{"id":216485,"date":"2025-06-24T02:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-universal-sleep-pattern-could-help-strengthen-and-separate-memories"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:20:41","slug":"a-universal-sleep-pattern-could-help-strengthen-and-separate-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-universal-sleep-pattern-could-help-strengthen-and-separate-memories","title":{"rendered":"A universal sleep pattern could help strengthen and separate memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-universal-sleep-pattern-could-help-strengthen-and-separate-memories3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although we know sleep is essential to our physical and mental well-being, it remains an incredibly enigmatic behavior, scientifically speaking. Researchers at the University of Michigan, however, may have developed a new hypothesis to account for one of sleep\u2019s looming mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>Every living thing that sleeps appears to follow the same basic pattern. From wakefulness, organisms transition to a repeating cycle of sleep with low <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain activity<\/a> followed by a stage where our brains are harder at work, among other things, generating vivid dreams. Humans\u2019 eyes also dance around behind our eyelids during that high-activity stage, which is why it\u2019s referred to as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/rapid+eye+movement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rapid eye movement<\/a> (REM) sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are a few notable exceptions\u2014including people with narcolepsy and people who haven\u2019t slept in days\u2014this repeating non-REM to REM sleep cycle is remarkably prevalent across the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/animal+kingdom\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">animal kingdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we know sleep is essential to our physical and mental well-being, it remains an incredibly enigmatic behavior, scientifically speaking. Researchers at the University of Michigan, however, may have developed a new hypothesis to account for one of sleep\u2019s looming mysteries. Every living thing that sleeps appears to follow the same basic pattern. From wakefulness, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}