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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by b0afc375b5 on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:16AM (#34010682)
Is there a specific term for this subconscious phenomenon?

I believe I have experienced this multiple times, but I remember one event in particular when I couldn't solve a book exercise for several hours, I slept in frustration. When I woke up I knew the answer immediately as if it was obvious.

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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by 1270018080 on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:29AM (#34010799)
Or when I am trying to memorize a speech. I don't have it memorized when I go to bed, and I have it memorized when I wake up.
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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by rhplus on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:45AM (#34010914)
“Sleeping on it” probably gives the brain time for “spreading activation“, which is a model that describes how relationships between concepts are explored and formed.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-012-0256-7

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/spread...

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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by justsomehnguy on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:15AM (#34011114)
> I slept in frustration

Human brain runs a defrag process (quite literally) when the body sleeps. Not only this removes the cruft from the day but also rearranges and makes links for the knowledge gathered through the day.

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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by hn_go_brrrrr on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:05AM (#34012444)
Is glymphatic cleaning related to knowledge retention?
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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by justsomehnguy on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:12PM (#34024562)
It's more like they go hand in hand. I wouldn't say what it depends on it, but without it it would much harder to retain and structure new information. It is commonly observed in a long hours jobs and tests what after some time the new info just doesn't get processed properly.
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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by sanatgersappa on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:00AM (#34011531)
Rich Hickey has a nice name for it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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Re:Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years by Vetch on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:33AM (#34012943)
Perhaps the Eureka effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect)?
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