While we lay our head on the pillow and become lost in thought, we suddenly wake up in the morning. How is that possible in a way we don’t realize can this happen?

This transition phase lived so softly we can’t notice those little phases. We actually experience a kind of “amnesia” just before we get carried away. Okay, but why?

While we are falling asleep, we do not suddenly fall into a deep sleep. Because sleeping is a process, not instantaneous.

Just before we fall asleep – as you know – our attention level starts to drop significantly. We are less aware of what is happening around us, we hardly react to low sounds. So in these moments we can’t encode new memories very well, because we can’t pay enough attention to the environment.

Our brains don’t like to make the attention process work too hard just before we fall asleep. Even if you hear your loved one talking next to you in these moments, your brain will no need to save. For this reason, when you wake up in the morning, you can even take a trip from your loved one.

The frontal lobe, the front part of our brain, is the first to fall asleep.

The frontal lobe, the center of our consciousness prefrontal cortex are also available. Because consciousness is not actively active when we fall asleep, memories are not transferred to our memory – because communication between neurons is stopped.

In order for new memories to last longer than a few minutes, they must be transferred from short-term storage to long-term storage in the brain.

This process is called consolidation. Studies have shown that the sentences said to a person while falling asleep cannot remember what was said when that person woke up. In other words, the process of falling asleep closes the door of the consolidation process. When this door is closed, new memories are not stored for a short time. to long-term storage cannot be transferred.

Studying sleepily before bedtime is therefore not productive.

You are more likely to forget what you have read and remembered. In fact, when you pick up the book the next day, it’s like those pages It may be like you’ve never read it. That’s why it’s never a good idea to study all night for final exams. Now that you know the reason for this situation, you can sleep peacefully.

Sources: Nature, Morris Psych