Just to be clear guys, you still have to study when you are awake. You can't just go "I'm gonna study while I'm asleep". Most people misunderstand sleep-learning as "playing an audiobook while they sleep", while in reality it means reviewing or reliving the moment of you studying.
trueee also he said you need to study and wait 4h before doing it again for this to work.. so if the stars align twice you might archive that cause study once is already a micracle but twice.. man that's some 1B lottery type shit 🤣
It even gets harder, there are also correct and incorrect study strategies and that’s assuming you’re able to eliminate distraction and get into flow state. 🥲
I see this more as a 'how to make your studying more permanent' as opposed to 'how to study in your sleep'. I can see it working as going to class in the day, doing chores and having fun after classes and briefly reviewing the materials before you head to bed.
Yeah, dr K did a bit of clickbait here promising a strategy for putting off the boring things for the part of the day when you don't have consciousness to tell you it's boring and you don't like it.
This is why, as a college student, I refuse to “cram and jam” information before a test, and will instead schedule one to two hours of study time per day, every day, at the same time, and not study at all outside of those hours. It also helps me to study in the late morning or early afternoon, so that my brain has time to process the information while I’m still awake before processing again while I sleep. So far, I’m getting A’s and B’s in college thanks to this technique, and for reference I was a C-average student in K-12, who consistently failed math and science courses. Nowadays, I’m just as good at math and science as I am art and writing, and I attribute part of my success to my “relaxed” study habits.
Happy for you, but I'm sick of hearing this "method" that all how to study books do. I am sure it doesn't work for 99% of people. Even if you do deep work for 2 hours a day as I do, it is very unlikely that is all study you'll have to do. In most degrees there are a lot of projects, exams and tasks. Perhaps it's possible in some education system, but for mine I find it quite unrealistic unless you are a genious or skip tasks. I've read books like "How To Become a Straight-A Student" and all conditions were extremely idealistic.
This is hilarious to me because I would utilize sleep all the time as a child to process my emotions. Whenever I'd get really upset or emotional about something I'd say (loudly) that I was going to bed and just about every-time I'd wake up from my nap I would feel so much better. It's pretty cool to learn there's actual science to this method.
Especially in college, and even now that I'm out of college, I would go to sleep at night and solve my programming assignment problems in my sleep, then wake up and code the solution that I had in my sleep.
@@lemonke5341 Lmao that's kinda what it felt like at the time, interesting to see this video now explaining a bit more of what is actually happening... One contradiction to the video though: Dr K says that weed will negatively effect this process... My time in college makes me think differently lmao, but 🤷♂ gg I guess? lol
This was me with calculus. I would feel completely lost in the class, but somehow the day before a midterm, all the material for the unit would start to make sense and somehow I'd end up getting an A.
@@TyrannicToe56 I’m not trying to claim it was my instant go to method of solving problems, I certainly put in the work while I was awake. But some of my harder problems that I’d have to solve with my code that I’d spend hours obsessing over during the day would inevitably get solved in my sleep. Not something I would say I planned, especially not in college, but I have found that this often was what happened. Believe it or not that’s on you I suppose.
When I was in high school I actually dreamt about a solution of an equation. Instead of solving a 4th, 3rd degree equation by force which is complicated, I dreamt I draw the graphic of them, which would help me to find the points and values of interest, and I literally solved a math problem sleeping.
@@shahan484 Progressive Muscle Relaxation is actually studied and it's the first part of Yoga Nidra. And even if it is studied less than other treatments, you are belittling the experiences of people that worked for them.
@@sabbasofa I have the Guide to Mental Health and found Yoga Nidra. At the end of the video, Doctor K says we are now moving to the second part of the Yoga Nidra. But where is it? How to find it in the Meditation Index section? Does it mean that I should just repeat some phrase after meditation, and that's it?
The unlearning makes so much sense as to when my life was in more chaos my memory went to crap and the more messy my life is the more likely I am to forget things
While taking my bachelor's degree sleep became my secret weapon in studying. I remember reviewing of my Greek vocabulary in my dreams and I'm pretty sure memory consolidation and sorting in my sleep was what got me through my paper on middle Platonism - without that three days was not enough time to absorb all the information from scratch and write a 10 page cohesive paper on the subject. Studying right before bed with a quick review in the morning was super-effective in preparing for exams (I would type out my notes into a master document eariler in the day and then read/highlight the document before bed).
Wow! I owned a business framing house and used to solve very complex framing problems. Like points of reference, orders to place things like key rafters, and even the math in my sleep. Never new how I did it or why I could wake up and have all the math in my head and a plan for accomplishing these tasks. Makes perfect sense and will begin using these methods to further my study’s in the healthcare field. Thank you
I've been practicing Yoga Nidra daily since the beginning of the year. I'm an electrical engineer and recently studied for and took my Fundementals of engineering exam, which covers everything from an engineering undergrad. I took it almost 5 years after undergrad. After reading through a lot of reddit threads and other places where people talked about how much they studied, I figured I needed 3-4 months of studying or about 150-300 hrs. I studied 2-3hours daily with yoga nidra after each session. I ended up taking the exam after just 5 weeks or about 70 hours of studying, and passed on my first try!
@chaudiep8274 about 17-30 minutes each time, once or twice a day. I actually just passed my PE exam (8 hr exam, even harder) and approached it with a similar study method and timeline. I actually did yoga nidra during the lunch break to refresh my brain!
the whole “prioritizing deearning” deal really explains why i had to drop out of school twice. i kinda knew this intriniscally, but dealing with an ongoing traumatic situation made it very hard to worry about school
To me this approximates to invoking secondary processing of the mind while being in a state of deep meditation. It's directing not the conscious mind, but the kind that thinks creatively for you. It allows you to realize things you never realized before and learn in the process, though it might require some effort at the start. It's a good way to train the part of your brain responsible for that kind of thinking. The more you do it, the more creative you'll become in your thinking, and you'll learn and realize things faster than before, because at some point it will turn on at full power mode unconsciously as you get more used to actively using it and handling it.
this sounds very interesting! do you have any mental exercises or specific protocols you use to train this part of the brian like you’re describing? Also how much progress do you think you have made after training this part of your brain?
i think when u mean the part of ur mind that thinks creatively for u, u mean diffuse mode thinking. there’s a really nice MOOC called learning how to learn that really defines the distinction between two types of learning/thinking: diffuse and focused. diffuses is where you can really get those creative breakthroughs
@@sovereignknight9290 Not a mental protocol, but, one thing that may work is opening up multiple windows all over the place on your computer, and listening to a podcast or a RUclips video at the same time, while drawing or writing stuff, at first ti will be hard to concentrate because your mind will want to go to a focused state, but at some point you'll see how you can control that inner part, and then the multiple distractions lead your mind to wander and reach a certain creative state which powers up the inner mind!
Loved this! We definitely need more videos on dreams & sleep in general! My dreams are heavily tied to my mental health, even sometimes triggering episodes, or triggering self growth and acceptance. Dreams are powerful things!
From what I am hearing here the opposite should also be true, if you have a stressful situation coming up e.g. exams/family get together/surgery, you could do everything to remove mental clutter so that more of the pent up stress/anxiety/emotions gets processed while you sleep which would allow you to feel calmer and more prepared for the stressful situation. I might not have the best example to hand but you understand what I'm getting at. Since it is a part of our sleep cycles I'd assume there could situations or times in an individual's life where there would be benefit to utilising sleep to process emotions. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong Dr. K but I see this as a tool for weighing up what would be the most valuable to achieve in your sleep. I'd imagine only using one or the other would be to miss the point entirely.
