By sleeping enough hours, you can remember things better. Short learning sessions and enough sleep are often more effective than long learning sessions and little sleep. Your brain uses sleep to process and store newly learned information in your long-term memory. Furthermore, sleep ensures that you have more energy and less stress. It also helps you think better. In short, you need enough sleep to learn well and perform well on tests, for example. You need an average of eight hours of sleep per night. A few tips to sleep as well as possible: • Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same times • Drink as little coffee, energy drinks, and other caffeine-containing beverages as possible • Do not use the snooze function: snoozing wakes you up repeatedly from your sleep. As a result, you do not wake up refreshed and are less productive for the rest of the day. • Do not watch movies before going to sleep that trigger adrenaline • Place your phone far away from your bed • If you worry before sleeping, write down your thoughts and address them the next day
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