"There's an obvious paradox here: stimulating the neurons causes the animals to sleep, and yet the neurons are normally active during the day," says Altermatt.

Not necessarily a paradox.

Except that’s quite literally what a paradox is (from Google):

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

It just means sleep requires neurons to be active that are also activated during wakefulness.

You seemingly inadvertently refuted your initial inaccurate claim, that the quoted information is not a paradox, by haphazardly and, again, inadvertently proving that it is, in fact, a paradox.

You guys need to take another look at Freud's models. Narcissistic processes. Wish fulfillment.

Which leads me to the second definition of paradox (from Google):

a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.

And the definition of conflate (from Google):

combine (two or more texts, ideas, etc.) into one.

To ultimately conclude with the false analogy fallacy (Source. :

An analogy proposes that two concepts which are similar (A and B) have a common relationship to some property. A has property X, therefore B must also have property X. In a false analogy, the objects may have some similarities, but they do not both have property X. That way, both objects may have the same color, but this does not mean that they have the same size.[1] Even if bananas and the sun appear yellow, one could not conclude that they are the same size. One who makes an invalid analogy or comparison is often said to be "comparing apples and oranges".

This concludes today’s episode of Vanessa ‘splains logic, reasoning, and critical thinking to an easy target on the Net. Tune in tomorrow for ‘Ennui Most Foul’.