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{{trope}}
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A character tries to use hypnopædia, aka sleep learning, to crash study for an important upcoming event; a test, a meeting with his boss, something. The technology fails on him, possibly due to outside interference. What he ends up with is a bit of brainwashing. The record got stuck, and repeated one phrase over and over, or the programs were crossed up. In a twist, the random tics the character exhibits as a result end up falling in the exact right places, leading to a sort of Clouseauesque success... at least temporarily.
It's worth noting that, although some people will try to convince you to the contrary,
Compare [[Hypno Fool]]. Not to be confused with [[Asleep in Class]], although it's conceivable that an extremely lucky individual would combine the two tropes, by sleeping through class and absorbing the knowledge nevertheless.
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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[
* Played with in [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] when Yusuke, as a ghost, is able to appear in Kuwabara's dream strictly to help him study for the upcoming test. It's bizarre, but it works! As a note, the idea that dreams help you learn information you remember is considered quite probable in psychology so this is stretching the truth at worst.
* In [[Kyou Kara Maou]] Conrad is able to learn Japanese via sleep learning.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Batman]]'': Jean Paul Valley's father used
* This is how kids were taught on [[Silver Age]] [[Superman|Krypton]]. Maybe it works better on the Kryptonian mind.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Quite possibly twisted before it ever got off the ground, in Aldous Huxley's novel ''[[Brave New World (
* Tape in [[
* A king in the ''[[Discworld]]'' tried to do this by having slaves whisper in his ear. Unfortunately the third one stuck a dagger in it but, "the theory was sound".
** To elaborate, the King asked a philosopher if he could find an easy way for the King to learn things. The philosopher replies there is no easy way to knowledge, to which the King says he bloody well better find a way or else. Cue the slaves.
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* [[Robert Heinlein]] was a believer in sleep teaching: he used it in several of his novels.
** In ''Glory Road'', a (straight) man is taught a foreign language with the aid of an hypnotic trance and a beautiful, nude, woman.
** Heinlein also used the trope (again for real, not for laughs) in his earlier novel ''[[Space Cadet (
** In ''Citizen of the Galaxy'', Thorby is programmed with a message by means of hypnosis and a "sleep instructor".
* The ''[[Wayside School]]'' books has one student, a [[Heavy Sleeper]], never being disturbed by the others on Ms. Jewell's insistence that she's sleep-learning. At least one tie-in book hints this may be right.
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* ''Feral TV'' (technically a puppet show, but its predecessor, ''[[The Ferals]]'', had live actors as well as puppets) features Darren [[The Ditz|the dog]] teaching himself to be more assertive by this method. After seeing it work, his "friends" immediately begin sticking in ''Teach Yourself Karate'', ''Teach Yourself French'', and ''1001 Uses For A Dead Cane Toad'' (their boss being a cane toad). [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensues, but only a little bit since it's a 5-minute program]].
* In an episode of ''[[Radio Active]]'', George is caught sleeping in class, and explains that he is actually studying his book via osmosis. While it does work, it turns out he was sleeping on the wrong book.
* Referenced in an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' called "The Voyager Conspiracy." Seven of Nine modified a device called a cortical subunit allowing her to download ship's status reports while she was regenerating. When she mentioned this to Captain Janeway, Tom Paris commented "Learn while you sleep? I tried that once, gave me a headache." The ultimate effect of Seven of Nine's experiment was that the new information wasn't absorbed properly and she became paranoid, convinced that both Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay were plotting against ''Voyager''.
* Randy Disher did this in the ending of the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Visits A Farm" regarding a case file of a crime he reviewed. Justified, as he initially thought it was the result of his sleeping that he solved the cause of the murder of his uncle (Monk, while Disher was asleep, fed the answer through his ear without his knowledge).
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Apparently, this is one of [[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World|Tenebrae's]] seven hidden talents. Neither Emil nor Marta find it useful, however.
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* A research option in [[Outpost 2]]. Reported to be ineffective, but it does give a trivial boost to the training time (or minor if playing as Eden).
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon "A Jorb Well Done" slightly subverts this. When Coach Z's inability to pronounce the word "job" becomes a major sticking point, the other characters try everything from elementary school to [[A Clockwork Orange (
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' show 58 has Jon Arbuckle preparing for a pitch to a publisher (his little-seen job is as a cartoonist). The publisher doesn't like Jon's nail-biting habit, so Jon tries using a sleep-learning record to cure himself. Garfield and Odie destroy the record by accident and replace it with cartoon sound effects, a Spanish-language tutoring record, and a "Hits of the 1950s" collection. At the meeting, all Jon can produce is "Hola, Paco, ¿Qué tal?", doo-wop music, and machine-gun noises. As it turns out, the publisher is a Mexican immigrant, named Paco, who likes doo-wop, and the sound effects match Jon's submission very well. Unfortunately, he still hasn't cured his nail-biting habit, and Jon doesn't get published.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Homer orders a "weight loss" tape to help curb his overeating, but since they're all out, they send him a "vocabulary builder" tape. He spends much of the episode consuming vast amounts of food while talking about it in [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|very long words]].
* ''[[
** Ironically, the correct way of referring to a cheese omelette in French would probably be omelette ''au'' fromage. "Omelette du fromage" would translate to "cheese's omelette"
* Hank and Dean from ''[[The Venture Bros]]''. are educated this way in lieu of school. Apparently it works. In fact it also {{spoiler|copies their memories to be implanted into spare clones of them for their frequent deaths.}}
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* When [[
* One British ASW Captain had a habit of going to sleep during maneuvers with a pair of headphones connected to the sonar. At one time he woke up and said, "That's a submarine". And indeed it was. When asked how he knew he said it had a "metallic sound" or something of the kind.
* It's easier to retain knowledge if you read/listen to it just ''before'' you go to sleep, due to the shift from normal brain-waves to alpha brain-waves. As an added bonus, you'll be able to ''comprehend'' it and not just be a living tape recorder. However, it still takes at least a few days, so cramming the night before a test isn't recommended.
* This is how [
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