Can a Person Learn While Sleeping?
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Did they compare to a group who slept without listening to the words? I'm curious whether the playback actually had any effect or whether it was just sleeping right after learning that did it.
I can't say I've gotten anywhere near the state of attaining lucid dreaming on a regular basis by applying them but there's been some interesting moments in my on-and-off attempts.
I accidentally discovered it when taking Methylcobalamin B12 supplements. For the first week or so I'd lucid dream every morning for a few hours before fully waking up. It was quite interesting, but would cease happening if I continued taking the MB12. Only after stopping for a few weeks would they recur upon reintroducing the MB12.
There are more reliable supplements for stimulating lucid dreaming in particular, I'm pretty sure my MB12 experience is just a minor side effect. I've read it affects melatonin production, and I did find myself growing sleepy earlier and more consistently when taking it. I don't know if that's related to the lucid dreaming though.
This could have been down to a fresh brain but the speed at which I would solve the problem in the morning and pretty much just know the solution I’m convinced I was solving the problem in my sleep and then basically just writing it down when I woke.
I wrote the story about Rust where the programming concepts were hard to grasp and most just give up the first time trying to learn Rust. Normally months or years later, it clicked the 2nd time around for whatever reason.
It's the part of the mind which is always operating.. A sure-fire tactic is to ask yourself a question right before bed, and allow it to do it's thing
It is possible to communicate with the subconscious. In fact, it is always communicating with us. Our society is so focused on the conscious mind that we tend to not notice. This is what anxiety is. The subconscious is trying to express an unmet need. The medical field tries to suppress and numb the symptoms instead of listening to your body.
Source: Nobody told me this. I discovered this while dealing with massive personal problems over many years. Operating under this assumption is how I overcame serious addiction, anxiety and depression. Meditation is a good way to calm to conscious mind so you can "hear" your subconscious and body.
Even if you design the whole thing today, wait at least till tomorrow: you'll have a much better solution.
I have narcolepsy. The daytime drowsiness started when I was 19 and got progressively worse during the later years of my university study. I pretty much abandoned attending class by my 3rd year.
What you describe as 'lucid dreaming' sounds similar to what I used to call my 'party trick': I would sleep soundly through the compulsory PhD seminars or a few years later my MBA classes, then wake up as the speaker asked for questions. Straight away I would ask a relevant and insightful question! People around me would look stunned: "How could you do that? You were asleep!"
So somehow while sleeping, my subconscious mind was still absorbing the talk. When I woke up, I had no idea what the talk was about, but bizarrely I usually knew what question to ask. Even today, 20-25 years later, my MBA and uni friends remark on it.
In my case, I've learned to stop at all controlling the dreams, despite being aware of whether or not I am dreaming, and that seems to have helped.
However, both of us are simply relating anecdotes; we may both have had significant sleep issues arise even without the lucid dreaming (albeit in a slightly different form).
In your case, you probably were under pressure. But if it continues, it might cause damage to your brain.
I'm fairly sure you're the one misinformed. Do you have any source on that? I recently read Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep and why it didn't feel comprehensive, the book did NOT mention anything about dreaming while sleeping being a negative.
Unfortunately, I was unable to replicate that "mind awake, body asleep" effect since then. I suspect it is because I was never as tired as I was back then.
Sometimes this leads to useful insights, but much more often I think I've solved some problem in my dream, only to wake up and immediately realize that the solution makes no sense at all. Once I do wake up though, I find that if I give myself a moment to rest and then come at the problem again, I can re-contextualize much more quickly and make quick work of the issue.
exercising well before bedtime
(scare quotes because it's really a slippery self-help kind of term that people use as though it has some concrete scientific meaning)
Exercising in the evening is optimal for muscle growth as power is maximal[0] and it's better for recovery, though there are other factors such as daily schedule and I've often heard people saying that working out at morning has a good psychological effect.
Whatever is best for ones consistency and goals.
0 - https://youtu.be/zOMR73FC4Qw?t=638
Further references:
This applies to diets too. The best one is the one you can stick to.
https://www.livescience.com/60889-nighttime-injuries-heal-mo...
I would have though morning ones were more beneficial?
Doing exercise before bed is not a good idea if you have difficulties sleeping though.
Good luck: https://ufile.io/577bn
> DMCA notifications based on unregistered works are not valid.
Heh, would only be cheekier if their DMCA <form> had file upload inputs for copyright_docs and registration_docs.
Outline seems exclusively used as a paywall bypass system in the wild. Can't be good for their longterm viability.
Any know if/how they make money?
If it wasn't for its annotation system, I'd put it in the realm of rather straightforward side projects. There are really good "readability mode" transformer libraries out there. And you can imagine buying a subscription to each of the major publications to bypass their paywall.
Paywall bypassing is something I would've expected from archiving services too but I noticed this is perhaps false. For example, http://archive.is/ycfsk archived the paywall.
If DMCA only applies to registered works that's interesting to me -- seems it is, eg https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7f07e1c0-5264..., in fact it appears as in other areas of USA law you have to buy your right (from the government in form of a registration in this case) which seems contrary to Berne, I'm suprised it doesn't put USA in breech of their duties as it effectively reverses the "automatic" aspect of copyright for ordinary citizens.
How can I turn back to fantastic dreams, adventures and generally things of pleasure?
Edit: adding link to the podcast if anyone's interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
I'm not sure if I could learn but I bet I could prime my brain with basics (e.g., vocabulary words in my non-native language).
Coincidentally, the words "wake me up" and "I can't wake up" are said a total of 18 times in the song; I wonder what effect that had on me.
considers an experiment
Weirdly enough, despite it being lucid dreaming and I'm fully aware that I'm dreaming, I have no recognition of where the music is coming from until I wake up.
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So the answer is going to range between a plain "no" and a "kind of sort of in a way that can, at best, work as an extremely modest supplement to conscious learning, under best conditions." And you need not worry about missing out on some cutting edge breakthrough. If and when such things happens this would be really really big news - not something restricted to a random classically clickbaited headline with the actual article hidden behind a paywall.
I just mention this because I think our inclination is to let our curiosity get the best of us, and of course - what if there's something we've missed out on? But in the process of this, we greatly incentivize this form of faux journalism. And the nice thing is is that the above logic can be applied to absolutely huge swaths of the entire media.
So the answer to this question is: Depends on the person, but there is nothing in the way the body works that would prevent you from learning while sleeping.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20181017190008/https://www.super...
Come morning, its not that I suddenly have a solution, but more often than not I've developed a good strategy for how to test the problem. By using this new method I'm able then to trial-and-error the problem in a systemic way, leading to a solution.
TLDR: Sleeping often gives me successful 'approaches' to problems