Post by khatunejannat on Feb 15, 2024 1:45:33 GMT -5
How much time do you spend sleeping? Is the quality of your sleep good? All these, and many more questions, we could ask ourselves in relation to sleep and its influence on our lives and our learning. Have you ever reflected on the relationship between sleep and learning ? In this article we will delve into the complex world of sleep to learn how it affects our ability to learn, and what we can do to improve both its quality and the benefits derived from a good rest at the appropriate time. Learning has a conscious part, but there are many “hidden” processes that are carried out unconsciously, and some of them, as we will see, develop while we sleep. That is why it is so important to sleep for the right amount of time , and that our sleep is also “quality” sleep. During the time we remain awake, our brain produces a quantity of toxic substances that gradually affect multiple factors of our behavior, attention, ability to concentrate , and, of course , learning . You may wonder, if our brain produces toxic substances, how are these substances eliminated so that we do not become intoxicated? This is where sleep comes into play, decisively.
Neuroscience studies in this field have discovered that during the sleep process our brain cells become smaller, that is, they shrink, so that, as their size decreases, the Saint Helena Email List size that exists between them increases and this facilitates circulation of toxic substances outside. If we think about the analogy of a river, we would say that it would be like releasing a traffic jam in a river. When the space between cells increases, brain fluids carry away toxins. Before taking these aspects into account, sleep may have seemed like a waste of time, however now we are beginning to understand that it is actually a biological process absolutely necessary for survival, as it allows our brain to stay clean and healthy. Let's analyze an activity in the daily life of a student, to understand the consequences of not sleeping in an exemplary way. Let's imagine that we have to take an exam, and we haven't slept enough because we have stayed up all night reviewing, or studying what we didn't have time for.
In this case we will go to take the exam with our brain full of metabolic toxins that we have not eliminated because we have hardly slept . We will go to the exam with a “contaminated brain”! These toxins will act like a poison that will not allow us to think clearly during the exam, and this will mean that we will have much more difficulty concentrating, finding answers, reasoning and expressing ourselves clearly. Wouldn't this be good for passing the exam? Not sleeping, or sleeping little, not only harms the result of an exam, but if we also sleep little for a period of time we can have health problems , such as headaches, heart disease, diabetes, depression, etc. We have already seen how sleep helps us eliminate waste.
Neuroscience studies in this field have discovered that during the sleep process our brain cells become smaller, that is, they shrink, so that, as their size decreases, the Saint Helena Email List size that exists between them increases and this facilitates circulation of toxic substances outside. If we think about the analogy of a river, we would say that it would be like releasing a traffic jam in a river. When the space between cells increases, brain fluids carry away toxins. Before taking these aspects into account, sleep may have seemed like a waste of time, however now we are beginning to understand that it is actually a biological process absolutely necessary for survival, as it allows our brain to stay clean and healthy. Let's analyze an activity in the daily life of a student, to understand the consequences of not sleeping in an exemplary way. Let's imagine that we have to take an exam, and we haven't slept enough because we have stayed up all night reviewing, or studying what we didn't have time for.
In this case we will go to take the exam with our brain full of metabolic toxins that we have not eliminated because we have hardly slept . We will go to the exam with a “contaminated brain”! These toxins will act like a poison that will not allow us to think clearly during the exam, and this will mean that we will have much more difficulty concentrating, finding answers, reasoning and expressing ourselves clearly. Wouldn't this be good for passing the exam? Not sleeping, or sleeping little, not only harms the result of an exam, but if we also sleep little for a period of time we can have health problems , such as headaches, heart disease, diabetes, depression, etc. We have already seen how sleep helps us eliminate waste.