Quote Originally Posted by StephL View Post
What really astounded me thoroughly - there is a guy, who starts out playing darts with us.
When I talked to a mate of his and mine - he told me, he had asked him, how come he is improving without having a board of his own.
There was a study where they trained mice to do certain tasks, I think it was going through a maze to capture cheese or something. The mice would only be able to reach a certain skill level by practicing it a lot and then they would no longer improve until they went to sleep. The next day the mice would show a lot more improvement instantly, as though they had been practicing all night in their dreams. I know that I practice stuff all the time in my dreams too, from piano to martial arts. It's usually only things that involve repeatable muscle movements.

AND I read another study that talked about how we can work out in our dreams and build actual muscle mass by doing so. It was the finger experiment! Where some subjects would exercise their finger for so long and others would imagine that they were exercising their fingers for the same amount of time. Those that were imagining the exercises developed almost as much muscle mass as those that were actually doing the physical movements. I think you can google it, it's called From mental power to muscle power—gaining strength by using the mind