I’ve kind felt like this is whats been going on with me. I started a job right after getting kicked out and emotionally abandoned by family. The tasks are incredibly simple but I’m forgetting even the most basic organization skills I would’ve got down in a day.
i remember back when i was studying for my SAT exam i would sleep and have a problem/question in my head (i dont remember if i made it up or i saw it before) and i would solve it in my sleep then wake up and check my answer and it would be correct, honestly freaked me out a bit but would be cool to re-experience it, ended up doing well on the test too which made me feel like having my dream be like that was a good sign and that i was studying well, super interesting vid lmao
I don't do yoga, but I read a while back that sleeping consolidates memory. So I always do any memorization tasks at night before I go to bed. It's double duty, since practicing flash cards always makes me sleepy anyway. lol. So I get a great sleep, and hopefully it's been helping me memorize stuff better.
If I want to learn in sleep 1. Yoga nidra before bed or in morning. It will allow my brain to pick what to store and identity with 2. Studdy the same thing twice a day, at least 4 hours apart. Don’t fill up my brain with crappy stuff, 3. Vent emotions, but do not vent the knowledge j want to keep 4. Watch out for caffeine and alchhol intake 5. Closer I am to a “deadline” the better it will become.
When I was a stage actor in college, many people had an incredibly tough time getting "off book" which just means knowing your lines. I actually starred in a 2 and half hour production where I literally was off stage for a brief minute during the entire runtime and yet I was easily the quickest one off book though I had most of the lines, and when others would trip up I could even give them THEIR line which really confused and possibly annoyed them as well. And I did all this as a prolific stoner who wasn't necessarily super diligent or disciplined about studying and stuff. It was a mix of the repetition of rehearsal, where again I was always on so my workload was much bigger than other cast members, and recording rehearsal audio so I could listen back during sleep. Literally within a week I had the whole play in my head and could actually do any character, at least lines wise lol.
Thank you for everything Dr K! I realise that this might be outside your target demographic, but if you could make some content with advice for neurodivergent parents I would really appreciate it. When the bride was heavily pregnant I realised how much my own father not dealing with his "depression" adversely effected me, so I tried to get diagnosed and treated for depression. I ended up with a diagnosis of Schizoid Personality Disorder with autistic traits. With the benefit of hindsight I see a lot of those traits in my father. I see a counsellor regularly with the goal of breaking the cycle and not damaging my daughter the way I was damaged, but I recognise how little research there is in SzPD and how difficult this is. The bride also had previously been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, but I suspect that its closer to an obsessive compulsive disorder partly being caused by being raised by a neat freak security conscious single mother. If you have any advice for breaking these cycles of unhealthy behaviours and giving our daughter the best shot at a healthy upbringing I would really appreciate it!
I have definitely unintentionally done this prior to a test and I agree that it occurs perhaps from the stress and anxiety associated with a deadline. Only speculation, but perhaps the anxiety stops you from going too deep....??
My experience with yoga nidra has been very positive. I usually do it when I've overworked myself and want a reset to get better ideas or when I'm studying and start feeling tired. Sometimes I get into that state between sleep and wakefulness, sometimes I fall asleep and other times I'm awake but almost every time yoga nidra makes me feel nice and refreshed after 20-60 minutes. It was really interesting to hear more about it. :)
8:50 Yoga Nidra 1 week - 3 month. What is it 6:10? 9:20 Study small section twice on the same day. Have 4 hours apart(break), then study again of the same section. 10:45 Get rid of any negative emotions before sleeping (mediation) but don't write down material of learning to fill up the "ram".
I started with lucid dreaming and then yoga classes then meditation more broadly then wound up at Yoga Nidra… I came to this video to see what I could learn, and I’m shocked that what Dr. K described is basically the path I’ve already wound up putting myself on… obv still did learn a few small things but wow very validating!
For whatever reason a few days ago I decided to research what happens at marine boot camp. I can’t remember the dreams that well but I do remember waking up at exactly 4am.
This is really interesting! I was recently tested for narcolepsy, and the doctor that did my sleep study said I might have to redo the test because he said I never actually went down into a “deep/REM sleep,” and when I did it wasn’t for very long. I’ve had this problem even as a kid. I was always a very light sleeper. I often times talked and walked in my sleep too. I have tried cutting out caffeine, I’ve tried only using my bed for sleeping, but I never got good restful sleep. I was always groggy and tired throughout the day. This would explain a lot of my memory problems. If I never got restful sleep, my brain couldn’t process the information. The only way I can get decent sleep is with sleep aids. Melatonin or CBD was the best. I tried sleeping meds, but I tended to sleep walk more when I was on them, so I stopped for my own safety.
Have you ever tried taking GABA combined with L-Theanin, or L-Tryptophan, or Ashwaghanda? I‘m currently experimenting with those things to improve my sleep. Especially the GABA/Theanin thingy seems to have a good potential when looking at studies.
Thank you for explaining this process in detail. Its similar to non sleep deep rest, first heard it when Dr Huberman was giving an explanation about it. It is truly relaxing and refreshing.
bro sleeping is so magical, we get stronger while we sleep (gym recovery) we get smarter, we process emotions and feel better, we heal from any sickness or infection, what the hell
There's no magic, it's biology, even the stuff we don't understand yet. But I agree that the fact nature has found a way to use dead time as an advantage is awesome
@@starmorpheus That's what I was saying, like if organism weren't using sleep for something other than recovery from physical exhaustion, it would be 'dead time'
I’m a medical student. I am not a hard working student, but whenever I take a test, I would never pull a all nighter. I would study and then sleep early. Then in the morning I will remember much efficiently. When the exam period starts, first thing I would do is actually sleep.. md get my fked up sleeping schedule in place( sleep early wake up early) Find it much more effective in my studies
I have always thought that I am better at a thing after trying it, sleeping, and then trying again the next day. It's like I went through what I learned during sleep and come back more focused.
True enough about writing and releasing info. But, there is a difference in the purpose of the writing. If I write to put something on a to-do list or calendar, yes it goes out of my head. I depend on the calendar. However if I write with the intention learning, it does help things to sink in for me. I guess the intention has something to do with it. This is an interesting video. And we are all different although there are general things that work for the masses.
There's a competitive programming who has a video about co-opting the intuition. It feels quite related. The reason is that unless you convince yourself that it's important, it won't be as incentivised as when say you have a due date.
I learnt Yoga Nidra when I was in Catholic seminary school but actually I did use sleeping to help my studies ever since I was a kid. And yes, I also have to say there's a correlation between negative emotion and your dreams (hence the negative emotion and your quality of study) I always hate it when I'm under stress and I noticed since I was a kid that I can't study well by cramming but it's better for me to review what I've learned before I sleep. I also napping (especially when I was in school) so, review 1 is quick memorising mentally what I've just learnt at school and the second is before bed. What I do between that time? I do my hobbies instead and I always have alone time when I'm just daydreaming and zoning out everything in my mind then focused on what I will study. It's become even clearer after I learnt Yoga Nidra. In fact, many times I dreamt like I already know and already write what I have to do in the morning. So, when I wake up, I just need to do exactly what I've done in my dreams. This really help me in my college when I have to do my part time job. But again, you have to focusing your mind first on what you want to study during sleep, reviewing mentally what you've learnt for a day, zoning out, relaxing, and then "sleep"/meditate. And about negative emotions. When you have negative emotions, I noticed that my mind is stressed (hence can't think clearly and can't study). So either I have to nap or daydreaming and zoning out (a lot) to clear my emotions. I even have a period when my marks were dive down so low when I was bullied. At that time, I'm not sleeping to review my study, I'm sleeping to survive from my own emotions and trauma (so, lot of nightmares). But then, when I learnt Yoga Nidra, I realised that I can use same basic to heal my trauma in my sleep. So I did jurnaling on my negative emotions and nightmares before I sleep and on some nights when I don't have any difficult class in that day or the day after I'm focusing my mind to review my trauma but reliving it from a much positive light. After I put a rest on my trauma, I can have my sleep study even clearer than before.
