Downloading lessons into the brain might sound like sci-fi, but technology that activates neural patterns might soon help us practice while asleep.
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They can be as small as opening your eyes while asleep or, at the very extreme end, driving a car while sleeping.
Anderson has even treated someone who carefully dismantled grandfather clocks while asleep.
For some of them this also entailed strange and disturbing side effects: sleepwalking, late-night food binges, even driving in the wee hours while asleep.
Most of the 6, 200 who died were trapped while asleep, too old too flee their collapsing homes or too young to understand the danger.
The idea of unlocking a smartphone, opening a texting app and then typing something while asleep may sound far-fetched, but the "sleep-texting" term is a little misleading.
At about two a.m. that night, while soundly asleep, I again rolled out of my bed, but this time I remembered afterward what I'd been dreaming before I hit the floor.
There are also more insidious effects: Many narcoleptics experience vivid hallucinations while falling asleep, and between 60% and 90% suffer from a dangerous condition called cataplexy, in which muscles become spontaneously paralyzed.
But sleepiness is dangerous and bad for health--leading to everything from falling asleep while driving to, in some studies, increased risk for obesity.
Both players are accused of stealing a flat screen television, an XBOX gaming system, two iPods and XBOX games while students were asleep inside the apartments.
The Arctic sea ice is constantly moving, breaking open and reforming into different shapes - which means we can end up moving several kilometres in any direction while we are asleep in our tents.
It disappeared forever while you were asleep.
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She and the five other drivers on her shift do most of their work while the rover is asleep.
"The Internet makes it easier to connect with other moms while the kids are asleep, or when mom gets a free moment, " she told CNN.
You can program your e-mail to send messages in the wee hours while you're asleep, to give the appearance that you're toiling away at 2 a.m.
It is alleged that the contestant in the 2004 series of the reality show assaulted the woman while she was "asleep and incapable of giving or witholding consent".
The blaze started downstairs while the family were asleep upstairs.
At night: As I sit quietly in the dark and stretch my arms out between them, while my boys fall asleep, I ask myself: Should I close my eyes or should I think through our next email campaign, or sales tactic?
They report that while the total time spent asleep remained the same as young adults moved towards middle age, the type of sleep differed.
He felt for a moment the way he used to as a child, walking around the apartment on a Sunday while everyone else was still asleep.
Tihar jail officials said Ram Singh appeared to have hanged himself with an improvised rope made from a blanket at about 05:00 local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday) while his three cellmates were asleep.
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Less than six months later, thieves struck again, prowling round the same home while she and husband Guy were asleep upstairs.
The 2010 incident happened on the tarmac in an Airbus A319, when the captain allegedly fell asleep for a short while on turnaround.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study this year that found 4 percent of U.S. adults nodded off or fell asleep at least once while driving in the previous month.
After spending a lot of time falling asleep at the library while facing the philosophy books, I determined that the concept of destiny is a construct that allows man a gentle release from facing the terror of his existence, and that a Hyundai full of twenties would pretty much offer the same benefits.
Lord Snape, who is also chairman of Stockport County football club, said the thieves broke in through a small window in the kitchen while he and his wife Linda were asleep.
Wearing a Yankees dog collar, and falling asleep on a pinstriped blanket while listening to Josh Groban songs, Mitch is among 54 Labs in the show (golden retrievers lead with 61).
When it struck, he was at sea while his wife and three children were at home asleep.
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