SUBSCRIBE chat center Gazette|Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise SUBMIT POST ALL POSTS TOP POSTS Share | Print | Report Post Brain Compatible Teaching Chatboard Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set Hot Now... • September 2008 Gazette • Teacher Tech Center • The Lesson Bank Most Popular • Set Your Quick Links • Chat Center • All Chatboards • Lesson Bank • Teacher Mailrings • Project Center • Classified Ads • Live Chat & Meetings Select by • State/Region • Grade Level • Curriculum • Interest Group • Teaching Method Special Topics • Technology • Languages • Hot Topics • Career Center • Distance Learning • Fundraising • Tutoring Center • Teacher's Bookshelf • Free Printables • Classroom Photos • Meeting Archive • Teaching Articles • Library • Web Tools • Webring • Search • Advertise   Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep? Posted by Brian Hill on 6/01/06 On 5/31/06, Johnny Ducharme wrote: >> 1. Does listening to a tape of a subject while you sleep >> help you retain and learn it better when you are awake? >> >> Is this what they call "subliminal learning"? Johnny if subliminal learning was possible we would all be doing it. Learning is too complex a process to be done subliminally i.e. from a conscious source (via human input) to your subconscious. What we can do subliminally is plant ideas in the subconscious, a process which has been banned for decades though I have seen bona fida CDs advertised which claim they can plant positive ideas subliminally and some of these concern our ability to learn. However, once again I have to say that to date, all the evidence of learning while we sleep is negative. What we know about sleep is that apart from the body rebuilding damaged tissues and the emotions replaying the day’s events to make sense of them the cortex is primarily concerned with putting the new information learned that day in order and assimilating it into our current understanding of that particular topic and/or area of our lives. So assimilation and understanding of new information is what sleep is for rather than the absorption of new information. My own University, Edinburgh, was at the forefront of sleep experiments around the time I was doing psychology, though that wasn't my area of expertise. Hope that helps your understanding of the learning process......can I suggest you sleep on it? Having said all of that, listening to information as you fall asleep will help you to remember and understand better than if you just start reading or listening to it during the day. You could look on it as putting on an undercoat if you are painting a door. The reason for taking it in subconsciously is that your conscious is on the way out, your are physically relaxed...even more so as your brain has 'switched' to auditory, thus releasing therefore relaxing the muscles (which is also why nurses suggest you run a tap in the toilet to ease urination after an operation....it's not the water which does the trick but the brain switching from kinaesthetic (e.g. tense muscles around the stitches) to auditory. But I wouldn't put too much store by it as a studying tool; use it strictly as a supplementary. Accelerated Learning Posts on this thread, including this one fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 10/01/04, by rather not say right now. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 10/02/04, by Mama Maria. Re: Listening to tapes while you sleep?---I vote myth...., 10/02/04, by Joyce. Re: listening to tapes while you sleep? Long, 10/15/04, by Alex. Re: ALEX...question for you..., 8/13/05, by Someone who just wants to know.... Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 8/27/05, by I realy need to learn English while I am sleeping , can you . Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 8/28/05, by Brian. Re: ALEX...question for you..., 1/24/06, by Brian. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 4/25/06, by came. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 5/01/06, by Brian. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 5/01/06, by Uncle Fred. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 5/06/06, by Brian. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 5/31/06, by Johnny Ducharme. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 6/01/06, by Brian Hill. Re: Those of us with a fridge 10years old or less have, 6/02/06, by a light in the fridge and freezer!. Re: Re:listening to tapes while you sleep?wrong stage, 6/02/06, by AM. Re: Those of us with a fridge 10years old or less have, 6/04/06, by Monica Ghee. Re: language learning , 2/03/07, by Tracy. Re: language learning , 5/18/07, by Aaron. Re: myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 5/19/07, by sm. Re: Listening to tapes while you sleep?---I vote myth...., 7/03/07, by Mrs. Robinson. Re: language learning , 7/07/07, by James. Re: fact or myth - listening to tapes while you sleep?, 3/18/08, by Nemirovich Danchenko.

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