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Sleep Your Way to Greater Knowledge

Posted August 27, 2012 3:20 PM

From New Scientist - Online news:

The brain doesn't just consolidate memories while we slumber, it can learn about smells too

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08/27/2012 8:11 PM

Frankly, there's not that much that I smell while I'm asleep, that I'd care to remember when I'm awake.

Pavlov's dog is dead.

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08/27/2012 9:09 PM

The only thing worth smelling when I'm asleep is fresh coffee brewing. Apart from that or the smell of the house burning down, don't bother me. I get little quality sleep as it is.

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08/27/2012 9:30 PM

On the heals of this hard-hitting scientific research I have also conducted my own experiment in my new book entitled "Sleep your way to profit".

The short version is that my studies show there is a whopping 87% likelyhood of reducing your income while sleeping at work as opposed to sleeping at home, where not sleeping at all results in an eventual loss of ability to obtain income.

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08/27/2012 9:31 PM

Who collected the data during these experiments?

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08/27/2012 9:49 PM

You don't get everything explained unless you buy the book.

Short answer, the data came to me in a dream, but was thoroughly analysed against previous dreams to ensure accuracy.

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08/27/2012 10:09 PM

Nothing quite like Scientific Method. Why do you think I have four kids, one dog and three cats. That I know of... :-)))

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08/28/2012 12:15 PM

That's not always true! I am encouraged to sleep at my job when there is no work to do. (Night shift fuel monkey in a rail yard)

Trust me you don't want an overly tired guy driving a semi backwards with 7000+ gallons of fuel and less than 3 feet on each side to spare between two trains each hauling 80 - 100 rail cars holding 25,000 - 35,000 gallons each of crude oil or assorted fuels themselves!

I think I make as much money sleeping as I do for being awake! (And when I am awake half of that is spent online or watching TV.)

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08/28/2012 3:19 AM

Zzzzzz...

10-4, good buddy!

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08/28/2012 3:25 AM

No doubt they learned this bit whilst studying the latest crop from the liberal-arts, 'leadership' camp, most of whom couldn't run a tart shop if their lives depended on it...

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08/28/2012 7:41 PM

I can't believe they called Pavlovian sniffing responses "learning" and "knowledge".

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08/28/2012 9:14 PM

Consider the source. :S

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