Argues that a broad dimension of useful experiments would be suggested if the field supplemented its current research strategy with a second strategy focused more explicitly on the extension of generality. (HOD)

This paper examines the parallels between suggestopedia and Soviet sleep-learning for learning foreign languages. Both systems are based on the idea that the acquisition of information can occur in states below the optimal level of consciousness. Hypnopedia makes use of the period of paradoxical or light sleep that usually occurs just as one is…