The timing of this was impeccable for me.. i just started studying for a new IT certification to get a promotion at work. Gonna try this out because i usually suck at studying and retaining all the information. Give me gear to program or troubleshoot and i can do it all day... Tests and studying what things are.... Terrible
bruh so heard dr k previously explain this, but was looking for something more in depth to actually grasp how to learn with yoga nidra, and sankalpas. This is a total blessing
At around 2020, in lockdown where every student just stayed in their rooms, i wad obsessed with this game called mordhau, it had intuitive and flowing combat that anyone could easily understand and i was instantly immersed. What i didn’t know was every night i thought about the movement if the swords and playing the actual game before i went into deep sleep. i was doing yoganidra without even knowing it. I became better at the game and people thought that i was on a smurf account when i only had 100 hours in. I can definitely vouch that yoganidra will work even for games and/or sports that require some mental acquisition.
Damn, I've been doing this since a teenager and it worked but as I've gotten older I play "stressful" games at night, never thought those negative emotions from gaming would actually mess up what I learned that day. Great to know!!
I've been doing exactly this for a long time, but it came from necessity more than anything else. Turns out video game addiction and binge watching youtube don't exactly promote studying so what I'd do is try to get an overview of study material a day before the test and leave it to my subconscious to fill in the gaps (because I pay attention in class the information is usually in there somewhere). What ends up happening after I wake up is that there's a solid structure of the study material, but with gaps. Those gaps get filled before the test when everyone is full of stress collectively reviewing the material. Yes it's not perfect, but I get very good results for little time of actual studying. The deadline Dr. K mentioned is the main driving force for me, otherwise the technique doesn't work nearly as effectively.
I sort of did not understand the protocol and would appreciate help: 1. First session: Learn the material in question 2. Second session: 4 hours after first session you should revise the material without taking notes 3. Before Yoga Nidra and/or sleep: Process negative emotions. Do not be influenced by psychoactive substances 4. Yoga nidra: When? I did not understand this
I like to use notes and doodles as a way to categorize different ideas so then when I think of that doodle, it can remind me of the information I need to remember. I have been able to like remember so much material and like its so cool to see it work.
I remember once during lucid dreaming i've experienced a sudden slowdown of everything, like slowing down a tape in a recorder, and all colors and lighting and stuff gradually yet quickly disappearing as if i was going to wake up in a few seconds, but without this familiar "warmth" that goes with that. Also, i've felt how it became more difficult to think and come up with things and kinda gave up. I am not sure HOW, but i feel like what i was remembering is actually a transition from REM to deeper sleep. Also yeah i remember getting to hypnagogic state, and from that state to REM, very well. It's the kind of thing that might startle at first and is really weird to talk about with people who didn't practice it, but once a person gets into it, it just "fits", and is actually a very fun state to be in.
I can’t believe I just finally learned 13 years later why I was having nightmares since high school. Just in time too. 🌳🍃 keeps my nightmares away and I just ran out because I can’t afford to get anymore so I’m mentally preparing for my nightmares to come back
Thanks for the video, Dr.K. Your content is awesome! I have some questions tho... 1. Since I want to free my RAM of negative emotions, should I frontload most of my stressful responsibilities for earlier on in the day so there is more time to process? 2. You said not to try and write stuff down during the second portion of studying later in the day. How should I study during that period? Does solving problems or working through examples or even talking to other people affect that positively/negatively? Thanks!
My profesor told us about "reading while asleep" technique. He said it was about leaving the book under your pillow. But the extra step was to briefly look at what's written in the book about an hour before sleep. It helps me learn but could make an improvement.
I think I've accidentally gotten into the yoganidra (sorry I probably butchered that) before. On multiple occasions, I've gotten stuck in this middle point between dreaming and being awake where I could see myself and my surroundings in the real world while I was sleep walking. At the same time, it's like my dream was being superimposed over my senses so that I was sensing what was happening irl and in my dream simultaneously. This is usually a response to stress and lack of sleep for me. I wasn't controlling my body irl but all I was doing was pacing. I vividly remember talking to my Nana while this happened one time, then when I was fully awake and aware, she confirmed coming downstairs to see me pace then have a convo
How I know Dr. K actually comes from an Indian background: instead of using a hard "s" sound in the middle of words, he uses a soft "z" sound. For example: "BaSic" becomes "Bazic". Verrrry Indian 😄 Love you so much, Dr. K! You're doing amazing work!!! 💖
What has been interesting for me to find out is that as you recall memories, you might change details. So you alter your own memories, might misremember etc.. So for important things I tend to always write stuff down.
Don’t know about “hypno-yogic” - as result of my debilitating insomnia i would enter HYPNOGOGIC states often. It’s a hallucinatory hell at times- but _sometimes_ i would be lulled into a dream but then jolt awake and realise my dream was just real things around me in the moment. Usually people staring at me strangely. I would fall asleep with my eyes open. It’s more weird for others to witness me in that state 👁 That being said, i am treated for adhd and insomnia now and ALWAYS find sleep learning an exciting ability i have gained ❤
@@Ran_Do thanks, i probably just forgot the spelling and was using my linguistic memory to spell it. It has been a long time since i needed to look it up and assess what i was experiencing
9:42 "cover chapter 1 to 2, take a break for 4 hours, then cover chapter 1 to 2 again", does he mean we should recall what we learnt in chapter 1 to 2 after 4 hours break or we can learn more details/ or what we missed about chapter 1 to 2 in the 2 session? I want to apply it but not clear about this point 😅
For the deadline part, I feel like it's because you are filled with more things in a time period if the things you are doing get less time to do. So you need to try hard on every bit of brain cells in order to fulfil the mission. Maybe a full-up schedule and goal of one day could help? Doctor K says to read two chapters a day and revise 4 hours later, but to the student who doesn't have a part-time job the rest of the day probably is filled with random stimulants. So I do three chapters and a few leisure reading it works really well.
As an actor, I know this "deadline mode", for me it is 1-2 weeks before the premier. Then is, when the role "hits". I often am quite slow in actually finding the role, but for some reason, in this time, somewhere, it just hits, and suddenly, from one day to the next, my body reacts, and I can play the role. Before that, I am kinda useless, after that, I am quite good.
So when I am studying or doing something very complex, I have the dream about it and then I understand it. Like when they took four of us from the street and taught us how to use IntelliJ, Git and write in Typescript with some FreeMarker tossed in, during 3 months. After two months I had that dream and it saved me from drowning.
Also very interesting that you mention writing as a way of purging your working memory, removing it from your mind. !! Have suspected this for a long time. For me, making a “list” is counterproductive unless that list or reminder is in a place i can not avoid seeing repetitively. If i have a problem it is best not to meditate on it or write about it, that is a guarantee i will find resolution and freedom from the problem and not “retain it” to process it further!! Your insights are flooding my life with assistance and validation! By one so young, so much wisdom, shared. How did you develop a passion to help others ? 👽
I have this very weird experience when studying for one of my last math exams in highschool. I did the test weeks while having the flu and studying the day before the math exam. I almost missed the entire semester and had to cram in all of it in one day which I almost did, except for this one stochastic calculation technique which I, from exhaustion, feher and feeling like shit, simply couldn't fit inside my brain anymore. So I never consciously learned that technique and went to sleep that night, knowing well that I'll fail the task the next day. So I go through the exam and when time came to solve the task which required that technique, I somehow knew what to do, although I couldn't consciously read the text describing the technique in the textbook the day prior. I would just read the sentences without being able to recall a single word right after, but knew how it worked after having a night of mediocre sleep. I can also recall being a child and my mom teaching me stuff, me not understanding it after getting exhausted and miraculously having the solution to it after having night of sleep.
This makes a lot of sense. I did this all throughout my schooling. I was never the top of my class but always one of the top of my friend group. I also never took notes and never really put much thought into school. On occasion I’d review material at home but rarely. I mostly just audibly paid attention in class and my brain would process it enough to understand the material and that was it. I assume once I slept that info would be processed and moved into my long term memory because I literally wouldn’t write anything down except for like vocabulary. I hardly put any conscious effort into school because all of the learning was handled subconsciously while asleep. That’s cool.
