Comments on: We can learn new information when we sleep http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/27/we-can-learn-new-information-when-we-sleep/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Hisham Eldai http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/27/we-can-learn-new-information-when-we-sleep/#comment-15759 Hisham Eldai Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:04:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7499#comment-15759 An interesting find. Since our brains solidify, in our sleep, knowledge we acquired during or waking hours and that this passes as a dogma. Here, learning while sleeping seems to suggest the possibility that an opposite mechanism can also take place. Stories of solving equations in our sleep when preparing for math tests can probably be familiar to many of us and I suppose can indicate that knowledge solidification is in progress. If we associate smells to stuff we are studying by day and then in the night during our sleep find a way to inhale one of these fragrances can't we potentially trigger subject-guided solidification of information ?. Sounds like an Idea, a bit crazy though ! An interesting find. Since our brains solidify, in our sleep, knowledge we acquired during or waking hours and that this passes as a dogma. Here, learning while sleeping seems to suggest the possibility that an opposite mechanism can also take place.

Stories of solving equations in our sleep when preparing for math tests can probably be familiar to many of us and I suppose can indicate that knowledge solidification is in progress. If we associate smells to stuff we are studying by day and then in the night during our sleep find a way to inhale one of these fragrances can’t we potentially trigger subject-guided solidification of information ?. Sounds like an Idea, a bit crazy though !

]]> By: IW http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/27/we-can-learn-new-information-when-we-sleep/#comment-15758 IW Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:55:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7499#comment-15758 The whole site is evidently down. We'll have to try the link later. The whole site is evidently down. We’ll have to try the link later.

]]> By: Kim Harrell http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/27/we-can-learn-new-information-when-we-sleep/#comment-15757 Kim Harrell Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:10:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7499#comment-15757 The link to the whole article didn't work for me? Sounds interesting! The link to the whole article didn’t work for me? Sounds interesting!

]]> By: Regine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/27/we-can-learn-new-information-when-we-sleep/#comment-15756 Regine Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:12:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7499#comment-15756 Very interesting BUT the link to read further does not work. Greetings Regine Very interesting BUT the link to read further does not work. Greetings Regine

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