Sleeping on a problem really can solve it, claim scientists

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Sleeping on a problem really can solve it, claim scientists

Sleeping on a problem really can help solve it, claim scientists who discovered a nap can improve your powers of creativity.

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Telegraph.co.uk | 08 Jun 2009

Researchers found that people were able to think
more laterally and quickly after a snooze

Researchers found that people were able to think more laterally and quickly after a snooze and that if they dreamed the ability was even more enhanced.
The scientists believe that "incubating" a problem often leads to a solution but that the effect was increased when people entered a phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM).

They believe that REM- which occurs most predominantly just before we awake – helps the brain make connections between unrelated subjects.
REM sleep they concluded was "important for assimilating new information into past experience" to come up with solutions to creative problems.

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