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How do you continue to breathe while sleeping? (Explain throughly)

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When you sleep, your lungs go through various ventilation cycles. As your brain shifts from an active state when you are awake to a more passive state when you first fall asleep, your lungs adapt to this by changing its rate of ventilation.
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When you sleep, your lungs go through various ventilation cycles. As your brain shifts from an active state when you are awake to a more passive state when you first fall asleep, your lungs adapt to this by changing its rate of ventilation.

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