In one of your talks you talked about that if we wait for something outside of us to force us to do something We will do it but we won't do it otherwise So if i must go to gym being overweight to save my life i will go (not the case just example) But if my life is not at risk anymore i will probably stop And here In this talk you say that deadlines push you to do the work (learning etc) But a week ahead of time you can't do it , so is it a skill we should develop? to do things that are beneficial to us although there is no rush to it? Or can we use some pressure in certain ereas of life? Is that free will? Hh idk that's what came up
I feel like a lot of the sleep learning I have done has been aimed at video games. Whenever I was unhappy about my performance in a video game I played earlier that evening, the bad games would occupy my mind as I was falling asleep and the next day I would usually perform much better in similar in-game situations.
I did this in high school as I HATED having to be physically put in studying, so I recorded myself narrating my notes, lessons and books and I listened to it like a podcast, awake and while sleeping. I let my subconscious do the work. I might have not gotten all excellents but I never failed an exam and never "studying" once. I learned that very quickly at like 14 that if I payed attention in class, I would remember most stuff and I would only need a little recap, worked fine for me but because I have an excellent memory
So I write classical music. One time I was working really hard writing 6-8 hours a day and I was struggling to work out this one fugal passage. I went to bed that night and all my dreams were just working through this passage I had been struggling with. In my dream I figured out how to make it work logically and I got up and wrote it down like it was nothing.
After a month of following this i can self report that I did seem to retain more information early on in the month when I was studying. I continue with the journaling and meditation throughout the month and have noticed an improvement in my overall well being. I'm still on occasion anxious and I did let up on actively sitting down and studying as intensely as I did earlier in the month. Overall going to keep going and see how it helps in the linger term.
I don't know if it's the same as what you're talking about, but for quite a few years now, when I sleep it's like lucid dreaming but with less consiousness, like it's more like I'm watching a movie, I can't interfere but I know it's a dream
I code alot, sometimes when i get stuck on a problem, i literally dream about it and usually get my answer, it's almost magical, like someone is doing your job while you're resting
I did it yesterday and an interesting thing happned. It was right after i bought street fighter 6, so i played all day long. And when i did the yoga nidra i could see, not literally as a screen but close, the game play when i had my eyes close. The combos, the movements and i could until a certain point control my character (guile). I also was reacting to the things the enemy was doing. Like, my thumbs were jerking and moving like my brain was literally revising what i learned. Very cool
It's actually the first time I've got to hear and learn about Delearning and it's something i wish i got to know a decade ago (yes I'm a guy with regrets and waste potential) knowing something like this would have been even more life changing
Hi doc K, i was recenttly diagnosed as Autistic and ADHD, as a 31y. I can only sleep with quetiapine. Saw this vídeo and was realy happy and looking foward for trying, but got crushed with The endinh 😢
Hi, I really appreciate your work and your style, you really do a great job explaining things! Could you please consider making a video where you explain dissociative identity disorder, or "dating someone with DID", kinda similar to what you did with BPD? I would really appreciate that, thank you!
Speaking of sleeping, please make a video on how to fix your sleep: how to easily sleep, techniques to fall asleep quicker, etc. I’ve been struggling to sleep earlier and wake up earlier for a very long time. At night i sleep so late and i wake up early in the morning still feeling tired and sleepy. And because of that my health got worse too. Please help Dr.K
Had this happen to me all the time when I obsessed over something or when I went mushroom hunting. Feels absolutely fantastic. I guess I'll Start trying to trigger it intentionally
0:32: 💡 Sleep is important for memory consolidation and learning. 2:57: 💡 During sleep, our brain goes through a process called d-learning where it focuses on getting rid of certain kinds of information, especially emotional experiences. 5:58: 🧘 The speaker learned a meditation technique called Yoga Nidra, which allows for conscious awareness while in a deep state of relaxation. 8:29: 🧘 Cultivating important things through Yoga Nidra and optimizing learning and delearning processes. 11:13: 💡 Writing things down empties our short-term memory, which is not ideal for studying in our sleep. 13:44: 🧠 To be cognitively productive during sleep, practice Yoga Nidra, optimize your RAM by studying the same thing twice a day with a gap of at least four hours, vent emotions before sleep, and limit caffeine intake. 16:09: 🧘♂ The speaker suggests using marijuana, alcohol, and psychoactive substances close to a deadline to enhance productivity, based on personal experience and extrapolation from scientific research and yogic techniques. Recap by Tammy AI
1. Fill up your short-term memory. They get consolidated during sleep. Study the same thing ~4 hours apart, twice a day, before sleep. Avoid filling with junk. 2. Our brain prioritises de-learning negative experiences over memory consolidation. Trauma may be consciously repressed but will be processed during sleep (e.g. nightmares). Vent before sleeping. 3. Yoga Nidra? Inducing a trance-like state of being consciously aware while sleeping? 4. Don't write the things you want to learn down before sleeping! Doing so "empties" your short-term memory, so that information is less likely to be retained during sleep. 5. Be careful of the substances you take in. Chemically inducing a deep sleep, for example, might reduce brain activity and hinder learning. Some substances also interfere with sleep stages. 6. Your mind learns better when deadlines are coming up (when it knows it is important?)
What I get from this video is that you have to conquer your conscious awakened state but go find improvement in the time where the body is unaware but the mind is free to roam in the state of deep sleep
Great video! However, it wasn't clear if Yoga Nidra should specifically be practiced right before sleep or at any relaxed time. Could you clarify the best time to practice it for maximum benefit?
Eh 🤷♀️ He said he cant teach us the method as it would be a 30min video but there are guides. Looking at the description I didn't see a link. So I guess we have to be in his program
I am a tactile learner, so if I see it or hear the information I feel like it doesnt get processed. I think you can write things down before bed if it helps to review it in your mind and slows your mind down so you can actually memorize it. Especially helpful if youre neurodivergent.
Thanks for sharing this information but I think a key point that wasn't touched was what is our goal during yoga nidra. We practice yoga nidra to be conscious while asleep, but what do we do in this conscious state? Do we study more while conscious and in yoga nidra?
In college I began reading papers for my essay, cutting quotes I might need in advance and getting out 10 pages two days before because the topic was primed in my mind. Before that it was so painful to get them done well.
I didn't realize "I'm basically a screw up in life and wanna start being a chad version of myself" was an acceptable therapeutic goal, but man does that sum it up lol.
I read a book about Iron will or something. It discussed how the final minutes before you sleep you should be thinking abou lt the things you want not about how bad your days was
As soon as im done with my Bachelor Thesis I will engage in this! Awesome! I Love evolving my mind. And I need to get Off of Shit. Just holds me back. Thanks for making me realize (once again).
Just to be clear guys, you still have to study when you are awake. You can't just go "I'm gonna study while I'm asleep". Most people misunderstand sleep-learning as "playing an audiobook while they sleep", while in reality it means reviewing or reliving the moment of you studying.
trueee also he said you need to study and wait 4h before doing it again for this to work.. so if the stars align twice you might archive that cause study once is already a micracle but twice.. man that's some 1B lottery type shit 🤣
It even gets harder, there are also correct and incorrect study strategies and that’s assuming you’re able to eliminate distraction and get into flow state. 🥲
I see this more as a 'how to make your studying more permanent' as opposed to 'how to study in your sleep'.
I can see it working as going to class in the day, doing chores and having fun after classes and briefly reviewing the materials before you head to bed.
Kinda pointless then... 🤷
Yeah, dr K did a bit of clickbait here promising a strategy for putting off the boring things for the part of the day when you don't have consciousness to tell you it's boring and you don't like it.
This is why, as a college student, I refuse to “cram and jam” information before a test, and will instead schedule one to two hours of study time per day, every day, at the same time, and not study at all outside of those hours. It also helps me to study in the late morning or early afternoon, so that my brain has time to process the information while I’m still awake before processing again while I sleep.
So far, I’m getting A’s and B’s in college thanks to this technique, and for reference I was a C-average student in K-12, who consistently failed math and science courses. Nowadays, I’m just as good at math and science as I am art and writing, and I attribute part of my success to my “relaxed” study habits.
Thanks for this comment, it actually helped me.
