Sleep! It helps you learn!

'“The study demonstrates that sleep restores performance and makes learning robust against interference encountered after sleep. This process is critical to the formation and stability of long-term memories,” Nusbaum said.'
The study about which the article speaks is about sleep in starlings helping them form memories and learn better. However, the article seems to think that studying the starling ability helps us understand our own ability. Thus the idea that humans learn better when they include sleep to help consolidate their memories of what they learned. All night cramming will not help you for a test, learning some during the day and then sleeping with help you more. Granted, if you have no time to learn anything, sleeping may not help as much as if you had, but being awake during the test after being up all night won't help you either. Anyway, as you can tell, I am biased towards getting good sleep everyday in order to retain what I have learned and being able to work with that knowledge the next day. A good sleep always seems to make a day better! Emphasis not really needed on the good adjective in that sentence. Bad sleep doesn't help that much. Sleep! Rest! Enjoy your daily death practice! (Such a good Lenten consideration. Think about it. Sadly we go to sleep much more willingly than death but they are similar in nature.)