learning when asleep?

Question

1) Can we learn & study by placing a tape recorder/cd player near our pillow when we sleep? does it work?

2)Can this be used if its true and works to learn languages for example?

Answer 1

I've heard that, about languages at least. It seems like it would work, even if it's in a way like the foreign lessons weave themselves into your dreams...but there are some "behind the scenes" factors as well.

It worked in Brave New World but I certainly wouldn't use that as my reference.

Answer 2

Asleep Or Awake We Retain Memory
Sleeping helps to reinforce what we've learned. And brain scans have revealed that cerebral activity associated with learning new information is replayed during sleep. But, in a study published in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Philippe Peigneux and colleagues at the University of Liege demonstrate for the first time that the brain doesn't wait until night to structure information. Day and night, the brain doesn't stop (re)working what we learn.


After participants learned to perform either a procedural or a spatial task, learning-dependent, regional brain activity persisted and evolved with time, suggesting the neural integration of recent memories (Photo: Peigneux, et al)Ads by Google Advertise on this site

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Taking advantage of the new opportunities offered by 3 Tesla's functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)(*), Philippe Peigneux et al. recorded (or scanned) the cerebral activity of volunteers while they performed a ten-minute auditory attention task every half hour in two sessions spaced out over a few weeks. In each of these sessions, during the half hour between the first two scans of the attention task, the volunteer was given something new to learn. A third scan was then performed after a half-hour rest. During one of the two sessions, the volunteer memorized a route in a virtual city he or she was exploring on a computer. This spatial navigation task is known to be dependent on the hippocampus, a cerebral structure that plays a vital role in learning. The other session was devoted to acquisition by repetition (or procedural learning) of new visuomotor sequences. For this task, it wasn't necessary that the subject be aware of what he or she was learning, and its success depends mainly on the integrity of the striatum and the related motor regions.

Answer 3

Like self hypnosis I have found that at least personally this is a non-runner. Afraid you will have to do it the hard way. If your problem with language is vocabulary then I would suggest that you get hold of one of the many books that have titles like "how to have a super power memory", which teach various systems for improving your memory this will make it a lot easier! I have been using a mnemonic system for remembering PIN's for years.

Answer 4

There is a self hypnosis technique that uses recordings to be played as you drift off to sleep. I had a set 20 years ago but they did not work for me.

Answer 5

Recent research shows that it isn't possible to learn when you are asleep, this is a myth.

Answer 6

I don't think so that you can learn when you are sleeping mate

Answer 7

You again? Get a fu(king life already!