Posted: Oct 30, 2022 4:06 am
Sara4321 wrote:This has nothing to do with the fact that the reflex to breathe through your mouth during sleep when the nose is blocked does not happen during sleep.
It unironically has everything to do with that. Your autonomic nervous system doesn't cease to function when you go to sleep.
The body will continue to try and breathe through the blocked nose instead, resulting in hypoxia and then death.
So are you of the impression that you're the only human being in recorded history to have a bad cold, or are you under the impression that every human in recorded history to have a bad cold either refused to sleep until it passed or suffocated overnight?