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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2834" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sleep-to-solve-a-problem-202105242463" target="_blank"><strong>Sleep to solve a problem - Harvard</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Sleep on it. Things will look better in the morning."</p><p> </p><p>This advice, often given by a parent, is said with love and good intentions, but it still makes us roll our eyes, because we just want to go to sleep — not think, not assess options. We certainly don’t want to wait until tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>But …?</p><p></p><p>"We all do that," says Dr. Robert Stickgold, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School<em>.</em> "We solve problems while we’re asleep."</p><p></p><p>More importantly: we’re supposed to. The brain is <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sleep-well-and-reduce-your-risk-of-dementia-and-death-2021050322508" target="_blank">doing its nighttime job of finding connections</a>, so when we wake up, we have a different take. It can feel like a stress, but rather than fight it, there are ways to accept the nightly review of the day so it doesn’t turn into a sleepless assessment of our entire lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2834, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sleep-to-solve-a-problem-202105242463'][B]Sleep to solve a problem - Harvard[/B][/URL] Sleep on it. Things will look better in the morning." This advice, often given by a parent, is said with love and good intentions, but it still makes us roll our eyes, because we just want to go to sleep — not think, not assess options. We certainly don’t want to wait until tomorrow. But …? "We all do that," says Dr. Robert Stickgold, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School[I].[/I] "We solve problems while we’re asleep." More importantly: we’re supposed to. The brain is [URL='https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sleep-well-and-reduce-your-risk-of-dementia-and-death-2021050322508']doing its nighttime job of finding connections[/URL], so when we wake up, we have a different take. It can feel like a stress, but rather than fight it, there are ways to accept the nightly review of the day so it doesn’t turn into a sleepless assessment of our entire lives. [/QUOTE]
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