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Fri 12 Aug, 2005 08:20 am
Why do people weigh more when they are asleep?
You can tell if a child is asleep or pretending by how heavy they are when you're carrying them.
Can you physically do anything to make yourself lighter when someone is carrying you?
I dont think people are heavier when they are asleep. 100 lbs is 100lbs no matter what.
I think they are more AWKWARD to carry when they are asleep because their muscles are completely relaxed and you have to support the total person. Where as, when they are awake they can be more rigid and help support themselves while you carry them.
I dont have any scientific terminology for it but I think its because they are relaxed.
This may not account for the heaviness side of things but I heard that a big deterent in the (unlikely)case of being abducted is to go relaxed and floppy.
Its so much more difficult for someone to carry you when all you muscles and limbs are working and flailing about but if you act like a dead weight, your body is relaxed and will literally slip through any grip.
I just realised that doesnt answer your question but i wanted to join in.
Why do people weigh more when they are asleep?
Because they are not paying attention.
A sleeping person is "dead weight".
A sleeping person--or a corpse--makes no effort to cooperate or balance when being carried.
Because the beer and roophies I fed her all night adds at least 5 lbs.
They haven't had a chance to urinate.
Where do you think the term "stoned" came from?
Because you weigh heavier at night. Haven't you heard to weigh yourself in the morning because you weigh less. Either that or slappy's reasoning.
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