Wake Up Tired? Maybe You Are Working In Your Sleep?

Kurzweil AI (Accelerating Intelligence) ran a post on September 15, 2014, Now You Can Work in Your Sleep.  The story reports on a study from researchers that parts of our brains just keep on processing even while we are sleeping.  The study had participants (while awake) categorizing a word as representing an object or an animal. Participants pressed a button to enter their answers. So far so good. 

What happened next? Participants went to sleep, testing continued, with researchers speaking additional words.  The results?  “The researchers’ observations of brain activity showed that the participants continued to respond accurately to the words (although more slowly) as they slept.”

Is this an elder law-specific post? Not really. But now there is another possible explanation besides age if you wake up tired; now you really can work 24/7.