I think sleep teaching can work. I used to sleep with a bible tucked under my pillow and maybe that helped me become atheist.
This post was edited by Kittigate at October 3, 2016 2:29 AM MDT
You know Rosie, I heard about that years ago, and it actually made sense to.me enough to try it. Butvno, it didn't work for me. Good question. Can you imagine if it did?
Thank you for your reply and the compliment Lago. I appreciate both. I think you're supposed to be "listening" to tapes or recordings as you sleep and the info supposedly filters into your subconscious. I just wonder how it would get to your conscious mind? I wonder if some folks are more susceptible to it than others? Just as some folks can be hypnotized while others can't. Happy Monday m'dear! :)
When I looked it up, it looked as though the science on it was inconclusive. Material delivered to a sleeper was not remembered upon waking. There were two exceptions. One was if the lesson was delivered during alpha brain wave states, which only occurs just prior to waking - and that was deemed to be awake not sleeping. The other was that the use of smells during the repeat of material previously learned while awake could reinforce information already acquired.
I think it would be easier to say that we teach ourselves lessons during dreaming states when the unconscious draws on our daily life experience. I have often learned insights about my emotions and relationships this way, and sometimes also dreamed creative solutions to problems.
Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply hartfire. I wonder if the info does filter into your subconsc ious mind how would your conscious mind access it? As with hypnosis, some folks are more susceptible than others to hypnosis and I wonder whether the same thing is true with sleep teaching...some are more susceptible to it? Happy Monday m'dear! :)
I have been willingly under hypnosis in therapy - using the technique developed by Eric Erikson. It was highly effective. I was not asleep. Rather I was fully aware but in a deeply relaxed state which removed fear and allowed imagination a free and uninhibited rein. The power of the imagination can then be used to re-program one's operant conditioning, in my case, to become more effective at asserting boundaries to prevent abuse. It worked. But I cannot see how that could work when someone is asleep or dreaming - it has been tested and found that it does not.
LOL! :D Happy I never had that. My professors and tutors were livewires all. But one of my mother's former boyfriends developed narcolepsy. He could fall asleep at the dinner table in the midst of a highly emotional or intellectual conversation with his mouth still full of food. Just fell in whatever direction his body was leaning. Turned out to be a dangerous variety of sleep disorder, something wrong in the brain's neurological functioning.
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