Your Hippocampus Never Stops Working—Here's What It Does in the Dark

What happens in your brain during sleep and how does it affect memory and learning?

This episode explores the science of sleep, memory consolidation, and learning, and what the brain is doing after you close your eyes.

While you rest, your brain is actively replaying, organizing, and strengthening what you experienced during the day.

Tonight’s story follows:
• how memory consolidation works during sleep
• the roles of the hippocampus and neocortex in storing information
• what happens during different sleep stages, including REM and slow wave sleep
• why sleep spindles are important for learning
• how memories move from short term storage to long term understanding
• and what research shows about improving learning through sleep

This is a calm, evidence based look at the hidden work your brain performs every night.

Part educational deep dive, part bedtime story, designed to help you learn something new as you drift off to sleep.

After the one hour narrated story, the video continues with seven hours of ambient music for overnight listening.

Part of the Being and Becoming Sleep Smart series.

Topics:
sleep and memory • memory consolidation • how sleep affects learning • REM sleep • slow wave sleep • hippocampus • neocortex • sleep spindles • overnight learning • brain during sleep • neuroscience of sleep • educational sleep content

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