What succes has anyone had with hypnopaedia- (Sleep Learning)?
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Sleep Learning is no good for fact memorization or concepts requiring abstract/analytical thought.\n\nIt is good for suggestions for simple behavior changes, getting an overall deep-down "feel" for a foreign language (still have to be awake for the vocabulary learning and practice part), and so on.
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I remember experiments on this almost forty years ago, and the result was a definite yes. I think it helps more if you concentrate your mind on the tape just before you sleep. For language learning I found a female voice easier to learn from than a male voice, I think because it was softer.\nGood luck in your endeavour.
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I've had really good success with melatonin.  Its a natural substance that's secreted by our pineal glands and regulates our sleep cycles.  I started taking it to help overcome jet lag but now, when I can't "turn my head off" I'll take it and get sleepy within 1/2 an hour and generally sleep very well.  No side effects as its completely natural and already produced for this exact purpose, by our bodies.
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A good book to read about this is Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren. He tells a few stories of people who tried to sustain wakefulness. \n\nOne famous case is the disc jockey Peter Tripp who in 1959 stayed up for more than eight days as a promotional stunt. After a few days, he began to hallucinate, seeing kittens, mice, and cobwebs. He also became paranoid, insisting that an electrician had dropped a hot electrode into his shoe. \n\nIn 1964 high school student Randy Gardner (17) attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time awake -- 260 hours. And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms. But Coren challenges this often repeated fact in his book. Coren describes the day-by-day impact on Randy, as documented by John Ross of the US Navy Medical europsychiatric Research Unit in San Diego. Randy had trouble focusing his eyes on day 2, hallucinations on day 4, and slurred speech and a short attention span by the last day. \n\nCertainly there are drugs such as caffeine, cocaine and amphetamines that keep you awake, but these cannot sustain you for very long.
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I used to take Nexium for hart burn. It said on it that it could case vivid dreams and it did. I also seemed to remember my dreems much better then when I wans not takeing it.
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I had a bad problem with insomnia for many years, and did some research on it.  Here are the things I’ve found that help the most.\n\n1.  Don't take the sleeping pills.  Although they are not addictive in the way we tend to think (you won't jones for them if you miss taking them) they are addictive in the sense that once you have taken them for a while, you will have to take them to get to sleep, but they won't have the same effect they used too.   This is because you tend to not get the necessary REM sleep you need to be rested.  If you must take a sleeping pill, take it well before you go to sleep.  For instance, I prefer to take sleeping pills 2 hours before I go to sleep, so that the pill can get into my system and make me drowsy before I get into bed, then get out of my system (hopefully) early enough that I get some normal sleep.\n\n2.  Try to go to bed at about the same time every night.  You have some wiggle room on this, but if you stay out on Saturday night till 3, it'll be harder to go to sleep at 10PM Sunday.\n\n(Which somewhat contradicts:)\n\n3.  If possible, don't go to bed if you're not sleepy.  Note  - one thing I have read and found to be true is that you have to be awake for 12 hours before you can go back to sleep.  So if you sleep till noon, again, you won't be sleepy at 10PM.  \n\n4.  Don't spend more than 15-30 minutes trying to get to sleep.  If you notice that you've been in bed more than 15 minutes, get out of bed and do something for a while.  Make sure what you do isn't going to make you more hyper; e.g. no exercising or energetic music or writing posts to online debates. \n\n5.  When you go to bed, choose a chore or some other task that you do not want to do and tell yourself that if you are still awake in thirty minutes you will do that task.  Then, if you are still awake, get up and do your chosen task.  This is my favorite suggestion, as it has worked nearly every time I've used it. .\n\nThose are the most useful suggestions I have.  Other things you can try:\n\nBefore you start getting ready for sleep, turn off high energy music and turn the lights down.  I love R&R music, but I went through a period where I had to turn the radio off every night about an hour before I went to bed, or I would be too wired to sleep. And our bodies react to reduced light by producing melatonin which puts us to sleep.  \n\nGet plenty of exercise, but not right before bed.  (Unless you're weird like me - exercise right before bed just puts me to sleep)\n\nAnother suggestion that might work is to relax your body, consciously, one area at a time, starting from your feet. You think about the ball of your left foot and relax it, then the ball of your right foot, then the arch of your left foot, etc. You have to concentrate (pretty hard) on what you are doing\n\nSex *grin*  by yourself or with an SO, it produces a nice soporific chemical, which does a nice job of putting you to sleep.
