Sherry Taylor

Q: New research finds you may be able to improve your athletic performance by simply doing this?

A: dreaming about it

EXPERTS SAY DREAMING OF EXERCISE CAN MAKE YOU PERFORM BETTER: New research finds you may be able to improve your athletic performance by simply dreaming about it. Researchers at HeidelbergUniversity say they’ve connected lucid dreaming, or dreaming you can control, of physical movement can improve waking perfomance of those movements. Researchers say it works because the mind believes the practice is actually happening. One ballerina in the study describes struggling with a complicated movement for a long time, and then after “sleep practicing” it found she could then perform it in real life. Others in the study were able to control their dreams and then run faster and longer in real life. (Daily Mail)

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