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Memories Are Made Like This

  By Tom Siegfried
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Perhaps, as Homer wrote in The Iliad, sleep is the twin of death. But to many modern neurobiologists, sleep is more like the mother of memory.

Sleep provides downtime for processing the previous day's events. Free from the rush of messages bombarding the waking senses, the brain can converse with itself. Just as your computer warns you to close all running programs before installing a new one, the brain closes your eyes each night to install memories from the day before, numerous researchers believe.

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