What is Sleep Learning?

Students have always pored over their books far into the night, hard working and conscientious in their pursuit of learning. Today it is possible to be equally conscientious without working nearly so hard. It is, in fact, possible to sleep on the subject quite literally and learn it faster and more thoroughly than the most determined application allowed in the past.

This new aid to education is called sleep learning. Sleep learning, a very young science, is based on the receptivity of the subconscious to suggestion and instruction during the sleeping period. Its principles were known to the ancients. In Egypt, priests recited the scriptures to sleeping novitiates in specially built slumber temples, believing that this method would hasten the learning process. In both Egypt and Greece, people brought their problems to such temples.

There, priests whispered helpful suggestions in their ears while they slept. The nocturnal advice dealt with matters of health, general living and the encouragement of