Store session value in a variable in laravel

I'm trying to store a session in a variable using session()->push() in laravel but it returns undefined variable if I dd() it. Please see my code below:

$names = session()->push('names', ['John', 'Billy', 'Alex', 'Jeff']);

dd($names);

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