Andrew Huberman· PhD
sleep before learning is going to help you acquire and imprint new memories very effectively
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sleep before learning is going to help you acquire and imprint new memories very effectively
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I think I've conceptualized it in three different stages or three different buckets of a benefit the first is that we need sleep before learning to prepare your brain to initially imprint and lay those memory traces down but then you need to sleep after learning to take those sort of freshly minted memories and then save them and cement them into the brain so that you don't lose them the third domain is that sleep will then take those new memories that you've been learning and it will start to collide them with all of this back catalog of information that you've already got stored in your brain and it updates the iOS of your informational systems so that then you come back the next day and you have a better abled ability to understand how the world Works in other words the difference between knowledge which is learning the facts and wisdom which is knowing what it all means when you put it together that's the third category and why is that beneficial because it provides you with creative insights
it's not just about sleep before learning you then have to sleep after learning to do exactly what you just described
in an Ideal World I get excellent night sleep for the you know every day of my life leading up to about of learning being Expo
if you sleep before you learn something as in sleeping enough before a day of studying before an exam you are going to enhance your ability to learn that information if you sleep after you're going to integrate it and remember it better
First, you need sleep before learning to actually get your brain ready to initially soak up new information, to initially lay down new memory traces.
So sleep before learning to get your brain ready, to acquire information.
So you can't cheat sleep on either side of the memory equation.
But you also then need to sleep after learning to take those freshly-minted memories in the brain, particularly in a region that we call the hippocampus, which you could think of almost like the informational inbox of your brain, but it's very good at receiving those sort of new memory files. But you need sleep after learning to take those new memories and then essentially hit the save button on them so that you don't forget those informational pieces of the puzzle.