Is it really possible to learn while u sleep?

ddviper

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ive been wondering and researching this for a little while, and in small amounts, and am wondering if anyone here actually has learned while sleeping or knows enough information.
 

BirdDad

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If you were a lucid dreamer you could practice math or meditate while sleeping or figure out proofs
 

SJP0tato

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Not sure if it's the same thing, but there have been times where I'll study for several hours at night before sleeping. If I'm still thinking about the things I was studying for class when I'm falling asleep (just re-going over the concepts in my mind) when I wake up in the morning I'll understand the materials much better than when I fell asleep the night before. Maybe subconciously working out the solutions... As for completely learning something, like falling asleep and learning differential equations I'm not sure if that seems reasonable or not.
 

slaves123

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I knew a teacher of mine who did say that she pratice solutions to different problems when she sleep, and that indeed she rest. People who says to be capable of doing that things exist, and will exist, but i honestly haven't experinced that thing ... not yet.
But it has been scientifically demonstrated that the human can incorporate a concept better if it sleep short before having read about it.
I believe sleeping may help to get used to new concepts recently stuidied, but diffinitly not to unknown things... it just an opinion though.

 

Mingon

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The indian mathmatician ramanujan had some of his ideas during his sleep.
 

V00D00

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Do you mean like... some instructional tapes playing while you sleep or something??
 

Looney

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If you mean like listening to those tapes, then it is possible, but not a very efficient means of doing it. I had a CD on expanding your vocabulary, and i remember that i had dreams about the words i was learning. For example, if the word was 'salutation', i would have a dream similar to what the definition and examples of it were. Whether you remember all the words when waking up is debatable, but some i did remember... i suspect you wouldn't learn a single CD of all 20 words in a single night, but after repeated use, you probably would.
 

fuzzynavel

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There was an advert/commercial on british TV a while back that went on about babies and when they sleep recounting what had happened during the day....learning!!....I doubt an advert would have got to TV if it completely lied.......maybe some truth to it....

I also agree that studying and then going to bed helps to learn.....maybe because when you are semi concious with things flying around you are totally relaxed and more focussed than when you are reading.......

 

Gibsons

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Originally posted by: fuzzynavel
There was an advert/commercial on british TV a while back that went on about babies and when they sleep recounting what had happened during the day....learning!!....I doubt an advert would have got to TV if it completely lied.......maybe some truth to it....

I also agree that studying and then going to bed helps to learn.....maybe because when you are semi concious with things flying around you are totally relaxed and more focussed than when you are reading.......


I think I would be more skeptical... just because someone managed to buy some airtime doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
 

Creideike

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If you mean like listening to those tapes, then it is possible

I don't think it is possible. In REM sleep, supposed one moves information from the short-term memory in to long-term memory, there by being beneficial as others have posted here before. However all current research that I am aware of has shown that subliminal learning (like when you are asleep) or messages doesn't happen like they believed back in the 50', and some debate exists if there is even a way to assimilate information unconsciously.
 

Genx87

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I have worked on problem solving in my sleep before. But this was while in school. Now I just hit the sack and await those dreams!

Been having some really funny chase stories lately hehe.
 

bobsmith1492

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I'll tell you, a good night's sleep after getting stuck on some hard problems will do a world of good. It's not a matter of learning new stuff while you sleep; it's a matter of understanding what you have previously heard out in the 'real world.'
 

Codewiz

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After running into coding problems, I have gone to sleep because I was agravated. I would occasionally wake up in the middle of the night and have a solution. I always keep a pen and paper near my bed for that reason. If I didn't write it down, I wouldn't remember what I thought of when I woke up in the morning.