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Jigglypuff's song is seen to be extremely effective in putting people and
Pokemon to sleep, but how does it not fall asleep from its own singing?

Shouldn't it at least fall asleep after it's done?

![Let's get Jiggly with it~](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gmCPg.jpg)


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How does Jigglypuff not fall asleep from its own song?


At first: As kuwaly mentioned, normally no one falls asleep while singing a
lullaby. That's most likely the reason, but there are other possible points:

  * Like in the game, Pokémon using Sing aren't affected by the attack. This was most likely done to make this move usable, and was copied in the anime so the viewers aren't confused.
  * Some of the Pokédex-entries suggest, that you need to look in the eyes of Jigglypuff to be affected. As a Jigglypuff can't look itself in the eyes, it can't fall asleep. You can read the entries [on Bulbapedia](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jigglypuff_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29#Pok.C3.A9dex_entries_2).

I also think I remember other Jigglypuffs falling asleep, too, but I'm not
sure. That would mean, that Jigglypuffs aren't immune to the singing, but just
aren't affected by their own attack.


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What I think is that Jigglypuff can't hear itself when it sings. To whoever
said you needed to look into its eyes, the Neon City episode in the anime had
people falling asleep when they weren't looking into Jigglypuff's eyes. Maybe
all Jigglypuff have different songs and ears, so the user of the song can't
hear itself sing.


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Perhaps when Jigglypuff sings, the direction and application of it's voice are
ONLY directed towards everywhere but itself. I don't think it can't hear
itself sing, because in every 1st gen episode it was in, it got mad that
everyone fell asleep during its song. If it didn't think it could sing, or
couldn't hear it, why would it be so mad? Also, in every 1st gen episode it
appears in, it has a microphone that doubles as a marker. You can hear the
reverberation of its voice in the Neon City episode, where it used
loudspeakers, as well as in every other instance of it singing **without**
loudspeakers. (except that one episode where it was quietly singing to itself
as it walked down a road, and even then, **if it couldn't hear itself sing,
why would it continue singing?** ) In conclusion, if every time it
deliberately sung for an audience, (and not for itself) it put a
(hypothetical) sleep frequency in the music that was directed and amplified
outward from itself, it would never hear that frequency, thus not falling
asleep, but is able to hear its own song.


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Actually the reason jigglypuff is not sleeping hint hint hint hint is that it
sing to everyone around herself and when she is singing is because that she
knows not to sleep when she is singing so she can know what to say next.


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This can be answered well with typical concepts of biology. While no species
(to the best of my knowledge) is known that can send other individuals to
sleep by singing, practically every species produces some kind of natural
products that are fatal or unpleasant to others.

Consider, for example,
[tetrodotoxin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin) known as the
poisonous ingredient of pufferfish or _fugu._ Tetrodotoxin acts by inhibiting
nervous sodium channels and thereby inhibits nerve signal transfer. This
should affect all higher vertebrates that rely on nervous signaling. It is not
produced by the fish itself but by numerous bacterial symbiontic species. They
are not the only species to use this toxin as a defence mechanism; among
others, so does the [rough-skinned newt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough-
skinned_newt).

Naturally, it is interesting that all species harbouring these bacteria seem
immune to tetrodotoxin. However, even more interesting is the fact that the
[common garter snake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_garter_snake), a
natural predator of the rough-skinned newt, has also developped some immunity.
This could be traced back to a modification of said sodium channels that
render them immune against tetrodotoxin.

A similar mechanism could and should be acting with respect to jigglypuff’s
song. Potentially, one could assume that singing was either a method of self-
defence (a sleeping predator cannot attack jigglypuff) or an attack method (a
sleeping victim cannot run away). In any case, if jigglypuff were able to sing
itself to sleep, that would be evolutionarily very unfavourable since it would
present an easy target. Therefore, evolution probably selected those
jigglypuffs who were able to withstand their own singing (and possibly also
those, who enjoyed other jigglypuffs’ singing). This gave them an advantage in
survival.

The exact mechanism by which jigglypuffs’ singing does not sing themselves to
sleep would have to be researched by pokémon researchers in the pokéworld.
However, I present the hypothesis that their nervous system reacts to the
stimuli in a different way than other animals, humans and pokémon, possibly
due to a different, yet to be discovered signalling molecule mutation.


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Status Condition Moves, like:

Hypnosis and Sing

For example, are primarily used to put Other Pokemon to sleep. They have no
effect on the Pokemon performing the move(s). Therefore, whenever Jigglypuff
is singing, Humans or Pokemon fall asleep. Her singing is primarily a "Status
Condition" Move and that's it. If it was meant to be listened to, Humans and
Pokemon would be wearing earplugs, so they don't fall asleep. It's even
funnier when she stops singing, realizes that everyone's asleep, gets mad and
draws on their faces with her microphone/marker.


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Actually, Jigglypuff does fall asleep from her own lullaby in [this
clip](https://youtu.be/gQmT56hvDQs?t=115).


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