obvious things vs the things i really want to know

do you ever feel that scientists are paid to investigate some pretty obvious things and that society as a whole is interested in very uninteresting things?

i want to know about how human language got invented. not any specific language, but the concept of language itself.

and how, if the language families don't have a common origin, where and when each language family began

i think reality is quite different than what we imagine. i don't even mean the "ultimate" reality -- i mean the reality that some experts have already found out. the questions i'm asking about human language have likely been answered and the answers are likely different than how we've been picturing the way things are.

but you know what's kind of actually pretty obvious?
that we need sleep to function well.
people keep talking about the obvious things.

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i feel that it's fun to have questions you really want to get answers to

lately i find questions about history deeply fascinating but not like wars and stuff. i want to know the history of THINGS like language and books and molecules. like why did the molecule of DMT get synthesized some billion years ago and why do plants need it? like what for? why does it make us feel all whacky? and yet we release it when we dream and i guess dreams are whacky but what happens to DMT when we lucid dream?

sometimes i feel so trapped because i want to know how it feels to have non-human senses. i can't even imagine.

imagination is so limited.