29; the last thing I learned was the importance of sleep, which I've heard about before but never really internalised until now. One of the coolest parts of thi

29; the last thing I learned was the importance of sleep, which I've heard about before but never really internalised until now. One of the coolest parts of this that I learned is how in certain stages of sleep you get this stuff called "sleep spindles", the activity of which is associated with memories from your short term memory buffer in the hippocampus being relocated to your long term memory in the cortex. This sleep spindle activity can be measured in pulses in your brain during this stage of sleep, pulsing between the hippocampus and the coretex at a rate of 100-200ms. Upon waking you are left with longer term recall of what you had learned pre-sleep, plus your short term memory buffer in the hippocampus is now free to learn new stuff. Our brain is so exciting!