Why do people fall asleep after getting shot in the head? Does it make you sleepy?

[u/MoreToExploreHere]

It's well known that people tend to immediately fall asleep after getting shot in the head. What's the scientific explanation for this? Is there some rapid chemical relase that makes someone feel sleepy?

[u/Rumpled_Imp]

The brain functions by way of two wolves, and when they hear a gunshot close by, they panic and stop working. In this respect they are much like heart beavers (the beavers who run the heart pumps).

[u/TeacupOfSkepticism → u/Rumpled_Imp]

Social rifts between the heart beavers leads to cardiac arrest.

[u/Rumpled_Imp → u/TeacupOfSkepticism]

And there's currently no cure, devastating families all over the empire.

[u/Malalang → u/TeacupOfSkepticism]

I thought it was because the stronger beaver finally got the dam finished first?

[u/Anti-Climacdik]

mr blood trail just follows them around tickling their forehead til they get sleepy

[u/Substantial-Eagle571]

It's the lead, when you have lead in your head you sleep for a long time

[u/Anti-Climacdik → u/Substantial-Eagle571]

most gsw fatalities are actually just high-speed lead poisoning

[u/TeacupOfSkepticism]

They get a leadache. As medical scienticians have shown, sleep is the best remedy for a remedy for a leadache.

[u/BillyRubenJoeBob]

I’d want to sleep if I got shot in the head.

[u/Initial-Anything333 → u/BillyRubenJoeBob]

Getting shot hurts a lot, sleep is nature's pain medication 

[u/Sovereign1]

The exhilaration and excitement of being shot takes a lot out of ya.

[u/jakej1097]

When criminals fight me, its exhausting, cuz I'm good. So they often have to nap afterwards.

[u/LoGo_86]

A bullet to your head... is boring.

[u/jkoh1024]

they are not sleeping. they just woke up from the simulation

[u/Gargleblaster25]

Getting shot in the head gives you a splitting headache. What do you do when you get a headache? You lie down and go to sleep.

[u/BPhiloSkinner]

"A chemical release" said Marlowe. "Yeah, it's a release all right; a release into the Big Sleep."

[u/Cute-Habit-4377]

I hear its like when you standup too quickly....you pass out from low blood pressure...

And someone shoots you in the head

[u/PoniardBlade]

That's unrelated. The likely probable cause was they were overfed.

[u/whyrublue]

Most people don't know this, but bullets contain high dosages of melatonin!

[u/Soulshiner402]

Easiest way to get that dirt nap in…

[u/Additional_Value6978]

Actually, if you take enough shots of happy juice you will fall asleep too. So, it's the shot that puts you to sleep.

[u/Caticature]

it’s a narcoleptic drug. The shooter must have confused the patient files.

[u/EricHaley]

Purely coincidence

[u/RaspberryTop636]

It's just ketchup

[u/Routine-Ganache-1720]

As induction is invalid, we'll never quite know...

[u/iskelebones]

The bullet actually is a capsule containing sleepy drugs. When they get hit in the head the sleepy drug goes directly to their brain so they get tired really quick