Recent research demonstrates that learning during sleep is possible, but that sleep-learning invariably produces memory traces that are consciously inaccessible in the awake state. Thus, sleep-learning can likely exert implicit, but not explicit, influences on awake behavior.
Considering this, does listening to something while you sleep help memorize it?
But a new study by Northwestern University researchers indicates that, depending on what we hear during the night, it is indeed possible to reinforce existing memories and enhance our recall after we wake up.
- Get a pink noise app from your smartphone’s app store or on YouTube, then play it as you go to sleep at night.
- Find a pink noise clip online. …
- Get a sound machine or noise generator that specifically uses pink noise.
Herein, what’s it called when you learn in your sleep?
Sleep-learning (also known as hypnopædia, or hypnopedia) is an attempt to convey information to a sleeping person, typically by playing a sound recording to them while they sleep.