How did Rocky become smarter as he got older?

[Bobby00]

He barely talked in the first movie so your just looking at someone who looks retarded.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

For real? Even the parts about becoming friends with Apollo, then Apollo later dying and then his illegitimate child growing up to be a boxer many years later then going out to seek his uncle Rocky to train?

That's a long ass a coma. Adrian and Mickey waited a long time before pulling that plug.

Dreams don’t work in real time. The average person only dreams two minutes a night, but a dream can seem like it was really long. Rocky II through Creed II were probably just a couple of weeks or months of dreams before they pulled the plug.

 

[mixmastermo]

Dreams don’t work in real time. The average person only dreams two minutes a night, but a dream can seem like it was really long. Rocky II through Creed II were probably just a couple of weeks or months of dreams before they pulled the plug.

You have a point. I'm just saying it must have been a super elaborate dream, wouldn't have been over in a few minutes.

But I see what you are getting at overall. In Rocky IV Rocky Balboa successfully ended the cold war with his stump speech but in RL that shit lasted another 6 years.