Why this word is great
HYPNOPAEDIA — [Noun] A method of imparting instruction or information to a sleeping subject. From the combining form hypno- (from Greek hypnos, meaning "sleep") and -paedia (from Greek paideia, meaning "education, upbringing"). Unlike subliminal persuasion, which seeks to influence the conscious mind from below its threshold of awareness, or conditioning, which builds reflexive associations through active, waking repetition, hypnopaedia is a passive, one-way transmission into the silent theater of the night. It is the tinny whisper of a language-tape from a bedside cassette deck at 3 a.m., the authoritarian drone of state-sanctioned morals from a speaker hidden in a dormitory wall, and the faint, hopeful murmur of self-help aphorisms into a desperately willing subject’s pillow—a testament to the fragile, unsettling premise that the self can be edited while its back is turned.