Your brain might be trying to predict the future when you sleep
A new study on sleep and learning shows a new development about the brain's activity at rest. Some of the neurons in the brain might be firing off during sleep in a way that convinced researchers the brain might be trying to predict the future.
The new research from Rice University and the University of Michigan builds on existing studies that show sleep is important for learning, as it helps create new memories.
It's unclear whether the activity the researchers observed is actually responsible for dreaming. That would mean that some of our dreams are trying to predict the future. But I will say that I think I experienced this newly discovered brain feature when I was much younger.
I would routinely wake up during the night with solutions to some of the more challenging math problems for school. I'd wake up and write it up. That's how excited I'd be about finding the correct answer. The brain was probably working overtime while I was sleeping. It must have been dreaming that I could solve the puzzle that seemed too difficult just mere hours earlier. It happened with video games later in life.
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