Sleep Preparing Your Brain for the Next Day

Sleep has this dual function that sleep, the night before both it prepares your brain the next day to acquire new information by clearing out the short term reservoir. But it also has the second benefit of storing the information that we learned yesterday, because you're now moving it to the long term hard drive within the brain so that you don't forget. So sleep is both future proofing that information within your brain by shifting it to thelong term memory stores,. but it's also freeing up resources for the next day so that you can start learning all over again. We've deprived people, and you can see there's almost a forty % deficit in your ability to learn new memories when you haven't