What happens to your brain during sleep?

Have you ever wonder what your brain does during your “lights out” time? Does it shut down
with you or stay awake?
Well the answer is no they don’t shut down!. As we all know sleeping is one of the most
important thing that we do everyday, this process helps you to recharge, clear waste from your
brain, and eventually help you to do your daily task better on the next day. The brain generates
two distinct types of sleep—slow-wave sleep, known as deep sleep, and rapid eye movement,
also called dreaming sleep. Most of the sleeping we do is of the slow wave sleep variety,
characterized by large, slow brain waves, relaxed muscles and slow, deep breathing, which may
help the brain and body to recover after a long day. When we fall asleep, the brain does not
merely go offline, instead to sleep the brain would go through stages. Basically sleeping starts in
the brain areas that produce slow sleep waves. Scientists proved that two groups of cells are
involved in prompting slow sleep waves. When these cells switch on, it triggers a loss of
consciousness, which then lead to another fascinating stage called Rapid Eye Movements.
During this, a dreamer's brain becomes highly active while the body's muscles are paralyzed,
and breathing and heart rate become erratic. This process is very important to us, so this is why
we should take this serious and make sure to have enough sleep everyday, in order to prevent
unwanted sickness and diseases affect our body.