Damn
Happy for you, but I'm sick of hearing this "method" that all how to study books do. I am sure it doesn't work for 99% of people. Even if you do deep work for 2 hours a day as I do, it is very unlikely that is all study you'll have to do. In most degrees there are a lot of projects, exams and tasks. Perhaps it's possible in some education system, but for mine I find it quite unrealistic unless you are a genious or skip tasks. I've read books like "How To Become a Straight-A Student" and all conditions were extremely idealistic.
@@AnimeOpenningEndingI think this person man’s these are the hours they use to study per course , not all of their college class crammed in
Thanks for that comment!
This is hilarious to me because I would utilize sleep all the time as a child to process my emotions. Whenever I'd get really upset or emotional about something I'd say (loudly) that I was going to bed and just about every-time I'd wake up from my nap I would feel so much better. It's pretty cool to learn there's actual science to this method.
Hrh! “I’ll sleep on that”
“See how i feel about it in the morning” ❤
"I take a nap right here" that little girl on the beach was onto something!! I gotta give into that more maybe
When you are someone who underwent depression the need was your friend and refuge
Especially in college, and even now that I'm out of college, I would go to sleep at night and solve my programming assignment problems in my sleep, then wake up and code the solution that I had in my sleep.
Bro has cheats on
@@lemonke5341 Lmao that's kinda what it felt like at the time, interesting to see this video now explaining a bit more of what is actually happening... One contradiction to the video though: Dr K says that weed will negatively effect this process... My time in college makes me think differently lmao, but 🤷♂ gg I guess? lol
This was me with calculus. I would feel completely lost in the class, but somehow the day before a midterm, all the material for the unit would start to make sense and somehow I'd end up getting an A.
Yeah this sounds like total BS
@@TyrannicToe56 I’m not trying to claim it was my instant go to method of solving problems, I certainly put in the work while I was awake. But some of my harder problems that I’d have to solve with my code that I’d spend hours obsessing over during the day would inevitably get solved in my sleep. Not something I would say I planned, especially not in college, but I have found that this often was what happened. Believe it or not that’s on you I suppose.
"SLEEP ON IT", really works. 😴
My brain will wake me up with any unanswered questions, and sometimes with startling, unexpected answers.
When I was in high school I actually dreamt about a solution of an equation. Instead of solving a 4th, 3rd degree equation by force which is complicated, I dreamt I draw the graphic of them, which would help me to find the points and values of interest, and I literally solved a math problem sleeping.
I think it'd useful to have some the Yoga Nidra information (or links to the info) in the description! It sounds very interesting!
Exactly this.
For people who have the Guide to Mental Health - You can find Yoga Nidra in the Meditation Index.
Yoga is not considered scientific mental help....
@@shahan484 Progressive Muscle Relaxation is actually studied and it's the first part of Yoga Nidra.
And even if it is studied less than other treatments, you are belittling the experiences of people that worked for them.
@@sabbasofa I have the Guide to Mental Health and found Yoga Nidra. At the end of the video, Doctor K says we are now moving to the second part of the Yoga Nidra. But where is it? How to find it in the Meditation Index section? Does it mean that I should just repeat some phrase after meditation, and that's it?
The unlearning makes so much sense as to when my life was in more chaos my memory went to crap and the more messy my life is the more likely I am to forget things
While taking my bachelor's degree sleep became my secret weapon in studying. I remember reviewing of my Greek vocabulary in my dreams and I'm pretty sure memory consolidation and sorting in my sleep was what got me through my paper on middle Platonism - without that three days was not enough time to absorb all the information from scratch and write a 10 page cohesive paper on the subject. Studying right before bed with a quick review in the morning was super-effective in preparing for exams (I would type out my notes into a master document eariler in the day and then read/highlight the document before bed).
Wow! I owned a business framing house and used to solve very complex framing problems. Like points of reference, orders to place things like key rafters, and even the math in my sleep. Never new how I did it or why I could wake up and have all the math in my head and a plan for accomplishing these tasks. Makes perfect sense and will begin using these methods to further my study’s in the healthcare field. Thank you
I've been practicing Yoga Nidra daily since the beginning of the year. I'm an electrical engineer and recently studied for and took my Fundementals of engineering exam, which covers everything from an engineering undergrad. I took it almost 5 years after undergrad. After reading through a lot of reddit threads and other places where people talked about how much they studied, I figured I needed 3-4 months of studying or about 150-300 hrs. I studied 2-3hours daily with yoga nidra after each session. I ended up taking the exam after just 5 weeks or about 70 hours of studying, and passed on my first try!
Can I ask how long each session was?
@chaudiep8274 about 17-30 minutes each time, once or twice a day. I actually just passed my PE exam (8 hr exam, even harder) and approached it with a similar study method and timeline. I actually did yoga nidra during the lunch break to refresh my brain!
the whole “prioritizing deearning” deal really explains why i had to drop out of school twice. i kinda knew this intriniscally, but dealing with an ongoing traumatic situation made it very hard to worry about school
To me this approximates to invoking secondary processing of the mind while being in a state of deep meditation. It's directing not the conscious mind, but the kind that thinks creatively for you. It allows you to realize things you never realized before and learn in the process, though it might require some effort at the start. It's a good way to train the part of your brain responsible for that kind of thinking. The more you do it, the more creative you'll become in your thinking, and you'll learn and realize things faster than before, because at some point it will turn on at full power mode unconsciously as you get more used to actively using it and handling it.
this sounds very interesting! do you have any mental exercises or specific protocols you use to train this part of the brian like you’re describing? Also how much progress do you think you have made after training this part of your brain?
i think when u mean the part of ur mind that thinks creatively for u, u mean diffuse mode thinking. there’s a really nice MOOC called learning how to learn that really defines the distinction between two types of learning/thinking: diffuse and focused. diffuses is where you can really get those creative breakthroughs
@@sovereignknight9290 Not a mental protocol, but, one thing that may work is opening up multiple windows all over the place on your computer, and listening to a podcast or a RUclips video at the same time, while drawing or writing stuff, at first ti will be hard to concentrate because your mind will want to go to a focused state, but at some point you'll see how you can control that inner part, and then the multiple distractions lead your mind to wander and reach a certain creative state which powers up the inner mind!
Loved this! We definitely need more videos on dreams & sleep in general! My dreams are heavily tied to my mental health, even sometimes triggering episodes, or triggering self growth and acceptance. Dreams are powerful things!
From what I am hearing here the opposite should also be true, if you have a stressful situation coming up e.g. exams/family get together/surgery, you could do everything to remove mental clutter so that more of the pent up stress/anxiety/emotions gets processed while you sleep which would allow you to feel calmer and more prepared for the stressful situation.
I might not have the best example to hand but you understand what I'm getting at.
Since it is a part of our sleep cycles I'd assume there could situations or times in an individual's life where there would be benefit to utilising sleep to process emotions.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong Dr. K but I see this as a tool for weighing up what would be the most valuable to achieve in your sleep.
I'd imagine only using one or the other would be to miss the point entirely.
I’ve kind felt like this is whats been going on with me. I started a job right after getting kicked out and emotionally abandoned by family. The tasks are incredibly simple but I’m forgetting even the most basic organization skills I would’ve got down in a day.
i remember back when i was studying for my SAT exam i would sleep and have a problem/question in my head (i dont remember if i made it up or i saw it before) and i would solve it in my sleep then wake up and check my answer and it would be correct, honestly freaked me out a bit but would be cool to re-experience it, ended up doing well on the test too which made me feel like having my dream be like that was a good sign and that i was studying well, super interesting vid lmao
I don't do yoga, but I read a while back that sleeping consolidates memory. So I always do any memorization tasks at night before I go to bed. It's double duty, since practicing flash cards always makes me sleepy anyway. lol. So I get a great sleep, and hopefully it's been helping me memorize stuff better.
If I want to learn in sleep
1. Yoga nidra before bed or in morning. It will allow my brain to pick what to store and identity with
2. Studdy the same thing twice a day, at least 4 hours apart. Don’t fill up my brain with crappy stuff,
3. Vent emotions, but do not vent the knowledge j want to keep
4. Watch out for caffeine and alchhol intake
5. Closer I am to a “deadline” the better it will become.
This information is priceless. Thank you so much for sharing!
