Subliminal Sleep Learning

[Petra]

How does it work? Or doesn't it?


I've just downloaded a file through WinMX that is supposed to be a subliminal sleep learning tape called "Complete What You Start", and it just sounds like 5 minutes of the sound of a bubbling brook. I think it'll be more likely to make me want to pee than it will make me get more things done come the tomorrow. :shrug:

But, I'll put it on repeat and go to sleep with it playing on...and on....and on...

[livius drusus]

I made a tape of all the theorems for my Geometry exam in 8th grade and listened to it as I fell asleep and in the mornings at breakfast. I got 100% and I quite literally knew everything on the test. It's the first and last time that every happened to me.

Of course, it wasn't subliminal. It was just good ol' fashioned repetition during brain rest time.

[Godless Wonder]

I once had some weight loss tapes, well they were supposed to be, but they were vocabulary builder tapes by mistake. I became suspicious when I found after several days that still my gastronomic rapacity knew no satiety. No, wait, that was Homer Simpson.

I don't think they work.

[livius drusus]

:chuckle:

[LadyShea]

The subliminal part bothers me. How can you know there is anything BUT a babbling brook on there?

I think the brain can learn while sleeping, but I would just make my own tape, or buy one from a hypnotherapist where you can hear the actual messages..

[HelenM]

I made a tape of all the theorems for my Geometry exam in 8th grade and listened to it as I fell asleep and in the mornings at breakfast. I got 100% and I quite literally knew everything on the test. It's the first and last time that every happened to me.

Of course, it wasn't subliminal. It was just good ol' fashioned repetition during brain rest time.

Do you think you learned anything from the tape after you fell asleep or do you think all your learning happened at breakfast time and before you fell asleep?

I don't believe I can subliminally learn anything while I'm asleep. I think the only people who benefit from those tapes are the ones selling them for profit.

Helen

[livius drusus]

Do you think you learned anything from the tape after you fell asleep or do you think all your learning happened at breakfast time and before you fell asleep?

Definitely the latter. I suspect being generally relaxed at bedtime and breakfast helped me absorb the info, but there was nothing subliminal or putting the book under the pillow magic about it.

I don't believe I can subliminally learn anything while I'm asleep. I think the only people who benefit from those tapes are the ones selling them for profit.

And benefit they do. The promise of effortless learning is bound to appeal.

[lisarea]

When I was a kid, we had this one subliminal tape floating around the house for a while. It was either one of my mother's insane projects to improve her children, or else someone found it in a gutter or a thrift store or something. I forget even what the goal of the tape was, but it had one side with annoying new age music on it with the subliminal message, and on the other side, it had the message so you could hear it. It was the most insane thing ever.

It was this smarmy guy telling you to make yourself very small or something, and then go walk up your nostrils and into your brain, which was sitting on a throne or something, and kneel before it, then walk up to the throne and shake hands with each lobe, then hug them and tell them you love them very very much and politely request their cooperation in your endeavors. Something like that. And then, it told you all about whatever, which I think was some kind of generic "Be a success!" message or something.

Anyways, I don't have any reason to believe that subliminal learning works, but I figure if you're going to try it anyway, just make sure you know what they're telling you. Because it might just be completely batshit insane, and if it did work, you too might become insane. Plus, also, what if they lied, and the message is something else entirely, like, "When you hear the word kettle, you will become a very angry chicken" or "Buy Jell-O brand gelatin"?

[Presence of the Passenger]

I made a tape of all the theorems for my Geometry exam in 8th grade and listened to it as I fell asleep and in the mornings at breakfast. I got 100% and I quite literally knew everything on the test. It's the first and last time that every happened to me.

Of course, it wasn't subliminal. It was just good ol' fashioned repetition during brain rest time.


Do you not think that is was all the time and effort of creating the tape, and saying aloud what you needed to learn, that gave you the knowledge you needed?

I did something similar for chemistry in the fourth grade.

[livius drusus]

Do you not think that is was all the time and effort of creating the tape, and saying aloud what you needed to learn, that gave you the knowledge you needed?

It's very possible. I'm sure it was at least a large part of it, but I listened to that tape twice daily for a couple of weeks, and I definitely knew a lot more at the end than I had in the beginning.

I did something similar for chemistry in the fourth grade.

Cool! Periodic table, by any chance?

[Petra]

Ahhh, g'morning, everyone. :yawn: *streeeetch*


I slept pretty well through the babbling brook. It didn't make me pee, which is a relief. But I also don't feel much like finishing anything. Or even starting anything, for that matter. :shrug:

I do have a strange craving for Frosted Cheerios, though, despite knowing we don't have them in NZ. So, please, if y'all could just send me a small amount of frosted cheerio's each, I'll pay y'all handsomely.


Liv - cool story. I'm going to get Zoe to make tapes for her learning, too, I think. Whether it was the actual making of the tapes or the listening to the tapes when awake that did it doesn't matter if the result was there. And clearly it was, so I'll tell Zoe it's both scientific and magical, and hopefully she will continue to improve in her work. Thanks. :)


I pulled down some more files, too. Some claim to be hypnosis tapes for procrastination, self-esteem, quitting smoking, being successful, etc, etc. I'm a bit scared of the hypnosis ones, though, but I'll give the procrastination one a go later, maybe. And, hopefully, it won't turn me into an angry chicken everytime I hear the word "kettle" or something. :wink:


GodlessWonder, just as a matter of interest, did you palpate an ambiance of inebriation due to the exuberance of your augmented prolixity, or was your burgeoning verbosity a more sobering and scholarly experience?


Anyhoo, what's for breakfast? :chin:

[LadyShea]

I loved hypnosis, it was really relaxing. Nothing to be scared of at all.

[Petra]

What were you hypnotised for, LadyShea?

When I was about 20, I went with my then flatmate to a hynpotherapist for past life regression. Hey, it was 1983, or something, so shuddup! :blush:

Anyway, my flatmate went into a state of hypnosis, but I didn't. I'm one of those that just won't let go, I s'pose. :D


Anyway, I'm just calling in to say that maybe the subliminal messages worked after all. I've had the most productive day! Cleaned windows, dealt with all kinds of tardy stuff, and now I'm pretty much all up-to-date. :cool:

Go figure.

I wonder if the subliminal message played to me all night was something like "get off your arse, you lazy bitch!" :giggle:

[Dingfod]

Past life regression? Tee-hee-hee. :)

[Presence of the Passenger]

As a matter of fact Livius Drusus, it was the periodic table of elements. And the nutso program I decided to go into had us memorize the first 54, plus some randoms like Cesium and Gold.

I did it all in song. Can still remember the chorus now.

AHHH GET IT OUTTA MY HEAD!!! :whup: