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10 Mar 2025

A short YouTube monologue by Emily McDonald (March 2025) explaining that scientific studies show learning can occur during sleep. She summarizes evidence that simple learning (habit formation) and more complex learning (vocabulary word-pair acquisition) can take place when information is presented during slow-wave sleep (not REM), and notes she uses sleep-hypnosis tracks personally to rewire beliefs and habits while sleeping.

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