Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation
Wamsley, Tucker, Payne, Benavides and Stickgold, Current Biology 20(9), 2010, 850-855. 99 students aged 18 to 30 learned a 3D virtual maze, retest 5 hours later, about half napped. Four nappers (about 8 percent) who mentioned the maze in dream reports improved roughly tenfold more than nappers without such reports; waking thoughts about the maze did not predict improvement. Small subgroup, association.
Wamsley, Tucker, Payne, Benavides and Stickgold, Current Biology 20(9), 2010, 850-855. 99 students aged 18 to 30 learned a 3D virtual maze, retest 5 hours later, about half napped. Four nappers (about 8 percent) who mentioned the maze in dream reports improved roughly tenfold more than nappers without such reports; waking thoughts about the maze did not predict improvement. Small subgroup, association.
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Wamsley, E. J., Tucker, M., Payne, J. D., Benavides, J. A., & Stickgold, R. (2010). Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Current Biology, 20(9), 850-855. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.027 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.027