Has anyone tried NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest)? While searching around for information I stumbled on this:
AFTER A LEARNING BOUT, DO A NSDR (NON-SLEEP DEEP REST) PROTOCOL
Two studies (on humans) published in the last 2 years show that shallow naps and/or NSDR can enhance the rate and depth of learning. This is an easy practice to incorporate. Within 1 hour of completing a learning bout, do a short NSDR protocol. You have options as to what NSDR you choose: Reveri is a zero-cost (research tested), self-hypnosis app, or take a brief 20 minute nap, or listen to an NSDR script such as Yoga Nidra.
Iād be interested in reading the studies, but there wasnāt a link in the article.
I learnt in the āHow to Learnā course by Barbara Oakely (and team) our brains go into diffuse mode when we nap. This means we can make connections that were previously not available to us during focus mode.
This aids creativity, but I would think this also allows us to *weave in information into our minds better too.
Thomas Edison did this where he sat with a ball in his hand and when he fell into sleep the ball would fall and wake him up. Sparking Creativity
Personally, I do this all the time, and itās often great. Light nap (timer set), a meditation, and/or a walk outside, or interleaving with another subject. The idea is that your conscious is connecting to other parts of your mind that can help make associations/connections.
Though what you have provided with NSDR appears a new take, or a meshing of meditation and entering diffuse mode perhaps?.. And then some!
This is complete nonsense! If you are older than puberty, you donāt need a daytime nap. Get enough sleep in the evening. For example, go to bed at 22 and wake up at 5-8.
Donāt fall for that, please.
As a child you can still sleep during the day and practise this. When you are an adult, things work differently and daytime sleep will bring more negativity.
@NekroFernus, on the contrary. While getting sufficient amount of sleep is extremely important and getting to bed early as well, even naps of at least 45 minutes to about one hour have been shown to increase long-term memory creation immediately after learning a new thing. The study showed that the benefit could be extended from infants to adults.
Thatās an interesting article. Iāve noticed that sometimes a good idea comes to me as Iām falling asleep and then I have to decide whether to wake up and write it down or just fall asleep. Iām going to try to pay more attention to it.
Edit: I just updated the sleep tag so it will be easier to find related posts.
I know what you mean. The other night I had a lot of ideas as I was going to sleep. I got to the point where I didnāt want to keep writing notes on my phone.
Then, I got another ideaā¦ on one hand, I knew if I fell asleep I would lose itā¦ but I was super comfortable and did not want to actually wake up.
So I threw a cushion on the floor, and imagined it crying, I was working to make the image memorable enough I would remember it in the morning.
I woke up, and it worked.
Ps. the idea edit I was trying to remember * was to enter into my story events by emotions rather than a timeline.
It worked because you created the image and went to bed (no memory consolidation took place). With or without emotion = 0 difference. Emotion is likeā¦imagining while remembering something, images in 4k full hd quality. Do you need it? No.
Remembering with emotion: image representation + animation/feeling => connection to location or just leave it āin your headā.
Remembering without emotion: image + location
Can you imagine a black cat on the table right now? Have you been able to? You saw a hazy, not very clear image. Thatās enough. Also, it doesnāt move and has no emotion. Like a picture in paint.
This happens to me when I lie down to sleep, I relax very easily, I always try not to have any worries on my mind, I plan for everything, in short. When Iām working on something and my mind is blocked, I donāt keep trying to break the blockage in my mind, instead I lie down and thatās when solutions arise, but this only happens in a state of relaxation. Ideas donāt let me sleep even though Iām relaxed.
Memory is absolute. There is nothing there that can be improved or worsened (except illness and head injuries). You have the ability to remember ā turns into a skill (automatism). This is what we improve with training.
There is no such thing as memory training, itās an advertising name. There is no such thing as a bad memory or a good memory. Most mnemusicians on this forum will find it difficult to remember practical serious information.
Because it goes beyond words, numbers, names and so on
I think this is a very western / modern industrialized world way of thinking. In many cultures, it is normal to have two sleep phases. The daytime nap is sometimes ingrained into the culture. I have heard that up to half of the world does this. The latinos call it a siesta, but there are probably other names for it. See Biphasic and polyphasic sleep.
There are other multi-phasic sleep patterns. I read an account of someone that tried it, but it just didnāt work out with the rest of his family and work not on the same schedule. The above link mentions Buckminster Fuller who had 30-minute naps every 6 hours and maintained it for 2 years, but stopped for similar reasons.
There are also interesting experiments of people being isolated without light that end up with non-24 hour sleep cycles.
