During sleep, your brain replays patterns of electrical activity that may assist the formation of long-term memories
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Listening to an audiobook before bed affects a person’s brain activity after they nod off and the content of their dreams. Better understanding this could lead to therapies that help to treat certain mental health conditions by targeting memory processing during sleep.
While a person sleeps, their brain spontaneously “replays”, or reactivates, patterns of electrical activity that are related to learning, to transfer important new information to long-term memory storage. It has been …
