How do eels sleep? I’m guessing it’s weird like dolphins so they can keep their mouths moving? Or am I totally off?

snowflakeeel:

huh i’m not sure. i don’t think anyone’s done a polysomnography on a sleeping eel before…. 

although i would assume that they sleep in a similar fashion to other fish. I don’t think it would be anything special. 

 when noodle sleeps she usually leans against something and slows down her breathing. her mouth still opens and shuts but it doesn’t balloon out like it does when she’s awake. although i doubt she’d need to do anything differently with her brain or whatever…. it’s kinda just breathing. i breathe in my sleep all the time. 

Dolphins sleep weird so they can keep surfacing to take breaths. Fish sleep regularly because their breathing isn’t anything strange, even with the open-and-close mouth motions.