Your Brain on Sleep

by Zoe Pollock

The Oxford University Press blog continues to delve into sleep and the unconscious with Dr. Rosalind Cartwright who says:

The unconscious only comes up into the surface during our waking hours if we daydream and let our mind wander freely. In sleep the unconscious selects new experiences to save in memory, particularly new experiences that have an emotional charge. If you worked hard to learn something new you will remember it better after a period of sleep than if you stay...