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Yes, it was not done by a magician and it is not what people tend to picture it to be. Some moron does not sit there and wave something in front of your face and tell you that you are getting very sleepy either :D\n\nI was in a nice room and I was asked to lay down and make myself comfortable. I was told to focus on something that was relaxing to me, there were pictures of nature, and there were flowers and nice things like that. WHile I was focusing I was told to breathe in and out slowly and deeply until every limb of my body was relaxed. then I was told to close my eyes and visualize myself to be wherever it is  I wanted to be. I was hypnotized to relieve mental stress. :)\nYou are basically so relaxed and you are filtering the bullcrap out of your mind so that you can tap into your subconcious. It is the coolest thing . The professional slowly talks you back to "reality" and you come out of feeling so calm and relaxed, it is awesome.  You would be amazed out how you can find the solutions to your problems. \n\nEveryone has their opinions of what it is like or how it feels, but I thought it was great.
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Well, most of the dreams I have early in the night I forget, but I tend to remember the last one or two I had before I wake up.\n\nOne good strategy to improve dream recall is to keep your eyes closed after you wake up, and not to be awoken by surprise (alarm clock, parent, annoying roommate, etc).\n\nAnother neat thing you can do is keep a dream journal. Not only is this useful for boosting dream recall, but it can also help you see patterns in your dreams (dream signs, so to speak). You can then use these to identify when you're dreaming, which can lead to lucid dreaming.
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I go to a hypno-psychotherapist. It helps to have someone to talk to without being judged and getting help in relaxing. Then I de-stress through a hobby, sewing. When I am just about to explode, I drop everything and sit on my sewing chair and turn on the machine. Think also of If they are close by maybe you can call them for coffee or something.
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DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY CONSIDERED! THE ONLY THING THAT I WOULD EVER SUGGEST IS THE CPAP MACHINE PERIOD OR IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS THE BIPAP MACHINE FOR SLEEP APNEA.  THEY KEEP THE AIRWAYS OPEN AND WORK WONDERFULLY! \n\n\n\nI use nightly one of those CPAP devices, it really did give me back about 20+ years of my life, no kidding. You should go to one of those sleep labs and subject yourself to the couple of nights of testing that are really required to fine tune. I swear I fought it with every thing I could possibly bring forth, then last year after emergency hospitalization the nurses advised my wife that I stopped breathing X number of times while I sedated ... "did he have sleep apnea?" Needless to say this hard headed 60 year old I can make it on my own had to seek help!!! OR GET A NEW WIFE I DECIDED THAT THE CLINIC WOULD BE COVERED BY INSURANCE, LAWYERS COST TO MUCH!!!! (JOKE)\n\nI went to the Clinic, which was no bed of roses, but acceptable. BUT the resulting CPAP once I got use to it is absolute WONDERFUL! I honestly feel much younger. The dang thing works, I was kind of wishing that it didn't. BUT I SWEAR THAT IT DOES AND IF YOU THINK THA YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP. I SWEAR YOU WILL NEVER REGRET IT! \n\nWHAT ELSE CAN I SAY!\n\nYOU WILL REALLY FEEL MUCH BETTER!\n\nIF IT IS YOUR HUSBAND!  YOU WILL SLEEP MUCH BETTER AND HE WILL SLEEP MUCH BETTER ALSO !  BUT HE MUST GET USE TO THE DEVICE!  IT WILL TAKE ABOUT 2 WEEKS! AFTER THAT IT TAKE NO CONVINCING HIM TO USE IT ! HE WILL WANT TO USE IT!\n\nMAIN THING IS TO GO TO A SLEEP LAB AN DO AS DIRECTED BY THE SLEEP DOCTOR!\n\nSWEET DREAMS AND GOOD LUCK!\n\n\nAPS
