maybe Dean and Sam make stupid bomb ass decisions because they’re so fucking exhausted all the time. they are literally in 3 a.m. mood 24/7. all their decisions are made with the same amount of sleep I got when I fell apart in the middle of my school campus laughing about that goddamned Moshi Moshi Jesus Desu meme. they have been shitposting irl for the past 10 years.
so maybe, all Dean and Sam need is one good 8 hours of sleep. “I need my 4 hours” no, Dean, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, you need 7~8 hours of sleep per day (National Institutes of Health, 2011). will someone please show these two to a bed, and no, Sam, you can’t have your gun under your pillow. the guide says a GOOD night of sleep, not a night of jolting awake every 20 minutes to check if your brother is still suffering from nightmares.
this theory amuses me because imagine if they suddenly just started sleeping through the night. 8 hours every single day. they figure out how to take down the darkness and rowena in a week. cas and dean get together the week after. sam finishes law school online while they ride around in the car. co-dependency is over for good. all because they suddenly start SLEEPING
yeah??? that’s exactly my point??? with enough amount of sleep you can do anything your heart desires, my friend. you wanna get into Stanford? 8 hours of sleep. you wanna start dealing with your emotions properly and start thinking that maybe loving your best friend that way isn’t such an impossible thing to happen? 8 hours of sleep.
thinking that maybe regaining your own agency in a lifelong relationship that you’ve shared with a family member, which you’ve both been taught was the right thing to do from both people you care about and that family member themselves, is something well within your right to ask for? Not blaming your family member for wanting their own agency in their lives, and recognizing that technically you both know the cycle is killing everyone you care about, yourselves included, around you because you’re both too afraid to stop this relationship that’s been like a merry-go-around out of control like that one in Christmas Town from Kingdom Hearts II and admitting that you literally don’t know a way that isn’t this one but you want to start figuring that out? god damn lie down on a bed and sleep for a good 8 hours so you have better cognitive abilities to even start making decisions about these things.
everything feels so much more dramatic with less hours of sleep. you ever been not cranky after getting less than 5 hours of sleep? most would say no, they were cranky as fuck and dealing with shit was probably nightmarish. d’you know that not sleeping for 17~19 hours causes 0.05% of blood alcohol concentration? 50% slower response rate after not sleeping for that long (Williamson and Feyer, 2000). instead of trying to send Dean to space, maybe Death should’ve made Dean lie down on a couch and sleep until Sam got there, and put Sam to sleep right beside Dean too.
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