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As we snooze, our brain is busily processing the information we have learned during the day.
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Sleep makes memories stronger, and it even appears to weed out irrelevant details and background information so that only the important pieces remain.
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Our brain also works during slumber to find hidden relations among memories and to solve problems we were working on while awake.
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In 1865 Friedrich August Kekulé woke up from a strange dream: he imagined a snake forming a circle and biting its own tail. Like many organic chemists of the time, Kekulé had been working feverishly to describe the true chemical structure of benzene, a problem that continually eluded understanding. But Kekulé’s dream of a snake swallowing its tail, so the story goes, helped him to accurately realize that benzene’s structure formed a ring. This insight paved the way for a new understanding of organic chemistry and earned Kekulé a title of nobility in Germany.
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German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus had evidence in 1885 that sleep protects simple memories from decay
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