Why do we sometimes wake up, say a bunch of random/nonsense stuff, and don’t remember it?
In: Biology
Well, lots of reasons… But a main one is the way memories are formed.
Also, try to remember the first sentence you said at school or work this morning. Probably can’t can you?
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A lot of the science behind why we do some of the stuff we do when we sleep isn’t well understood.
You’re going to need to look this one up.
When you sleep, you enter a phase called REM, or ‘Rapid Eye Movement’. It’s that point in your sleep where your body essentially reorganizes the messy clutter in your brain to, amongst other things, store memories. This is the deepest point of your rest, so you need time to rise to a light sleep before you wake up in the morning.
**So,** if you go to bed too late, your body won’t have enough time to get back to that light sleep mode and you’re left waking up sort of groggy or hit the snooze button. Your brain isn’t ready to be active for another 12 hours, so it’s sort of switched off.
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