Andrew Huberman· PhD
and it's known that these spindles are important for consolidating experiences you've had during the day into your long-term memory storage
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and it's known that these spindles are important for consolidating experiences you've had during the day into your long-term memory storage
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in fact if you look at those sleep spindles they exponentially increase towards the end of the night so you get most of your sleep spindle rich sleep in the last two hours of the night the reason that's important is because you not only need sleep after learning to consolidate to save those memories you also need sleep before learning to get your brain ready in preparation to actually lay down new memories and they're it's stage two non REM sleep and these spindles
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