**Our body does lots of very necessary things.** # While We Sleep - Memory encoding occurs. - [[Drinking Disrupts the Benefits of Sleep]] in this way, among others - New information and concepts appear to be continually processed while we sleep. Utilization, assimilation, and abstraction occur. - The brain is flushed of its waste. - The body heals. **** ## Source - [[The Organized Mind]] - [[Why We Sleep]] ## Related - [[Sleep is Important]] - [[Protect Sleep]] - [[Neural Functions of Sleep Stages]] - [[Sleep Stages Cycle]]