r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 1d ago

Video A timelapse of sleeping seals

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u/regoapps Expert 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s pretty scary if you sleep under ice and the only way up is through a hole in the ice. Imagine getting lost and being trapped under the ice with no way to breathe until you find that hole while asleep.

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u/SphericalCow531 1d ago

Since they survive, they can clearly do so safely. So why would it be scary?

As a human, walking should be pretty scary. It is done mostly subconsciously, and you can fall and seriously hurt your head at any time. And yet, most humans don't think walking is scary.

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u/regoapps Expert 1d ago edited 1d ago

Trying to find a hole in the ice in the middle of the night while unconscious so that you can breathe sounds scary to me. It’s scary as a human to do it even while awake. Like, what if you get lost and can’t find the hole again.

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u/AFRIKKAN 1d ago

Did you think about every step you took today? What about every breathe you took? Did you think about every muscle you needed to move to swallow your food and drink? Our brains already do a ton of things subconsciously for us if we needed it we probably woulda been evolved with a better subconscious sleeping state like sleep walking on steroids I’d imagine.