Learning in your sleep?

I have an idea that it is possible to learn while you are sleeping! I mean your practically unconscious thus is the road to your subconsciens open! And this is where all things you need to know deep inside the back of your head and just "splurt it out" whenever asked!

Just like "What is 2+2?" It isn´t something you think about when answering, you know it in your mind before the question is asked! You don´t think "If I have two bananas and then get two more, I would have..... 4 bananas!"

The only thing is I don´t now how to go about it?(I´m BTW thinking of letting myself be a test bunny) What methods would I use? Think there are any risks? (The risks are obviuos but how large are they?) What types of information would be possible to learn this way? (I am thinking maths, logically learning etc. i don´t think history and such is so good) I am open to suggestions...

Thank you for your time!

P.S. My spelling aint to good... Sorry

i tried it doesnt work... i was ****ed for a english speach some macbeth speech so i recoreded it and played it all through the night by the time i got up i had delearned stuff so i dont think it works
rioter

Well maybe it is just the method, there must some other way to learn! Perhaps if you use optics... Maybe something visual, of course combined with the audio! Colors must be the way to go!

There was a lot of experimentation in the 70's and early 80's on this question, I think it was also by the same ppl who were trying to guess shapes on cards (ESP) and testing spoon benders... Google it and see what you come up with..

Oh another method to "Un learn".. connect ya brain to 450V DC... best Bulk eraser I ever encountered...

Cheers

Haha... I´ll keep the unlearning bit in mind....

I accept absolutely no responsibility if you go brain dead,suffer a case of amnesia,or just completely lose your mind.I've taken a few psychology classes,but am by no means a psychologist/hypnotherepist.

I don't know that it is possible to learn in your sleep,but I do know that right before you fall asleep,your mind is in a more suggestable state(Sort of a hypnotic state).So if you can't learn in your sleep,you might try an audio tape that would jack up your motivation/intrest in the subject you want to learn.Outside sources can influence your mind during the sleep process,but usually your brain twists it into something that it's not(ie. somebody drops a book on the ground and you dream you're being shot at "You'd have to be a pretty heavy sleeper")
So I imagine it would do the same thing with an audio tape.So in the end,if anything,you'd probably just make yourself dumber by doing that.

Hmmm... You might be rigt! I´ve read that the mind uses sleep as a way to sort out all those impressions it has gotten all day, but them in the "right boxes"! So if this process is interrupted somehow ones social and learning capabilities might drop!

Found this site http://www.sleeplearning.com/ and it is one big advertise! After reading a while i found out its tapes they play in your sleep! But not a word on what they say, how it works and what kind results it gives! that sucks!

I used this method when I studied for my ACT and SAT back in the 80's......it works really well if you introduce LSD into the equation...


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This comment was made 'tongue-in-cheek' :D

hehehe... I´m not sure the LSD part of the equation helps your memory! Bút then again that isn´t one of hte goals :)

If you really contemplate the question.....you may realize you already learn in your sleep. Although the problem is you don't necessarily learn what you wish to learn. As you probably know, you have multiple dreams in your deepest state of sleep, and these dreams are things you've either never experienced before, or a contorted version of reality. So in all truth, your brain is probably at it's most creative state while you're asleep. I've written a few of my works based upon images I've created while I was asleep. I know this doesn't really help you learn math, but maybe it will help you specialize your hopes in learning, so as to refine your gest, and produce the greatest results.

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Originally posted here by imaginedsanity
If you really contemplate the question.....you may realize you already learn in your sleep. Although the problem is you don't necessarily learn what you wish to learn. As you probably know, you have multiple dreams in your deepest state of sleep, and these dreams are things you've either never experienced before, or a contorted version of reality. So in all truth, your brain is probably at it's most creative state while you're asleep. I've written a few of my works based upon images I've created while I was asleep. I know this doesn't really help you learn math, but maybe it will help you specialize your hopes in learning, so as to refine your gest, and produce the greatest results.

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I agree. I have been stuck with logical issues with programs that I've written in the past. When this happens I find it is good to step away from the problem and let the subconcious (sp?) work on it. This might involve a night of sleep or just diverting my attention to something else -ie a movie. While, dream state learning might not yet be possible sub-concious problem sloving does work. It is very much like not finding the object your looking for until you stop looking.

Cheers,
-D

i dont knwo how you would do it but be carefull what you learn .. i mean its like a comuter hard drive cept you cant delete data that you learn.. ya knwo what im sayin..

wish you the best of luck tho...

melissa

That is how I passed History in high school. I flunked the first semester. The second semester I would record the chapter before a test and set it to play at 4am. I passed with a C. I don't know if that is proof but....

Actually Melissa you can delete information from your mind. I've successfully erased the majority of my childhood from memory, so it can be done, but doing so can be dangerous.

so true...

the problem is not deleteing to much...
as soon as you start useing the rm function, it soon becomes a rm -rf function..

then you start to forget more and more, in a downward spiral of regrett..