Truthfully, we don’t know. Sleep remains something of a mystery requirement for us.
There a few hypotheses out there – be it sleep allows the brain to sort things out from short- to long-term storage, discard stuff it doesn’t think it needs, gives the chance to form the neural connections that create those memories…but it is all hypothesis.
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Sleeping washes away all the junk in your brain.
In messy house not only does it take up space it makes it harder to find what you are looking for
Truthfully, we don’t know. Sleep remains something of a mystery requirement for us.
There a few hypotheses out there – be it sleep allows the brain to sort things out from short- to long-term storage, discard stuff it doesn’t think it needs, gives the chance to form the neural connections that create those memories…but it is all hypothesis.