Dr. Matt Walker

And so you are far less likely to lose those memories, which is to say you are far less likely to forget if you've been sleeping after you've learned.

It's not just that though.

Sleep does more than simply strengthen those individual memories.

Sleep will start to cross link and connect those memories together.

And as a consequence, the next day you will wake up and that memory back catalog has now been updated with all of the recent information

and it's integrated and it's associated.

So you are now able to come up with new creative solutions to issues or problems that you've been facing because you've updated what we call the associative networks in your brain.

And this is the reason that people will describe having had these insights by way of sleep and these problem-solving capacities.

And really that's what, to me,

A good student is not simply a student who can learn all of the individual rote facts and then just regurgitate them.

An individual memory sitting as an isolate island is not particularly useful.

That's why your laptop isn't, well, as long as it's not connected to the internet now and open AI, it's not particularly intelligent.

I mean, it has a storage capacity that is almost more perfect than your brain.

It doesn't make some of the memory sort of mistakes that we do.

The reason it's not as intelligent as we are in part is because it has not integrated the information.

It doesn't link all of that.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you woke up one day and you'd installed a program on your computer

And your computer just understood how all of the files were interrelated and connected.

And it was saying, okay, you've double-clicked on this file.

Well, now I'm going to tell you that there is this related information.