Comatose Learning???

meteorskunk

Canada546 Posts

April 16 2010 14:20 GMT

I saw an article about a Croatian girl that went into a coma and awoke from it speaking fluent German. She had only just began studying it and was not close to fluent before this.

Article

There are like a million possible explanations but it encouraged me to actually try sleeping with the french news on going as i sleep to encourage french dreams. I know that external stimulus affects dreams to at least some degree sometimes (listening to boards of canada trying to sleep and being underwater in the dream).

Am I an idiot??

Pika Chu

Romania2510 Posts

April 16 2010 14:27 GMT

Yes, your sleep won't be as efficient as it should.

meteorskunk

Canada546 Posts

April 16 2010 14:33 GMT

Oh dang. Do you know the explanation for that off hand? I was googling pretty hard to no avail.

Nightmarjoo

United States3360 Posts

April 16 2010 14:45 GMT

lol she can't speak Croatian anymore. She was only in a coma for 24 hours too.

3clipse

Canada2555 Posts

April 16 2010 14:57 GMT

lol

Fully aware of how retarded it was, I once listened to an audio Japanese lesson while I slept. I suppose I would need to run more trials to really see how much I absorbed, but it really does interfere with sleep if it's audible and clear. I would have been a wreck by the 4th day.

madnessman

United States1581 Posts

April 16 2010 15:01 GMT

"There are references to cases where people who have been seriously ill and perhaps in a coma have woken up being able to speak other languages – sometimes even the Biblical languages such as that spoken in old Babylon or Egypt – at the moment though any speculation would remain just that – speculation – so it's better to continue tests until we actually know something."

That's pretty insane if that's true. There would be some interesting implications as well. I doubt people in comas have much exposure biblical languages that they could subconsciously internalize so would the knowledge already have to be in them? I don't really see how thats possible... I'm confused now.

Cloud

Sexico5880 Posts

April 16 2010 16:03 GMT

Probably woke up speaking gibberish and some smartass thought that it sounded like an Egyptian word or ancient Babylonian (lol). I'm sure a baby can babble some shit in 5 different languages from around the world since words are just noises.