Sleep on It: Brain Activity Patterns During Sleep Help Memory, Learning
Sleeping on it actually DOES work in many cases, helping our brains sort through what we’ve learned that day and making sense of it while we snooze.
Why does sleeping on it help? This is the question tackled by new research at the University of Bristol, which reveals how brain activity during sleep sorts through the huge number of experiences we encounter every day, filing only the important information in memory.