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Is there a specific term for this subconscious phenomenon? I believe I have experienced this multiple times, but I remember one event in particular when I coul

• 1270018080 4y ago
  Or when I am trying to memorize a speech. I don't have it memorized when I go to bed, and I have it memorized when I wake up.
• rhplus 4y ago
  “Sleeping on it” probably gives the brain time for “spreading activation“, which is a model that describes how relationships between concepts are explored and formed. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-012-0256-7 https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-012-0256-7 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/spreading-activation https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/spread...
• justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > I slept in frustration Human brain runs a defrag process (quite literally) when the body sleeps. Not only this removes the cruft from the day but also rearranges and makes links for the knowledge gathered through the day.
  • hn_go_brrrrr 4y ago
    Is glymphatic cleaning related to knowledge retention?
    • justsomehnguy 4y ago
      It's more like they go hand in hand. I wouldn't say what it depends on it, but without it it would much harder to retain and structure new information. It is commonly observed in a long hours jobs and tests what after some time the new info just doesn't get processed properly.
• sanatgersappa 4y ago
  Rich Hickey has a nice name for it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
• Vetch 4y ago
  Perhaps the Eureka effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect)?