How you can learn certain things in your sleep

[twilyth]

In addition to the things the article mentions, I've also read about self-hypnosis recordings that you listen to while you sleep to help improve the quality of your sleep.

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They know, for instance, that people can better remember the location of an object if overnight they listen to the tune they heard when they put it there. Similarly, someone learning a foreign language can boost her skills by playing the sounds of newly-learned foreign words while she sleeps.

While the next step may be applying these techniques to try to sharpen memory and learning more broadly, here are a few examples of the specific skills scientists have found can be honed while you are fast asleep.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I hear you can help learn while you sleep....then I hear it's a bunch of bologna and doesn't work.

I also hear that star light can give you cancer and that every piece of bacon you eat you loose 3 minutes of your life. Take it as you will.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Every piece of bacon you eat you loose 3 minutes of your life.

If that were true I would have been dead in 1492.