Can you listen to auto suggestion or self hypnosis and or audio tapes while sleeping and expect it to work or remember it at a later time?

Answer 1

This is two questions: "Are autosuggestion or hypnosis tapes effective?" and "Is sleep learning effective?"

The answer to the first question is yes. Hypnosis is effective; not for everyone, not for everything but effective enough that it is well worthy exploring.

Most reliable sellers of hypnosis audio tapes offer money back guarantees, because results do vary.

As far as sleep learning, the research is clear: it does not work for the vast majority of people. This is not to say that it won't work for any particular person, but it is unlikely to be beneficial.

Note: I have a personal experience of the effectiveness of sleep learning.Many, many ye ars ago, as I Canadian high school senior, I was worried about flunking my compulsory French exams. I invested in a very primitive endless-tape type recorder and an under-the-pillow speaker. I taped myself pronouncing thousands of new French vocab to cram as much as possible. Vocab was my main weakness. On my mid-term I got an A in French. Success! Looking over my results, I was shocked to discover that I had made three spelling mistakes on words that I had known for years. How come? I asked myself.

Eventually, the mystery was solved. Reviewing my French Vocab tape, I discovered that I had mispronounced those three words. In the heat of battle, on that exam, I had spelled them phonetically, as I had learned them in my sleep from my own recording, not the correct spelling that I had previously learned and remembered well. Thus I was convinced that subconscious learning (in my sleep) was very effective. giving me confidence, quickly broadening my vocab level, getting a high score on my exams and, accidentally, un-learning some words that I had been sure of spelling correctly, long before I used the sleep-learning technique for cramming. End of story.