Study Suggests You Can Learn New Things In Your Sleep

This is an anecdote but it's a fairly convincing one:

I once had a roommate who was a sports fanatic who worked as a server in a sports bar/restaurant at the time. He would listened to sports radio while he slept - usually it was the west coast baseball games (we're in EST) - and he claimed that the broadcasters would basically narrate his dreams of baseball. He knew most the players so if he heard something like, "Bonds hits it to center field, he slides to first and is safe," it's something he could envision realistically.

It's easy to dismiss this as a wild claim he made, but the proof was in the pudding. He could, with confidence, talk about the games the next day before hearing/seeing anything about them. He knew the scores, the big plays, damn near everything as well as if he had watched it on TV. His customers ate it up - they'd love to put him to the test before the highlights would show up on the tube.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/pSM8-KHLOWs/study-suggests-you-can-learn-new-things-in-your-sleep

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