Andrew Huberman· PhD
So you can actually accelerate learning with these NSDR protocols or with brief naps, 90 minutes or less.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So you can actually accelerate learning with these NSDR protocols or with brief naps, 90 minutes or less.
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There was a paper that was published in Cell Reports last year that shows that if people did, it was a spatial memory task, actually quite difficult one where they had to remember the sequence of lights lighting up and if they're just two or three lights in a particular sequence it's easy but as you get up to 15 or 16 lights and numbers in the sequence it actually gets quite challenging. If immediately after, and it was immediately after the learning the actual performance of this task, people took a 20 minute Non Sleep Deep Rest protocol or took a shallow nap, so lying down, feet slightly elevated perhaps, just closing their eyes, no sensory input, the rates of learning were significantly higher for that information than where the two just had a good night's sleep the following night.