Many competing theories have been made to discover the possible connections between sleep and learning in humans. One theory is that sleep consolidates and optimizes the layout of memories, though recent evidence suggests this may be restricted to implicit procedural memories.
Read more about Sleep And Learning: Increased Learning, Electrophysiological Evidence in Rats, Sleep in Relation To School, Other Theories
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“O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping,
That were athirst for sleep and no more life
And no more love, for peace and no more strife!”
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In that sweet sleep no power can ever banish,
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“Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 26:24.
Said by Festus, the Roman Procurator.