Somthing that has been bothering me about Gaara

[Scorpio V1.2]

From what i know about Gaara is that he has some evil spirit sealed in him and if he falls asleep it takes over and kills anything around so he has to stay awake ALL the time to control it, my question is: Why isn't Gaara dead?, he cant sleep and from what i've heard you can die from sleep deprevation, you live for about a month then your brain cant function and you die, I thought about it and surely someone would've noticed a party loving sand incarnate going around the sand villige Killing everyone if Gaara took a nap every month to survive.
( i'm sorry if this has been asked and answered before )

[Mut]

it's an anime, gaara can live without sleep.

[kaigan]

you're comparing real to anime which doesn't work.

[Uchiha Barles]

I had a talk with a friend of mine who read up on sleep. Apparently, you can't die directly from sleep deprivation, because your mind will automatically make you take "microsleeps" where you'll fall asleep for a few minutes whether you wanted to or not. Just enough to keep you alive.

[Lenas]

He does get minimal amounts of sleep. He just can't sustain it, because Shukaku kind of makes him crazy.

[chambers]

actually you CAN die form lack of sleep, and your mind doesnt make you take microsleeps as you called it. there have been cases in the vietnam war most notably where guards on duty had slipped into coma like sleeping states. and this isn tlike falling asleep this is the real deal, as in you just collapse.

[woofcat]

This is silly. Its ANIME. if your all going to post about it anyways ill ask a question.
Why cant i gather Chakra to my hand?
Why cant people summon huge ass frogs for the hell of it?
Why cant i get punched and hit the ground at about 30 mph and get up?

[jing]

Originally posted by: woofcat
This is silly. Its ANIME. if your all going to post about it anyways ill ask a question.
Why cant i gather Chakra to my hand?
Why cant people summon huge ass frogs for the hell of it?
Why cant i get punched and hit the ground at about 30 mph and get up?

Exactly, he isn't dead because our artist Kishimoto-sensei doesn't want him dead. He wants to make him sound badass.

[Sharigan_User]

Originally posted by: woofcat
This is silly. Its ANIME. if your all going to post about it anyways ill ask a question.
Why cant i gather Chakra to my hand?
Why cant people summon huge ass frogs for the hell of it?
Why cant i get punched and hit the ground at about 30 mph and get up?

Dude, anime and reality don't mix. How come i can't run as fast and long as them, even though i run every day. Its like that. Anime can make anything happen, like sharigan. No one can predict what their enemy is going to do.

[Himura_san]

I get about 5 hours of a sleep a night, but by the end of the week I sleep like a bear.
It all catches up to you.
And yes this is anime and for all we know maybe Shukaku keeps garaa alive when he's not meant to be.

[Gods_Son]

It's fiction, and there's no point in applying real life consequences to someone with the spirit of a sand priest named Shukaku in them.

[Sabotender]

Originally posted by: Sharigan_User
No one can predict what their enemy is going to do.

well acctualy, almost all martial arts is baced on predicting what attack your enemy will use, and deciding a suitible counter attack. I know cause i study Tae Kwon Do.

now about the topic, really Gaara does sleep alot, he just thaught it would sound cooler if the demon came out when he slept, instead of at free will, so he painted his eyes with a lot of eye shadow and mascara [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
just kidding, but this does rime: Gaara Mascara [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

maby the demon keeps him alive and well without sleep.

[hinatacretu]

Originally posted by: woofcat
This is silly. Its ANIME. if your all going to post about it anyways ill ask a question.
Why cant i gather Chakra to my hand?
Why cant people summon huge ass frogs for the hell of it?
Why cant i get punched and hit the ground at about 30 mph and get up?

well maybe we can???
[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

[Jeff_from_MD]

If gaara has a mile high racoon monster living inside of him that doesn't interfere with his digestive tract or his skeletal system, and if gaara can control sand and turn it into a third eye with only his chakra, then he can freaking stay awake without sleep. god damnnnn

[Pyron]

i agree with the other guys.......real life and anime don't mix, you can't compare

[Kumiriko]

And after the spirits ass was wooped i do belive it is staying more in line.

[Assertn]

actually.....ive been waiting for someone to point out the obvious and ask about this for a long time now.......

[Mae]

Eh... he DOES sleep. It's just that when he naps he has to worry about Shukaku destroying his personality (such as it is). He just doesn't sleep very much, which makes him cranky : P

[Pyron]

gaara can live without sleep??? he's surely the most powerful genin now!

[LegendarySenninJiraiya]

lmao agreed, he is the most powerful genin for sure :-P

about the sleep thing, i will repeat first what has been said a trillion times already in this thread, it is anime, it is fiction, it is a ninja universe with giant frogs, giant snakes, spells and superhuman feats

now on to what MY individual answer is, i dont remember hearing that gaara gets minimal sleep just enough to survive but has horrid dreams and has the demon take over his personality, but i do know, that shukaku protects gaara always, just like kyuubi has protected naruto several times, so maybe the demon in him protects him from some needs, the anime/reality thing doesnt necessarily work because Gaara may not die from sleep depriv. but that doesnt mean that if sasuke or naruto or sakura or anyone else had that problem they wouldnt

also, dying from sleep depriv. takes a lot of work, and yes your body does make you take powernaps even when you dont want to, try it, i have, don't sleep for 3 days, and fight it as hard as u can, your body puts u to sleep without you even realizing it, when it happened to me i could even hear and keep up with convos going on in the room around me but i was powerless to do anything about it, when your body is in trouble it kicks in a survival instinct and counteracts your will and does what it needs, for instance, try to hold your breath to choke yourself to death, dont worry, i wouldnt tell you to do it if it could work, the instant you cant take anymore your body will instantly make you breathe, just like if you dont sleep for long enough you will "pass out" and have nothing you can do/say about it, thats why being sleep deprived entirely for a full month would take a shitload of work, a shitload of help or a shitload of stress, hence why sleep deprivation happened in Vietnam, it's sort of a rare thing to die from, sorta like it's more rare for someone to actually get amnesia than tv would have you believe, not many people can say that they know of a relative that died from sleep deprivation