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No, those things which are specified in the website are NOT true. They are subjective reports ONLY, from people who may have tried it. The problem with this is that research on sleep deprivation has shown that after a while, people do feel as though they have adjusted to being sleep deprived and will say that they feel just fine on next to no sleep.\nTheir scores on tests of cognitive functioning beg to differ with this.\nThere is NO real evidence to support the uberman sleep schedule and a lot against it.\nEven websites with information in support of the uberman schedule say that most people drop out, and attribute this to a lack of 'willpower'. \nMore accurately, it's a lack of willingness to undergo sleep deprivation.\nReports of people on the uberman schedule also say that they feel more hungry while on it and need to eat more. The sort of hunger they describe is a strong symptom of extreme sleep deprivation.\n\nI'm not silly enough to have done the uberman schedule, but I have had some pretty long conversations with people who have. I also have a fair bit of training in the psychophysiology of awareness, including the effects of sleep deprivation. That is all that the uberman schedule is.\n\nIt is not advisable for anyone to do the uberman schedule. Not only is it a form of sleep deprivation, what about if you have long classes? Even the anecdotal reports of it say that missing a nap period has some pretty nasty effects. \n\nDon't do it. \nJust don't. It's stupid.
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No, it messes up my sleep patterns.  It did not work.  Now, I sleep fine.  Good luck and God bless.
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yes. for long-term insomnia. it worked.\n\nwhen i was being treated I didn't think it was working, i felt awake, aware and in control - but then after sessions, i noticed that i was sleeping better and better as time went on.\n\nwhat REALLY helped was that she recorded a session with me and gave the tape to me so I could listen to it whenever I needed to.  \n\nI would definitely give it a go for whatever you are looking into it for.\n\nI know people who have tried it to give up smoking and it's worked for them.  To cure long-term insomnia AND smoking, I think it's gotta be able to help LOTS of other stuff too.
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Hypnotism is mind control by another person.It is not a method to improve memory.But now a days  lot of classes are being conducted in Self hypnosis and auto suggestion to tmprove personality and memory.There is scientific evidence regarding wow much they are effective.\nAnother theory is that we dont use bothsides of brain.we use only one.They suggest that if we learn to use bothsides,our memory can be doubled.There are so many courses advertised to learn the method..But how far they are true is not known.
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The posters above me have already offered some good advice - especially the first poster who recommended Valerian Root.\n\nAll I can add to everyone else's advice is this site which explains what you are going through and categorizes the different sleep aids that are available :\n\nhttp://www.medicinenet.com/sleep_aids_and_stimulants/article.htm\n\nGood Luck - I hope you find relief and peaceful sleep soon !
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I have used it to regulate my sleep schedule.  After years of being a night owl, I needed to start getting to bed early for work the next morning.  \n\nLunesta works well if you take it 30-45 minutes before bed time and if you don't fight it.  (I find that an absence of stimulus is highly effective, IE no reading, no TV, no music.)  \n\nAlso, keep in mind that it will affect different people differently.  It says that you should expect at least 8 hours of sleep.  For me, I am groggy if I wake up before then and sometimes it actually takes 9 hours until the effects have completely worn off.  \n\nI find that I get a very good nights sleep with it, and feel no side effects (aside from the groggy feeling if I happen to wake early). \n\nIn addition, I do not use it every night, only when I can't get to sleep naturally.  However, since it is non narcotic, it is less habit-forming than the other pills out there.\n\nIf you use it at midnight, expect to wake up around 9 am.  \n\nGood luck and I hope this was helpful.
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my husband does snore and it seems to have gotten worse over the last year. I had him go to the Dr. for a physical and  the Dr. referred him to a sleep lab where they do whats called a sleep study. Turns out my husband has sleep apnea( this is where he actually stops breathing many times a night) scarey huh? He is going back to the sleep lab in May for another study this time they will be using a special type of breathing mask to see if it helps keep the airway from collapsing while he sleeps.