Sleep-learning

Hypnopädie computational methods for learning in your sleep.

Human desire

The idea is to acquire knowledge without effort during sleep, is an old man wish. Reportedly practiced tutor in ancient Greece the way their students insinuate texts in his sleep, in which they had trouble during the day to be remembered. During sleep the memorization was more intense than during wakefulness.

In the U.S., for the first time in 1923 a notice was published about that in a naval college in Florida Morse code had been learned while sleeping.

In sleep learnable

Good memory is generally depends on three factors: the degree of attention on specific learning material (it must be meaningful to the learner, so that it can produce a well-developed emotional excitability ) and the transfer of learning information from short-term into long-term memory.

According to studies Hypnopädie previously could help to better memorize texts, vocabulary, schemas or tables, and support the entire learning process. However, under the current state of research, it is not possible to learn the Hypnopädie logical relationships.

Example of an experimental arrangement in the sleep research center

It learners were admitted to the trial, who possessed a good mental and physical health and did not suffer from sleep disorders.

Should go to bed before the learning text to be read aloud. Subsequently, the learner should relax, and it was presented to sleep a sound recording of the learning material, which was spoken more softly towards the end. Before waking in the morning of record was played again, after waking the learners read the text again and loud during the day the body of knowledge has been verified.

These courses ran, depending on the amount of information two to three weeks. The best results were measured when the embossing using the Hypnopädie done in a state in which an alpha rhythm of an EEG recording was present, corresponding to a relaxed waking state. In Einschlafstadium embossing was still possible if the EEG theta rhythm indicating the flat. ( This corresponds to the nonREM stage 1). Thus, the Hypnopädie is a learning method, which as such is to be taken seriously.

Dystopia

The practice of Hypnopädie is disputed by scientists and finds himself and others in the futuristic end-time novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley again where Hypnopädie is used for training and influencing people.