OK, kids, we have a fun fact about sleeping and waking up today in science class.
You know that our natural instinct is to sleep when we’re tired and stay in bed as long as we can, but there’s a special particle that grows in our brain while we’re sleeping. When it grows large enough, it pops and sends a signal to the rest of our body to wake up and get going.
Because it overturns our natural tendency to inertia, we call it the “upend atom.” It responds to sound, so moms, spouses and drill sergeants through the ages have found it helps to shout its name to assist in the process.
Without the upend atom, who knows how long we could be lying there like a lump, blissfully unaware of reality?
