Dozing off in bed after learning new information may improve performance, new research has suggested.

Going to bed straight after learning new information can improve the ability to retain the information according to a recent study.

Experts at Havard Medical School documented that participants in their study who dreamt about a computer maze that they were shown performed well when encouraged to navigate around it on wakening.

Robert Stickgold, who published the paper stated “We think that the dreams are a marker that the brain is working on the same problem at many levels.

“The dreams might reflect the brain’s attempt to find associations for the memories that could make them more useful in the future.”