In the Special Collector’s Edition of Scientific American Summer 2019 there is an article about sleep learning, learning while you are asleep. There are different tales that learning can happen while you are asleep and there are also different experiments about it. During sleep our brain is not turned off and specific memories can be activated (memory reactivation) and we can learn or memorize things we have heard during our sleep.
Have you experienced sleep learning yourself and can you tell what your experiences are? Or have you conducted any experiments about sleep learning and what are the results?
Dear Rudi Darson ,
The answer is yes and no, depending on what we mean by "learning." As you mentioned some research shows that the sleeping brain is far from idle and that some forms of learning can happen. However, whether that's worth losing sleep over has yet to be determined
Dear Rudi Darson ,
The answer is yes and no, depending on what we mean by "learning." As you mentioned some research shows that the sleeping brain is far from idle and that some forms of learning can happen. However, whether that's worth losing sleep over has yet to be determined
Dear Rudi Darson
Is it possible to share the link of the article or its title?
Very interesting topic... Indeed, I do really believe in "sleep learning", better to call "sleep memorization".
When I was a student, I still remember that I was facing some difficulty solving a math issue.I waked up at night suddenly& fixed that Equation.
Yes, during sleep the traffic of thoughts across your brain cells gets more well organized and all the logic facts, basics, laws, roles,... etc come to the right place during sleep. I wish I could prove that experimentally. However, I did not do right now unfortunately.
Dear Mohamed Hossni : Article Sleep Learning Gets Real
From @Ken paller and @Delphine:- Inaldous huxley’s brave new world, a boy memorizes each word of a lecture in english, a language he does not speak. The learning happens as the boy sleeps within earshot of a radio broadcast of the lecture. On awakening, he is able to recite the entire lecture. Based on this discovery, the totalitarian authorities of Huxley’s dystopian world adapt the method to shape the unconscious minds of all their citizens. Article Sleep Learning Gets Real
Bulgarian system by Georgi Lozanov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Lozanov
Dear Mohamed Hossni , see link of Mohammed Kemal about Sleep learning gets real. See also https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/learning-while-sleeping-the-challenges-of-inequality/.
Rudi Darson
That is certainly a very interesting question and research task. Unfortunately, I have not done any more detailed research or experiments with systematic learning experience during sleep, but I am curious about your results. From my own experience, however, I value the importance of sleep very highly: for lasting health, high work motivation and the feeling of being in good harmony with oneself and with the rest of the world.
Best, Hein
Very stimulating topic , looking forward to see more informative comment
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