Restorative Sleep Improves Memory and Creativity
Johah Lehrer has written a terrific summary pointing to what we gain and what we lose when we don’t get enough sleep. Watching his wife sleep comfortably and soundly, while he lies awake with insomnia, Lehrer reviews the literature, touching on how the brain replays our own experiences over and over again, sketching them deeply into the neural networks of our brains. This cements our long term memories. Lehrer also points out that REM sleep helps make us more creative and lets us integrate new information into our problem solving.
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Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine. He’s the author of “How We Decide” and “Proust Was A Neuroscientist” and blogs at The Frontal Cortex.
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