How We Create Meaning

According to recent studies on dreaming, workshops with an overnight component help participants to retain what they learn. “Let them sleep in between and their performance improves – literally overnight. The implication seems obvious: Sleep provides practice.... [The researcher] points for example, to the ability of sleep to allow us to integrate and consolidate knowledge. During sleep, our brains are making sense of the world, discovering new associations among existing memories, looking for patterns, formulating rules. ‘That’s how we create meaning.’” Psychology Today, 2007-12-19.