Your Brain Memorizes When You Sleep

Sleep plays a crucial role in memory consolidation, the process by which short-term memories are transformed into long-term ones. During sleep, particularly in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and slow-wave (deep) sleep, the brain processes and stabilizes the information encountered during the day.
This consolidation process is selective, prioritizing emotional and significant experiences for enhanced retention. Additionally, sleep facilitates synaptic pruning, where unnecessary neural connections are eliminated to make room for new learning and memory formation, ensuring brain efficiency.
During slow-wave sleep, the brain replays the day's experiences, reinforcing the neural connections associated with these memories. Sleep also allows for the integration of new information with existing knowledge, helping to make connections and enhance overall understanding and recall.
By minimizing interference from other stimuli, sleep provides an optimal environment for memory processing without the distractions of wakefulness. REM sleep, in particular, is linked to creativity and problem-solving, as the brain reorganizes information, leading to insights and novel solutions.
Overall, adequate and quality sleep is essential for effective memory formation, retention, and retrieval, while lack of sleep or poor sleep quality can significantly impair these processes, resulting in difficulties in learning and memory.

[@deceptOG]

Adds up. I always did well in school with bare minimum effort, probavly cus where i live was boring asf couldnt even get wifi, but id come home and immediately sleep till the next morning multiple days a week.😂

[@Brainathlete]

Makes sense