry
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Stevens , Anthony and Price , John (2000), Evolutionary psychiatry, Psychology Press, Retrieved on 2012-06-23
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