Does studying in bed really make me smarter?

[tronter]

Does anybody study in bed (i.e. sitting up against a pillow)?

 

[rocomath]

no i do it laying down :)

i usually study at barnes for hours and right b4 i sleep, i do a "cool-down" studying in bed.

 

[Heat]

Does anybody study in bed (i.e. sitting up against a pillow)?

I'm doing that right now, although I get more done when I am sitting at my desk. That is where I can really focus on the material.

 

[Astronuc]

I sometimes read in bed before going to sleep.

 

[Cyrus]

I study at a desk.

 

[mattmns]

Depends. I don't think I'll do any serious math while in bed, but I have read books for other subjects in bed.

 

[mgb_phys]

Although it's generally frowned upon to hold tutorials in bed.

 

[JasonRox]

I sometimes read in bed before going to sleep.

That's my habit right there.

 

[proton]

I tried reading textbooks for subjects i didnt like in bed. Most of the time I fell to sleep

 

[Lisa!]

Does anybody study in bed (i.e. sitting up against a pillow)?

Most of the time!
I sometimes lay down.

 

[radou]

That's my habit right there.

Same here.

 

[oedipa maas]

I preferred to study in bed all through undergrad and grad school. I guess my desk was always too cluttered to study at.

Occasionally my boyfriend got annoyed if he had to remove textbooks to the floor before he could get into bed.

 

[mgb_phys]

Occasionally my boyfriend got annoyed if he had to remove textbooks to the floor before he could get into bed.

You would have been more annoyed if he had removed you to get at the textbooks!

 

[EnumaElish]

I preferred to study in bed all through undergrad and grad school. I guess my desk was always too cluttered to study at.

Occasionally my boyfriend got annoyed if he had to remove textbooks to the floor before he could get into bed.

The question is, did you do so to annoy him?

 

[oedipa maas]

The question is, did you do so to annoy him?

Well, I met the boyfriend after I had formed my study habits. The alternative was to sleep at his place and listen to CPU fans revving all night.

You would have been more annoyed if he had removed you to get at the textbooks!

His field was CS, so he was never that hot for orgies with Ashcroft and Mermin.

 

[tronter]

how did you not fall asleep?

 

[EnumaElish]

The alternative was to sleep at his place and listen to CPU fans revving all night.

Did you think it was the CS equivalent of a sleep machine?

 

[oedipa maas]

I mostly studied by redoing the derivations and example problems done in class and in the textbook. I also liked to make a first attempt at the homework problems on my own (in bed). Having to move a pencil around probably helped me stay awake. It was also too noisy in my head to fall asleep!

 

[MrJB]

My computer is at my desk, so I often get distracted if I study there. So, I read and do homework while laying down in bed. It's more comfortable, but I don't fall asleep.

 

[ganstaman]

I study walking around mostly. In circles until I get slightly dizzy, then I change directions.

If the book is too heavy or I'm too tired of walking, I'll sit down. But I have to keep changing my posture every minute or two.

I've tried working on my bed before, but I fall asleep too quickly.

 

[EnumaElish]

It was also too noisy in my head to fall asleep!

The Paranoids playing all night?

 

[angel 42]

I sit on the floor to find answers for complicated questions and it works well sometimes better than studying at my desk, if I tried that in bed maybe I will find the answer but in my dreams:zzz:

 

[Moonbear]

Although it's generally frowned upon to hold tutorials in bed.

Darn! There goes that idea for a new course to offer.

I could never study in bed; I'd fall asleep. I've always needed to study or read things that require serious thinking at a desk or table. Sometimes if it's just reading or writing and not hard-core thinking, I can sit on my couch and read. Actually, cracking open a big fat textbook in bed was always a great cure for insomnia...the only other cure I've ever found for insomnia is the sound of the alarm clock going off.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I study in bed, and I've learned a lot that way. Like don't read book a book in bed when your spouse isn't reading one.

 

[Moonbear]

I study in bed, and I've learned a lot that way. Like don't read book a book in bed when your spouse isn't reading one.

 

[J77]

I prefer to use natural performance enhancers, such as studying whilst standing on my head and letting gravity do its thing.

 

[mgb_phys]

such as studying whilst standing on my head and letting gravity do its thing.

Based on the idea that knowledge is power, power is energy, energy is mass and mass has weight?