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1 Brave New World Revisited: Hypnopaedia
PRESENTED BY: Isabella and Sariah

2 What is Hypnopaedia? Learning by hearing Sleeping Brave New World
Intellectual Activity  Conditioning  Tremendously powerful instrument

3 Commercial Firms American Army – WW2 Pillow speakers
Clock-controlled phonographs Tape recorders Variety of messages Works for many people

4 Woodland Road Camp Autumn of 1957 Tulare County, California
Psychological Guinea Pigs  Pillow speakers  Every hour "the principles of moral living" 

5 10 most important studies
Charles W. Simon and William H. Emmons Psychological Bulletin for July, 1955 Memory Sleep learning not clear Type of awake state Analyzed & evaluated the 10 most imp. Studies 

6 Kids and Hypnopaedia Otto Georg Wetterstrand Sleeping Children
Children can be cured  Therapeutic sleep- teaching of small children

7 Deep and Light sleep Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
Theodore X. Barber Article "Sleep and Hypnosis" Difference between light and deep sleep Alpha waves Suggestibility Article appeared in october 1956 Suggestible in light sleep will respond (you are thirsty. Gets up to go drink water with a dry mouth)

8 Wide Range Neither age nor sex Reaction to placebos
The young as often as the old  The way they felt about themselves and others The reactors V.S. the non-reactors 

9 Placebos Massachusetts General Hospital
Pain-relieving effects of placebos Morphine and distilled water 162 patients out of surgery 30% = not relief of placebo 14% = relief from placebo 55% = relief on occasion

10 Hypnotism on populations
 Can be hypnotized   Can not be hypnotized at all   Hypnotized less easily  Twenty percent Eight percent minority The ones affected in the long run Ten percent affective 

11 Dictatorship Dictators = advantage
No more than 10% effective = still desirable for a dictator Light sleep similar to hypnosis Verbal suggestions end up in the autonomic nervous system Continuously repeated will make it work

12 Hypnopeadia in a nutshell
Learning in sleep form Proper conditions work Light sleep and hypnotism = advantageous Suggestibilty range varies 


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