Sleep: Your Brain’s Memory Cleanup

Your brain deletes pizza slices you never ordered. Every night while you sleep,

your mind sorts memories like toppings on a massive pizza. The slices you touched, tasted,

noticed... those stay. But here's the wild part. Your brain literally

erases the rest. Shrinks connections. Flushes out proteins. It's called synaptic pruning,

and it happens in deep sleep. Think of it like this: you can't keep every topping

on one pizza forever. Too heavy. Too messy. So your brain picks the slices worth

keeping and tosses the rest into the void. That embarrassing moment from Tuesday?

Gone. That random face in the coffee shop? Deleted. Your mind is constantly