Edison, famously, solved problems in a light dream state [1].

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thomas-edisons-na...

While you're sleeping I'm practicing my skills. Enjoy being poor, suckers!

There's a long history of doing yogic practice in the dream state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_yoga

This is nothing new as there's even a term for it - "hypnopedia." People used this widely to learn new languages in the past, but I'm not sure I've seen evidence about its effectiveness.

So... If your latest nap was comprised of nightmares and solving a job issue, can you charge your boss for overtime and harmful working conditions?

This is fascinating, but it feels like exactly the kind of topic where the effect size and reproducibility matter more than the headline. Dream research is very easy to oversell.

yeah i hate it when i work while sleeping

Me: "I'm gonna plan the workshop tomorrow, more than enough time."

7,5 h Later

Brain: "Hey, here is everything, worked the whole night, no need to thank me!!!"

Me: "I need coffee..."

Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.

When I was beginning to use AI for everything, as most of us had, I would start dreaming that wall of text that had a personality sat between me and reality. For several nights I would dream this way with the wall becoming translucent and displaying text but the "real" actions (other people, scenes) was happening on the other side of the wall. I've dreamed in videogames as well. I'm not sure if I was getting any learning done, but I'm pretty sure my brain was exercising modes of thought that would push knowledge from "system 2" down into "system 1."

The bigger problem is, most of people's brain do not work while sleeping, since there are less and less hard problems to think about.