When I was a stage actor in college, many people had an incredibly tough time getting "off book" which just means knowing your lines. I actually starred in a 2 and half hour production where I literally was off stage for a brief minute during the entire runtime and yet I was easily the quickest one off book though I had most of the lines, and when others would trip up I could even give them THEIR line which really confused and possibly annoyed them as well.
And I did all this as a prolific stoner who wasn't necessarily super diligent or disciplined about studying and stuff. It was a mix of the repetition of rehearsal, where again I was always on so my workload was much bigger than other cast members, and recording rehearsal audio so I could listen back during sleep. Literally within a week I had the whole play in my head and could actually do any character, at least lines wise lol.
Thank you for everything Dr K!
I realise that this might be outside your target demographic, but if you could make some content with advice for neurodivergent parents I would really appreciate it.
When the bride was heavily pregnant I realised how much my own father not dealing with his "depression" adversely effected me, so I tried to get diagnosed and treated for depression. I ended up with a diagnosis of Schizoid Personality Disorder with autistic traits. With the benefit of hindsight I see a lot of those traits in my father. I see a counsellor regularly with the goal of breaking the cycle and not damaging my daughter the way I was damaged, but I recognise how little research there is in SzPD and how difficult this is.
The bride also had previously been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, but I suspect that its closer to an obsessive compulsive disorder partly being caused by being raised by a neat freak security conscious single mother.
If you have any advice for breaking these cycles of unhealthy behaviours and giving our daughter the best shot at a healthy upbringing I would really appreciate it!
I have definitely unintentionally done this prior to a test and I agree that it occurs perhaps from the stress and anxiety associated with a deadline. Only speculation, but perhaps the anxiety stops you from going too deep....??
My experience with yoga nidra has been very positive.
I usually do it when I've overworked myself and want a reset to get better ideas or when I'm studying and start feeling tired.
Sometimes I get into that state between sleep and wakefulness, sometimes I fall asleep and other times I'm awake but almost every time yoga nidra makes me feel nice and refreshed after 20-60 minutes. It was really interesting to hear more about it. :)
8:50 Yoga Nidra 1 week - 3 month. What is it 6:10?
9:20 Study small section twice on the same day. Have 4 hours apart(break), then study again of the same section.
10:45 Get rid of any negative emotions before sleeping (mediation) but don't write down material of learning to fill up the "ram".
I started with lucid dreaming and then yoga classes then meditation more broadly then wound up at Yoga Nidra… I came to this video to see what I could learn, and I’m shocked that what Dr. K described is basically the path I’ve already wound up putting myself on… obv still did learn a few small things but wow very validating!
hey can you shate some information you found on yoga nidta
For whatever reason a few days ago I decided to research what happens at marine boot camp.
I can’t remember the dreams that well but I do remember waking up at exactly 4am.
This is really interesting! I was recently tested for narcolepsy, and the doctor that did my sleep study said I might have to redo the test because he said I never actually went down into a “deep/REM sleep,” and when I did it wasn’t for very long. I’ve had this problem even as a kid. I was always a very light sleeper. I often times talked and walked in my sleep too. I have tried cutting out caffeine, I’ve tried only using my bed for sleeping, but I never got good restful sleep. I was always groggy and tired throughout the day. This would explain a lot of my memory problems. If I never got restful sleep, my brain couldn’t process the information.
The only way I can get decent sleep is with sleep aids. Melatonin or CBD was the best. I tried sleeping meds, but I tended to sleep walk more when I was on them, so I stopped for my own safety.
Have you ever tried taking GABA combined with L-Theanin, or L-Tryptophan, or Ashwaghanda?
I‘m currently experimenting with those things to improve my sleep. Especially the GABA/Theanin thingy seems to have a good potential when looking at studies.
Do u smoke weed ?
Thank you for explaining this process in detail. Its similar to non sleep deep rest, first heard it when Dr Huberman was giving an explanation about it. It is truly relaxing and refreshing.
bro sleeping is so magical, we get stronger while we sleep (gym recovery) we get smarter, we process emotions and feel better, we heal from any sickness or infection, what the hell
There's no magic, it's biology, even the stuff we don't understand yet. But I agree that the fact nature has found a way to use dead time as an advantage is awesome
@@grjim8909There’s no such thing as “dead time” when it comes to living beings. Either you’re processing and building, or you’re dead.
@@starmorpheus That's what I was saying, like if organism weren't using sleep for something other than recovery from physical exhaustion, it would be 'dead time'
@@grjim8909he is not saying that it is literally magic. He is expressing his excitement throught comparing it to magic
It's amazing if you can sleep well.
Thank you Dr. K and the HG team 🫶🏼
I’m a medical student. I am not a hard working student, but whenever I take a test, I would never pull a all nighter. I would study and then sleep early. Then in the morning I will remember much efficiently.
When the exam period starts, first thing I would do is actually sleep.. md get my fked up sleeping schedule in place( sleep early wake up early)
Find it much more effective in my studies
I have always thought that I am better at a thing after trying it, sleeping, and then trying again the next day. It's like I went through what I learned during sleep and come back more focused.
True enough about writing and releasing info. But, there is a difference in the purpose of the writing. If I write to put something on a to-do list or calendar, yes it goes out of my head. I depend on the calendar. However if I write with the intention learning, it does help things to sink in for me. I guess the intention has something to do with it. This is an interesting video. And we are all different although there are general things that work for the masses.
There's a competitive programming who has a video about co-opting the intuition. It feels quite related. The reason is that unless you convince yourself that it's important, it won't be as incentivised as when say you have a due date.
I learnt Yoga Nidra when I was in Catholic seminary school but actually I did use sleeping to help my studies ever since I was a kid. And yes, I also have to say there's a correlation between negative emotion and your dreams (hence the negative emotion and your quality of study)
I always hate it when I'm under stress and I noticed since I was a kid that I can't study well by cramming but it's better for me to review what I've learned before I sleep. I also napping (especially when I was in school) so, review 1 is quick memorising mentally what I've just learnt at school and the second is before bed. What I do between that time? I do my hobbies instead and I always have alone time when I'm just daydreaming and zoning out everything in my mind then focused on what I will study.
It's become even clearer after I learnt Yoga Nidra. In fact, many times I dreamt like I already know and already write what I have to do in the morning. So, when I wake up, I just need to do exactly what I've done in my dreams. This really help me in my college when I have to do my part time job. But again, you have to focusing your mind first on what you want to study during sleep, reviewing mentally what you've learnt for a day, zoning out, relaxing, and then "sleep"/meditate.
And about negative emotions. When you have negative emotions, I noticed that my mind is stressed (hence can't think clearly and can't study). So either I have to nap or daydreaming and zoning out (a lot) to clear my emotions. I even have a period when my marks were dive down so low when I was bullied. At that time, I'm not sleeping to review my study, I'm sleeping to survive from my own emotions and trauma (so, lot of nightmares). But then, when I learnt Yoga Nidra, I realised that I can use same basic to heal my trauma in my sleep. So I did jurnaling on my negative emotions and nightmares before I sleep and on some nights when I don't have any difficult class in that day or the day after I'm focusing my mind to review my trauma but reliving it from a much positive light. After I put a rest on my trauma, I can have my sleep study even clearer than before.
The timing of this was impeccable for me.. i just started studying for a new IT certification to get a promotion at work. Gonna try this out because i usually suck at studying and retaining all the information. Give me gear to program or troubleshoot and i can do it all day... Tests and studying what things are.... Terrible
bruh so heard dr k previously explain this, but was looking for something more in depth to actually grasp how to learn with yoga nidra, and sankalpas. This is a total blessing
At around 2020, in lockdown where every student just stayed in their rooms, i wad obsessed with this game called mordhau, it had intuitive and flowing combat that anyone could easily understand and i was instantly immersed. What i didn’t know was every night i thought about the movement if the swords and playing the actual game before i went into deep sleep. i was doing yoganidra without even knowing it. I became better at the game and people thought that i was on a smurf account when i only had 100 hours in. I can definitely vouch that yoganidra will work even for games and/or sports that require some mental acquisition.
