The Cognitive Effects of Games

A few years ago I was playing this independent video game braid for the first time. And it's a kind of like puzzle solving platformer game. And some of the puzzles are quite intricate in terms of spatial relations. And I remember, you know, being up, not being able to solve a puzzle for like 20 minutes and then giving up in frustration and going to bed. The next morning I wake up before I've had my coffee, before I've woken up, I go straight to the laptop, I go the same puzzle, and I solve it in 30 seconds. What happened there? There was like some form of unconscious processing that happened overnight that literally produced the solution to