University of Lübeck

Because when I studied at the university, I had to, of course, finish my school with a little research project.

And then I joined a department at the University of Lübeck, which is in northern Germany.

And I did it really well, apparently, because they offered me a PhD position.

And the host of this department was Jan Born.

The term borrows from biology, something quietly developing in warmth and darkness before it is ready to emerge.

Researcher Ulrich Wagner at the University of Lübeck showed that participants who slept between learning a complex task and attempting a hidden rule were nearly three times more likely to find the shortcut than those who stayed awake.

Sleep did not just consolidate what they learned, it restructured it.

Something in the dark reorganized the pieces into a shape the waking mind had not seen.