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Hypnopaid In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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On average, humans sleep twenty-two years of their life away within their life span (Mckanna 2). This to most is time well wasted, but what if we could make use of that time. In many science fiction novels such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the people of the future use hypnopaedia or sleep-learning to make better use of this time simply slept away. Hypnopaedia is the playing of a recording repeatedly while an individual is sleeping so that they learn and retain the information. However, the latest theories on its further applications do not exactly meeting its ideal purpose. While we sleep, our mind is constantly sending neurological impulses in our hippocampi that allows us to store memories (Robson 1). This storing and processing

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