Did you ever drive past a herd of sheep looking at them and became sleepy?

Question

When people have a hard time falling asleep they are advised to count sheep. Could looking at them have the same effect?

Answer 1

I live in the bush or the outback of Australia, and I have sometimes had to stop my car on a dirt track somewhere and wait for up to an hour as the "Cocky"or farmer herds his sheep from one paddock to another...
I have had occasion to fall asleep while waiting for him to get all his sheep into the new grazing paddock...
Blessed Be... )O(

Answer 2

I dont think that it would work, unless a human being was hypnotized, just because the only thing counting sheep does is induce bordum..

In most depictions of the activity, the practitioner envisions an endless series of identical white sheep jumping over a fence, while counting the number that do so. The idea, presumably, is to induce boredom while occupying the mind with something simple, repetitive, and rhythmic, all of which are known to help humans sleep.

Although the practice is largely a stereotype, and rarely used as a solution for insomnia, it has been so commonly referenced by cartoons, comic strips, and other mass media, that it has become deeply engrained into popular culture's notion of sleep. The term "counting sheep" has entered the English language as an idiomatic term for insomnia. Sheep themselves have become associated with sleep, or lack thereof. For example, an ad campaign of the Serta mattress company features the Serta Counting Sheep, a flock of animated sheep who resent the said company's mattresses for supposedly rendering their services unnecessary.

According to an experiment conducted by researchers at Oxford University, counting sheep is actually an inferior means of inducing sleep. Subjects who instead imagined "a beach or a waterfall" were forced to expend more mental energy, and fell asleep faster than those asked to simply count sheep. Sleep, by the same token, could be achieved by any number of complex activities that expend mental energy

Answer 3

Herding stress stems from the wild wolves preliminary stalking and chasing of prey. whilst canines are first delivered to inventory (sheep,cows) they're TAUGHT to no longer actually grip or kill the animal, yet to restrain themselves....subsequently bringing out the organic herding potential. some canines seem to have extra instinct then others do, alot of which could rely on breeding lines. risk-free practices stress is distinctive. instruct a Doberman Pinscher sheep, and that they might in all probability stroll away, chase to play, or chase to kill and thats it. it may be alot harder to hold out a "herding" instinct. risk-free practices although is organic in ALL breeds, some breeds are purely extra bodily intimidating. A Rottweiller looks plenty extra protecting then a yappy toy poodle on the door. i do no longer think of risk-free practices stress could desire to be seen an instinct...perhaps in straightforward terms a trait of canines derived from wolves looking out for their %.. The herding team of canines is seen the main clever team frequently via fact of their herding instinct and ought to artwork and please their grasp. so some distance as no longer neutering consistent with stress....i think of thats a fantasy. i've got seen many altered canines do purely besides at herding or risk-free practices artwork as altered ones. Even Police canines are fastened, right here in Canada a minimum of.

Answer 4

I was caught in the middle of a large flock on a bicycle. That would not be a good place to get sleepy.

Answer 5

LOL, I have no idea because I don't count, or look at sheep.

Answer 6

That happened to me once, but I didn't get sleepy. I got really horny.

Answer 7

No, just hungry.

Answer 8

no but i heard about it