Damn, I've been doing this since a teenager and it worked but as I've gotten older I play "stressful" games at night, never thought those negative emotions from gaming would actually mess up what I learned that day. Great to know!!
I've been doing exactly this for a long time, but it came from necessity more than anything else. Turns out video game addiction and binge watching youtube don't exactly promote studying so what I'd do is try to get an overview of study material a day before the test and leave it to my subconscious to fill in the gaps (because I pay attention in class the information is usually in there somewhere). What ends up happening after I wake up is that there's a solid structure of the study material, but with gaps. Those gaps get filled before the test when everyone is full of stress collectively reviewing the material. Yes it's not perfect, but I get very good results for little time of actual studying. The deadline Dr. K mentioned is the main driving force for me, otherwise the technique doesn't work nearly as effectively.
Great video!
14:36 is the timestamp for the reminder of the meat and potatoes of the video, also known as TL;DW.
I sort of did not understand the protocol and would appreciate help:
1. First session: Learn the material in question
2. Second session: 4 hours after first session you should revise the material without taking notes
3. Before Yoga Nidra and/or sleep: Process negative emotions. Do not be influenced by psychoactive substances
4. Yoga nidra: When? I did not understand this
Would love to see a video on modern psychodynamic therapy! Especially some of Nancy McWilliams work and Jonathan Shedler
Okay this video is nuts! I'll do all of this
I actually use this technique for learning difficult songs on guitar. Works great
I like to use notes and doodles as a way to categorize different ideas so then when I think of that doodle, it can remind me of the information I need to remember. I have been able to like remember so much material and like its so cool to see it work.
I remember once during lucid dreaming i've experienced a sudden slowdown of everything, like slowing down a tape in a recorder, and all colors and lighting and stuff gradually yet quickly disappearing as if i was going to wake up in a few seconds, but without this familiar "warmth" that goes with that. Also, i've felt how it became more difficult to think and come up with things and kinda gave up. I am not sure HOW, but i feel like what i was remembering is actually a transition from REM to deeper sleep.
Also yeah i remember getting to hypnagogic state, and from that state to REM, very well.
It's the kind of thing that might startle at first and is really weird to talk about with people who didn't practice it, but once a person gets into it, it just "fits", and is actually a very fun state to be in.
I can’t believe I just finally learned 13 years later why I was having nightmares since high school. Just in time too. 🌳🍃 keeps my nightmares away and I just ran out because I can’t afford to get anymore so I’m mentally preparing for my nightmares to come back
Thanks for the video, Dr.K. Your content is awesome! I have some questions tho...
1. Since I want to free my RAM of negative emotions, should I frontload most of my stressful responsibilities for earlier on in the day so there is more time to process?
2. You said not to try and write stuff down during the second portion of studying later in the day. How should I study during that period? Does solving problems or working through examples or even talking to other people affect that positively/negatively?
Thanks!
My profesor told us about "reading while asleep" technique. He said it was about leaving the book under your pillow. But the extra step was to briefly look at what's written in the book about an hour before sleep. It helps me learn but could make an improvement.
I think I've accidentally gotten into the yoganidra (sorry I probably butchered that) before. On multiple occasions, I've gotten stuck in this middle point between dreaming and being awake where I could see myself and my surroundings in the real world while I was sleep walking. At the same time, it's like my dream was being superimposed over my senses so that I was sensing what was happening irl and in my dream simultaneously. This is usually a response to stress and lack of sleep for me. I wasn't controlling my body irl but all I was doing was pacing. I vividly remember talking to my Nana while this happened one time, then when I was fully awake and aware, she confirmed coming downstairs to see me pace then have a convo
How I know Dr. K actually comes from an Indian background: instead of using a hard "s" sound in the middle of words, he uses a soft "z" sound. For example: "BaSic" becomes "Bazic". Verrrry Indian 😄
Love you so much, Dr. K! You're doing amazing work!!! 💖
What has been interesting for me to find out is that as you recall memories, you might change details. So you alter your own memories, might misremember etc.. So for important things I tend to always write stuff down.
Don’t know about “hypno-yogic” - as result of my debilitating insomnia i would enter HYPNOGOGIC states often. It’s a hallucinatory hell at times- but _sometimes_ i would be lulled into a dream but then jolt awake and realise my dream was just real things around me in the moment. Usually people staring at me strangely. I would fall asleep with my eyes open. It’s more weird for others to witness me in that state 👁
That being said, i am treated for adhd and insomnia now and ALWAYS find sleep learning an exciting ability i have gained ❤
think u may be right, maybe a freudian slip, but hypnAgogic That seemingly was a misinput. You're definitely correct.
@@Ran_Do thanks, i probably just forgot the spelling and was using my linguistic memory to spell it. It has been a long time since i needed to look it up and assess what i was experiencing
9:42 "cover chapter 1 to 2, take a break for 4 hours, then cover chapter 1 to 2 again", does he mean we should recall what we learnt in chapter 1 to 2 after 4 hours break or we can learn more details/ or what we missed about chapter 1 to 2 in the 2 session? I want to apply it but not clear about this point 😅
For the deadline part, I feel like it's because you are filled with more things in a time period if the things you are doing get less time to do. So you need to try hard on every bit of brain cells in order to fulfil the mission. Maybe a full-up schedule and goal of one day could help? Doctor K says to read two chapters a day and revise 4 hours later, but to the student who doesn't have a part-time job the rest of the day probably is filled with random stimulants. So I do three chapters and a few leisure reading it works really well.
holy shit, i have had the most horribly emotional few years and feel like my ability to remember and learn is completely gone. no wonder!!!
As an actor, I know this "deadline mode", for me it is 1-2 weeks before the premier. Then is, when the role "hits". I often am quite slow in actually finding the role, but for some reason, in this time, somewhere, it just hits, and suddenly, from one day to the next, my body reacts, and I can play the role. Before that, I am kinda useless, after that, I am quite good.
I always reviewed stuff I learned in my mind when going to sleep, helped me a lot. Need to try this now
So when I am studying or doing something very complex, I have the dream about it and then I understand it. Like when they took four of us from the street and taught us how to use IntelliJ, Git and write in Typescript with some FreeMarker tossed in, during 3 months. After two months I had that dream and it saved me from drowning.
Also very interesting that you mention writing as a way of purging your working memory, removing it from your mind. !! Have suspected this for a long time. For me, making a “list” is counterproductive unless that list or reminder is in a place i can not avoid seeing repetitively.
If i have a problem it is best not to meditate on it or write about it, that is a guarantee i will find resolution and freedom from the problem and not “retain it” to process it further!!
Your insights are flooding my life with assistance and validation! By one so young, so much wisdom, shared. How did you develop a passion to help others ? 👽
I have this very weird experience when studying for one of my last math exams in highschool. I did the test weeks while having the flu and studying the day before the math exam. I almost missed the entire semester and had to cram in all of it in one day which I almost did, except for this one stochastic calculation technique which I, from exhaustion, feher and feeling like shit, simply couldn't fit inside my brain anymore. So I never consciously learned that technique and went to sleep that night, knowing well that I'll fail the task the next day. So I go through the exam and when time came to solve the task which required that technique, I somehow knew what to do, although I couldn't consciously read the text describing the technique in the textbook the day prior. I would just read the sentences without being able to recall a single word right after, but knew how it worked after having a night of mediocre sleep.
I can also recall being a child and my mom teaching me stuff, me not understanding it after getting exhausted and miraculously having the solution to it after having night of sleep.
