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Sleep prevents unwanted memories from intruding (uea.ac.uk)
4 points by gmays on Jan 10, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


In the past I've noticed that insufficient sleep correlates to metaphorical "ear worms", where I find myself thinking of some musical motif long past the point where I want to.

That would be consistent with it affecting memory-filtering in general.




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