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How Sleep Enables You To Learn, And How Does This Exactly Work?
How inactive, lazy sleep helps you to learn better
Sleep better, learn better!
Non-REM, REM, Stage 1,2,3..
Which one is better for learning?
The answer is quite simple, every aspect of your sleep cycle is important. Strange, isn’t it? NOT.
“All Sleep stages work together as a learning booster..”
Non-REM sleep boosts the performance of newly acquired skills. This by restoring flexibility and neuroplasticity. At the same time, REM sleep stabilizes these improvements and prevents new learning from erasing them.
It’s all about balance and regulatory mechanisms. Like in a way your whole life is. Sleep should strengthen the synapses and the neural connections created during the day to solidify the new knowledge you’ve learned. It should prevent it from being overwritten by any other new information.
Downscaling function relaxes or weakens the synapses to preserve their flexibility. The brain’s neuroplasticity could be seen as out-balancing. Masako Tamaki found that neuroplasticity increases during non-REM sleep. This had associations with better learning and task performances after sleep.
