Learning in Dreams.

I'll start this topic off with a simple question, if the answer to this is yes, then the questions following it are allowed to be answered.

1) Can I actually LEARN in a lucid dream. By this I mean for example, I'm having trouble in AP Physics (I really am). Could I read a book about it in the dream and learn it more effectively than in the realistic world?

2) If I can do "whatever I want" in a lucid dream, could I make this ginormous library appear with millions of books on everything in the world and in those books be topics like learning karate or sports knowledge and learn from that even though I've never studied them before?

I guess #2 were true, there would already be millions of really smart people out in the world. But if dreams can potentially show you the future which until it happens is unknown to everybody, why can't you learn about random topics that are unknown to you?

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Dreams are the most peculiar things in the world.

Many people find it very difficult to read while dreaming. That's not how you would want to go about learning in your dream anyway. Instead of performing some tedious process that you go through every day, you'd want to view things from another perspective. I would ponder concepts and use my surroundings as test subjects. Tell yourself that you wish to see things that would be beneficial to your knowledge of physics.

Good luck.

I agree to Etrain. I might add that big part of sleep is about learning. The information is already inside your brain. When you're asleep, this is information is processed over and over. If you have knowledge of a certain problem but haven't quite found the solution, then yes, you can solve the problem during unconscious sleep and also during a dream. Both happened to me and is a well known phenomenon. You can't learn anything 'new' though, of course.

I wonder if you were to quickly skim the pages of a book, since your brain would pick up on every word (if what I've read is correct); then could you pull that information out in your dream in an organised understandable manner.

Of course, you would have to be able to read in the dream, like Etrain said. Maybe you could force yourself to recite the information instead.