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Revista “Mente y cerebro” (2002-2013) - todounpoco. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness. Learn More While You Sleep So say you haven't followed that first step up there and choose to continue sleeping like other mere mortals. A very minor change in your schedule can still let you use your sleep patterns to your advantage, by making you smarter. Holy Shit, How Can I Do It? No, we're not talking about those scams where they have you put a tape recorder under your pillow and let it teach you Spanish while you're asleep.

Note: "Sleep on it" is simply an expression. They did a study at Harvard that proved this technique works. No, the participants who slept on it and had 24 hours for the information to fester in their brain did the best on the test, while those who only had 20 minutes did the worst. Wasting your time, nerds, go to sleep. How Does It Work? Scientists say the ability your brain has to retain information works in three different ways: acquisition, consolidation and recall. So does this technique work with the "sleep two hours a day" system we mentioned earlier? Big Think | Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders.

The Journal of Neuroscience. Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist.