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Your Mind is still Awake When you Sleep?
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung November 18th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Education, Sleep Issues.
Logically, we believe that our minds rest while we are sleeping. However, based on some studies from the United States, our brains work while we are snoozing, storing the various events that took part in the day and registering them in our minds thus strengthening our memory.
If you look at it, it is like downloading videos from you video camera. All the events that have transpired are replayed and stored, making your memory storage entirely wider. This is perhaps one reason why sleeping is a good time to rest for the body but not the brain. It still functions without our knowledge and it does some things we least expect.
Researchers in the United States have carried out a study and found while you sleep, your brain remains busy in strengthening the memories of what you did during the day and it does it in quick spurts, as if your day was being replayed in fast-forward.
“The brain’s medial prefrontal cortex replays daytime activities during sleep six to seven times faster than real time,” the WebMD reported, quoting lead researcher Dr David Euston was quoted as saying.
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