Experiencing consolidation in memory, sleep and dreaming

Summary

Numerous evidences brought together have suggested that dreaming is as a result of a consolidation memory during sleep. It is universally known and established that post learning sleep is important for the performance of human memory. Similarly, it has been known for the longest time that learning experiences affect the content of sleeping. In this research, we evaluate the new evidence that encoded memories are consolidated and reactivated in the side of the brain that is asleep and that this whole process is reflected directly in dreaming which later provides a trusted window of where the functions of sleep are performed. In all the stages of sleep, as we shall reveal in the result section, the brain as well as the mind work together to process new memories and later consolidate them into the long term memory storage thus integrating information that has been acquired lately with earlier period experience.

In previous researches regarding this topic, researchers have gathered evidence that has demonstrated the benefits of post learning sleep to the performance of the human memory while performing numerous tasks including verbal learning, emotional memory, procedural skill learning and spatial navigation. In this research, we show how memory appears nightly at the mention of dreams while research on animals reveal how pre-sleep experience is replayed during post learning sleep. Memory consolidation that is dependent on sleep has been examined extensively in this researches to show how the brain works during the activity of sleep. In this research, we conclude that the evidence of the activities of the brain and the mind are vital approaches to understand memory consolidation in pre and post sleep patterns. Previous works have suggested that dream experiences from sleep are as a direct reflection of the memory processes in the brain.