Sleep. Learning. Memory.

Sleep is most effective tool for our physiological health but it’s also critical for learning and memory. Here’s a few things you may not have known:

1. Sleep is a pre-req for learning and memory. Sleep deprivation taxes your hippocampus to a degree that it makes learning new things very difficult.

2. Sleep after novel information and the making of memories is, in a way, like hitting the ‘save’ button in your brain, cementing memories and moving them into long term storage. The access and availability is faster and more readily available when good, quality sleep is followed by the exposure of new knowledge.

3. Sleep intelligently connects old knowledge with new knowledge. These new schemas are yoked and assimilated into your current knowledge base and it’s purported that sometimes clarity and insight is found after taking a break from the grind and ‘sleeping on it’.