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мне хорошо спалось is an impersonal construction that focuses on the experience/condition: “sleep came easily to me / I slept well (as a state)”.
- мне is dative (“to me”), used to mark the person who experiences the state.
- спалось is a special form meaning “(it) slept” in the sense of “it was possible/easy to sleep.”
You can say я хорошо спал(а), which is more straightforward and simply states the action “I slept well.”
Because the sentence is impersonal: there is no grammatical subject like я doing the verb. In Russian, many impersonal past-tense forms appear as neuter singular by default:
- (мне) спалось = “(for me) it slept” → neuter singular past.