Dispelling "Neuromyths": Learn while you sleep

The article we read about dispelling neuromyths said that the idea of learn something while you're sleeping was born during World War II. People imagined that spies would learn the dialects, accents, habits, etc while they were sleeping, but this statement is only a science fiction idea from Hugo Gernsback who wrote a book about it in 1911. This idea began to spread into the real world, after that people thought that they could actually do it.

Some experiments tried to confirm or refute this idea. One of them was made in Russia. This research was based on narrating a story for children to subjects sleeping normally. They checked that one of the twelve subjects was able to remember certain things about the narration.

Other experiment compared the memories from a person who had read a story and another who listened the narration while sleeping. Both of them seemed to remember the same quantity of details. Some researchers said that maybe there are “sensitive” subjects who are more prone to remember things they heard when they were sleeping. But anyway, there’s no scientific evidence that you could learn a foreign language or maths while you’re asleep. It takes a conscious effort.

If you ask me I would love to be this kind of “sensitive” person who is able to remember some stuff from sleeping. But in the other hand, could we really take some rest if we are studying all the time? If learn while we are sleeping is possible some day, I’m sure there will be consequences. Of course I’d use that capacity for exams and things like that, but other people could use it to other unknown purpose, don’t you think? So in that case I could be even dangerous.

A healthy life style, is it possible?

A few minutes ago we where talking about what did we eat today at lunch. The question meant to show us how badly we are eating these days. Maybe the lack of time makes us eat the fastest and simplest food we can get. Maybe don't taking serious our alimentation is leading us to eat anything. But I think this is not only a problem of responsible students like us ;) I believe that the whole world is choosing what is immediately. Fast food is tasty, but in my opinion it doesn't replace the home made food.

So my opinion is that sometimes we have fast food (or not food at all) because we don't have enough time to have lunch properly.
Factors like our alimentation, our physical activity, how we use our free time, can take us to live a sedentary life, and that sooner or later will bring us a lot of problems.

Have a healthy life style is possible, I think. But in the world we live now, having that kind of life is very difficult. Our society demands us to be successful, be a great student, have a great job, gain a lot of money and preferably be physically attractive and skinny.
But having a healthy life style can give you that and a lot more. For me having a healthy life style is to try to relax and being with your family every time you can, have regular physical activity, try to don't stress up with every little rock that's on your way, and treat the others as you want to be treated. So for me, a healthy life involves also your mental health. Being a good person also helps you having a better quality of life.

Of course exercising and eating may define in a very technical way if you're being healthy or not. But those things come along when your mind is healthy and clear.
We all know that when we are stressed up everything seems to be wrong. We don't get good grades, we fight with everyone and we close to ourselves.
That is not healthy either, right?