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Matthew Walker

“Not only does sleep maintain those memories you have successfully learned before bed (“the vision that was planted in my brain / Still remains”), but it will even salvage those that appeared to have been lost soon after learning. In other words, following a night of sleep you regain access to memories that you could not retrieve before sleep. Like a computer hard drive where some files have become corrupted and inaccessible, sleep offers a recovery service at night. Having repaired those memory items, rescuing them from the clutches of forgetting, you awake the next morning able to locate and retrieve those once unavailable memory files with ease and precision.”

Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
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Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
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