Sleep Boosts Learning Capabilities

 According to a new study provides some evidence for supporting the  notions that sleep and dreams boost learning. Scientists say that sleep and dreaming  helps people to make sense of the real world during the day. NBCnews. com says, “even naps can help, the researchers foun.  Volunteers or test subjects who dreamt about a challenging task during the study, ended up performing it better than those who didn’t have such dreams. This new chain between dreaming and learning gives insight into “why humans bother to sleep at all.” The study is thought to be the first to show “the relationship between dreaming and function in the outside world,” said senior researcher Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School.

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