Language students have found that if you go over about ten new vocabulary words just before dropping off to sleep, the subconscious mind will start working on them. In the morning, with no further effort, you will know about six of them. So the subconscious does sometimes come through with real efficiency. I didn’t realize it at the time, but in my many years in the Navy aboard ship, the breakfast conversation always seemed to be similar. Usually the subject was the plot