{"id":216712,"date":"2025-06-27T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/deeper-sleep-is-more-likely-to-lead-to-eureka-moments-study-indicates"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:25:30","slug":"deeper-sleep-is-more-likely-to-lead-to-eureka-moments-study-indicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/deeper-sleep-is-more-likely-to-lead-to-eureka-moments-study-indicates","title":{"rendered":"Deeper sleep is more likely to lead to eureka moments, study indicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deeper-sleep-is-more-likely-to-lead-to-eureka-moments-study-indicates3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSleeping on it,\u201d especially dropping deeper than a doze, might help people gain insight into certain kinds of tasks, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/plos.io\/4jc8ekm\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>PLOS Biology<\/i> by Anika L\u00f6we and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Humans sometimes find that they have a sudden \u201ceureka\u201d moment on a problem they\u2019ve been working on, producing sudden insight or breakthroughs. Scientists have yet to have their own \u201caha\u201d moment of insight on how it might work, though sleep appears to play a role.<\/p>\n<p>To better understand how sleep might lead to insight while <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/problem-solving\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">problem-solving<\/a>, the authors of this pre-registered study asked <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/z5rxg\/resources\" target=\"_blank\">90 people to track a series of dots across a screen<\/a>. The participants were given instructions about a seemingly simple task that merely involved responding to the dots on a keyboard, but the instructions left out a trick that could make the task easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSleeping on it,\u201d especially dropping deeper than a doze, might help people gain insight into certain kinds of tasks, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Anika L\u00f6we and colleagues. Humans sometimes find that they have a sudden \u201ceureka\u201d moment on a problem they\u2019ve been working on, producing sudden insight or breakthroughs. Scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216712","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=216712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}