hypnopædia
(hɪpnəʊˈpiːdɪə)
Also -pedia.
[f. hypno- + Gr. παιδεία education.]
The exposure of a sleeping subject to lessons played on a radio, tape recorder, etc.; teaching or learning by this method, ‘sleep-learning’.
| 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World ii. 27 The principle of sleep-teaching, or hypnopædia, had been discovered. 1959 Listener 26 Feb. 385/1 Subliminal persuasion, hypnopaedia, brain-washing. 1969 New Scientist 30 Jan. 216/1 Sleep learning or hypnopedia, as its practitioners prefer to call it, is now acquiring a new status among Soviet teaching circles. 1971 Nature 24 Sept. 290/1 The opening chapters dispel misconceptions many people have about hypnopaedia. |
Hence hypnoˈpædic a., of or involving hypnopædia; hypnoˈpædically adv.
| 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World iv. 82 The sort of words that suddenly make you jump..they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopædically obvious. Ibid. x. 173 Listening unconsciously to hypnopædic lessons in hygiene and sociability. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 7/1 The Russians are also learning..how to avoid the fatigue brought on by repeated hypnopedic sessions. |