The brain does garbage collection when you sleep. Probably it does an even wider reorganization when you leave some neural circuits unused for some time. Perso

The brain does garbage collection when you sleep. Probably it does an even wider reorganization when you leave some neural circuits unused for some time. Personally, with gaming, I had some improvements coming from restarting a habit but psychologically it is harder to suck more at something and working to get to your former performance. I have seen it in a lot of gamers. They get gud, for some reason they grow tired and leave, they return, they wonder at how out of shape they are, they play a while and leave again when they realize how much they have to work to get to top tier. Ofc I am not referring to games based on the amount of time and money you waste on them, but skill based old school FPS shooters.