Problems are solved by sleeping

Getting a good night’s sleep can actually help you solve problems (and you thought “sleep on it” was just an expression):

The study at the University of California San Diego showed that the volunteers who entered REM during sleep improved their creative problem solving ability by almost 40%.

The findings suggest it is not merely sleep itself, or the passage of time, that is important for the problem solving, but the quality of sleep.

Read more at: BBC NEWS | Health | Problems are solved by sleeping.