And you also have to be able to sleep well to in order to forget well, because you want to, in order to make that life narrative as cohesive as possible….” So you have to be able to sleep well in order to remember well.
Some of it is moving memories from short-term to longer-term memory and those sorts of things. Some of it is actually placing the memory. That’s the “consolidation of memory” sort of phase. That process of actually putting them in the memory book, if you will … really happens at the time that you sleep.
