When you are sleep deprived, your level of alertness and concentration decreases and the processing of your thoughts slows down. This makes it harder to concentrate, which makes you confused; it is more difficult for you to gather information and learning would not be as effective. This hinders your ability to complete tasks that involve logical reasoning. For you to remember something, it has to be in your long-term memory, but for it to go into your long-term memory, it has to be in your long-term memory first. your short-term memory. Sleep inserts the things learned during the day into the short term memory and if you continue to go through that particular memory and improve it, then it will be transferred to the long term memory. Sleep greatly helps with learning. When you sleep, the brain categorizes the day's memories into different sections. It moves memories to more efficient storage regions of the brain at different times of the night. There are 5 stages of sleep and each is specialized to process specific types of information. This is why it is important to get enough sleep, because the more the sleep cycle can repeat, the more information the brain will process, therefore the more things you will be able to remember. is REM sleep (rapid eye movements). REM is important for learning and memory preservation. During REM sleep, the brain processes information learned during the day, consolidates connections between brain cells and between different regions of the brain that create our memories, and replenishes its stock of neurotransmitters, which also includes chemicals that make you feel good and improve your mood. the rest of the day. Sleep 30 minutes to an hour more in the morning...... middle of paper......memories and choose what to remember and what not to keep. Some memories are also reinforced. It has been shown that certain memories, such as playing a melody on a musical instrument, can improve during sleep. Memories are more stable during phases of deep sleep. After that, during REM sleep, the brain links related memories together. This is why, in order to learn as much as possible during a day, it is important to sleep well the day before and the night after. Unfortunately, deep sleep strengthens memory. stages deteriorate in the late 30s. People aged over 60 had a 70% loss of deep sleep compared to people in their 20s. This is why older people tend to forget things more easily. The best way to remember something new that you have learned is to sleep on it. For what? Because sleeping helps strengthen memories and also connects new memories to those you already have..