This makes a lot of sense. I did this all throughout my schooling. I was never the top of my class but always one of the top of my friend group. I also never took notes and never really put much thought into school. On occasion I’d review material at home but rarely. I mostly just audibly paid attention in class and my brain would process it enough to understand the material and that was it. I assume once I slept that info would be processed and moved into my long term memory because I literally wouldn’t write anything down except for like vocabulary. I hardly put any conscious effort into school because all of the learning was handled subconsciously while asleep. That’s cool.
In one of your talks you talked about that if we wait for something outside of us to force us to do something
We will do it but we won't do it otherwise
So if i must go to gym being overweight to save my life i will go (not the case just example)
But if my life is not at risk anymore i will probably stop
And here
In this talk you say that deadlines push you to do the work (learning etc)
But a week ahead of time you can't do it , so is it a skill we should develop? to do things that are beneficial to us although there is no rush to it?
Or can we use some pressure in certain ereas of life?
Is that free will? Hh idk that's what came up
I feel like a lot of the sleep learning I have done has been aimed at video games. Whenever I was unhappy about my performance in a video game I played earlier that evening, the bad games would occupy my mind as I was falling asleep and the next day I would usually perform much better in similar in-game situations.
I did this in high school as I HATED having to be physically put in studying, so I recorded myself narrating my notes, lessons and books and I listened to it like a podcast, awake and while sleeping. I let my subconscious do the work. I might have not gotten all excellents but I never failed an exam and never "studying" once. I learned that very quickly at like 14 that if I payed attention in class, I would remember most stuff and I would only need a little recap, worked fine for me but because I have an excellent memory
So I write classical music. One time I was working really hard writing 6-8 hours a day and I was struggling to work out this one fugal passage. I went to bed that night and all my dreams were just working through this passage I had been struggling with. In my dream I figured out how to make it work logically and I got up and wrote it down like it was nothing.
Started this a few days ago will report back at the end of August 2023 😁
After a month of following this i can self report that I did seem to retain more information early on in the month when I was studying. I continue with the journaling and meditation throughout the month and have noticed an improvement in my overall well being. I'm still on occasion anxious and I did let up on actively sitting down and studying as intensely as I did earlier in the month.
Overall going to keep going and see how it helps in the linger term.
I don't know if it's the same as what you're talking about, but for quite a few years now, when I sleep it's like lucid dreaming but with less consiousness, like it's more like I'm watching a movie, I can't interfere but I know it's a dream
I code alot, sometimes when i get stuck on a problem, i literally dream about it and usually get my answer, it's almost magical, like someone is doing your job while you're resting
Extremely interesting thank you young man!
I did it yesterday and an interesting thing happned. It was right after i bought street fighter 6, so i played all day long. And when i did the yoga nidra i could see, not literally as a screen but close, the game play when i had my eyes close. The combos, the movements and i could until a certain point control my character (guile). I also was reacting to the things the enemy was doing. Like, my thumbs were jerking and moving like my brain was literally revising what i learned. Very cool
It's actually the first time I've got to hear and learn about Delearning and it's something i wish i got to know a decade ago (yes I'm a guy with regrets and waste potential) knowing something like this would have been even more life changing
never a time like the present :} you've got this bro
@@videocam23 thank you ☺️
Hi doc K, i was recenttly diagnosed as Autistic and ADHD, as a 31y. I can only sleep with quetiapine. Saw this vídeo and was realy happy and looking foward for trying, but got crushed with The endinh 😢
Hi, I really appreciate your work and your style, you really do a great job explaining things! Could you please consider making a video where you explain dissociative identity disorder, or "dating someone with DID", kinda similar to what you did with BPD? I would really appreciate that, thank you!
So basically learning needs time
Speaking of sleeping, please make a video on how to fix your sleep: how to easily sleep, techniques to fall asleep quicker, etc.
I’ve been struggling to sleep earlier and wake up earlier for a very long time.
At night i sleep so late and i wake up early in the morning still feeling tired and sleepy. And because of that my health got worse too.
Please help Dr.K
He's done a few already! There's a 2 hour one called "Why Your Sleep Schedule Sucks (And How To Fix It!)". Hope this helps :)
Had this happen to me all the time when I obsessed over something or when I went mushroom hunting. Feels absolutely fantastic. I guess I'll Start trying to trigger it intentionally
0:32: 💡 Sleep is important for memory consolidation and learning.
2:57: 💡 During sleep, our brain goes through a process called d-learning where it focuses on getting rid of certain kinds of information, especially emotional experiences.
5:58: 🧘 The speaker learned a meditation technique called Yoga Nidra, which allows for conscious awareness while in a deep state of relaxation.
8:29: 🧘 Cultivating important things through Yoga Nidra and optimizing learning and delearning processes.
11:13: 💡 Writing things down empties our short-term memory, which is not ideal for studying in our sleep.
13:44: 🧠 To be cognitively productive during sleep, practice Yoga Nidra, optimize your RAM by studying the same thing twice a day with a gap of at least four hours, vent emotions before sleep, and limit caffeine intake.
16:09: 🧘♂ The speaker suggests using marijuana, alcohol, and psychoactive substances close to a deadline to enhance productivity, based on personal experience and extrapolation from scientific research and yogic techniques.
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I finally understand why people say, "Just sleep on it." or something along those lines
I’m in law school and sometimes while I sleep, I dream about the cases I’ve read and figure them out while I sleep. It’s really weird.
I would love to learn more about Yoga Nidra and meditation in general so I will check it out.
1. Fill up your short-term memory. They get consolidated during sleep. Study the same thing ~4 hours apart, twice a day, before sleep. Avoid filling with junk.
2. Our brain prioritises de-learning negative experiences over memory consolidation. Trauma may be consciously repressed but will be processed during sleep (e.g. nightmares). Vent before sleeping.
3. Yoga Nidra? Inducing a trance-like state of being consciously aware while sleeping?
4. Don't write the things you want to learn down before sleeping! Doing so "empties" your short-term memory, so that information is less likely to be retained during sleep.
5. Be careful of the substances you take in. Chemically inducing a deep sleep, for example, might reduce brain activity and hinder learning. Some substances also interfere with sleep stages.
6. Your mind learns better when deadlines are coming up (when it knows it is important?)
I’m about to go back to uni so this video couldn’t be more perfectly timed
I hope. it would save me a lot of effort
What I get from this video is that you have to conquer your conscious awakened state but go find improvement in the time where the body is unaware but the mind is free to roam in the state of deep sleep
Great video! However, it wasn't clear if Yoga Nidra should specifically be practiced right before sleep or at any relaxed time. Could you clarify the best time to practice it for maximum benefit?
this video is intellectual gold. it's worth so much
Eh 🤷♀️
He said he cant teach us the method as it would be a 30min video but there are guides. Looking at the description I didn't see a link. So I guess we have to be in his program
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I am a tactile learner, so if I see it or hear the information I feel like it doesnt get processed. I think you can write things down before bed if it helps to review it in your mind and slows your mind down so you can actually memorize it. Especially helpful if youre neurodivergent.
Thanks for sharing this information but I think a key point that wasn't touched was what is our goal during yoga nidra. We practice yoga nidra to be conscious while asleep, but what do we do in this conscious state?
Do we study more while conscious and in yoga nidra?
I learned the planets in grade school by dreaming of them lol
In college I began reading papers for my essay, cutting quotes I might need in advance and getting out 10 pages two days before because the topic was primed in my mind. Before that it was so painful to get them done well.
Delearning negative emotions in your sleep…is this why when I wake up from crying all night-I almost forget/blackout some of the bad memories?
I didn't realize "I'm basically a screw up in life and wanna start being a chad version of myself" was an acceptable therapeutic goal, but man does that sum it up lol.
I have used Nidra Yoga for sleep! Its amazing!
I read a book about Iron will or something. It discussed how the final minutes before you sleep you should be thinking abou lt the things you want not about how bad your days was
I never took any notes in high school, and ended up remembering the material anyway
As soon as im done with my Bachelor Thesis I will engage in this! Awesome! I Love evolving my mind. And I need to get Off of Shit. Just holds me back. Thanks for making me realize (once again).
I have a question. Does a nap in a day have same effect of moving the information from short term memory to long term memory?