Science-Based Mental Training & Visualization for Improved Learning - Huberman Lab  ## Metadata - Author: **Huberman Lab** - Full Title: Science-Based Mental Training & Visualization for Improved Learning - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/4c05e80f-9bd9-4cae-93f3-e28fdea1d4a4 ## Highlights - Adjusting Mattress Temperature with 8 Sleep for Better Sleep Key takeaways: • Adjusting the temperature of your mattress and direct sleeping environment is key for better sleep. • 8 Sleep makes it easy to program the temperature of the mattress and sleep environment. • Using an 8 Sleep mattress cover can result in the best sleep ever. • Mental training and visualization has been studied since the late 1800s. • Galton's paper, 'Statistics of Mental Imagery,' explored how people come up with mental images. Transcript: Speaker 1 Of course, you can adjust the temperature of the room that you sleep in. I do hope that people are doing that. But adjusting the temperature of your mattress and your direct sleeping environment is also key. With 8 Sleep, it makes it very easy to program the temperature of that mattress and sleep environment, not just throughout the night, but for specific phases of the night. I started sleeping on an 8 Sleep mattress cover well over a year ago, and it's the best sleep that I've ever had. If you'd like to try 8 Sleep, you can go to 8sleep.com slash Huberman and check out the PodPro cover and save $150 at checkout. 8 Sleep currently ships in the USA, Canada, UK, select countries in the EU and Australia. Again, that's 8sleep.com slash Huberman to save $150 at checkout. Let's talk about mental training and visualization. Now, perhaps surprisingly, mental training and visualization has been studied since the late 1800s. There's actually a paper published in 1880 by Galton called the Statistics of Mental Imagery. So long ago, people were quantifying and trying to understand how is it that people come up with mental images and how they can apply that to learning things more quickly and more stably Over time. Now, as I mentioned earlier, mental training and visualization relies on a process that we call neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is a term that many people have heard and encompasses many different things. ([Time 0:07:25](https://share.snipd.com/snip/7db2d06f-e213-4363-b750-fe78497cc712))