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| the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state, like in meditation(p 72) |
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| the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep. Delta sleep is our deepest sleep, the point when our brain waves are least like waking. |
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Protects: suits our ecological niche
Sleep helps us recuperate: restore and repair brain tissue
Making memories: restore and rebuild fading memories of the day
Feeds Creative Thinking: inspired noteworthy achievements
Play role in the growth process: pituitary gland releases growth hormone |
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| electron could drop from a higher-energy orbit to a lower one, emitting a photon |
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| marched troops into Italy |
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| Light sleep, you can be easily woken up. Eye and body movements slow down. Sudden ‘jerky’ movements |
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| 50% of your time is spent sleeping in stage 2 sleep |
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| First stage of deep sleep. Very difficult to wake one up. |
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| Second stage of deep sleep. Very difficult to wake one up. |
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| Rapid Eye Movement, sleep is the sleep stage in which dreaming occurs. Heart and blood pressure increases |
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| the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakening during REM sleep) page 83? |
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| Some people hardly ever dream? |
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| Dreams usually last only a few seconds? |
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| FALSE. dreams can last anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, the most common being 20 minutes |
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| What percentage of people dream in color? |
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| 75% But actually closer to 100%, he said it’s not 100 because blind people have no concept (memory) of color, and 75% was the highest answer he gave. |
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| Dreams are necessary for Survival? |
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| Dreams are necessary for Sanity? |
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| FALSE. If you don't dream you just become irritable. |
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| Which is better, one hour’s sleep or no sleep at all? |
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| It is dangerous to awaken a sleepwalker. If you let them walk, they won’t get hurt. |
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All mammals dream?
All birds?
All reptiles? |
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| Are nightmares the worst scare? |
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| Too much sleep as bad as too little? |
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| Effects of REM deprivation |
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| (most common in males) a sleep disorder where the paralysis (muscle relaxation) that normally occurs is incomplete or absent, allowing the person to “act out” his or her dreams (talking, yelling, kicking, punching, grabbing , etc.) |
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| a dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming |
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| Developmental aspects of sleep and dreams (i.e. how sleep and dreams change from prebirth to old age) |
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| Newborns need an average of 16-18 hours of sleep, children 13-14, gradually decreasing to 8.5 hours for teenagers and 8 hours the rest of the way. However, over age of about 40 the number of nocturnal awakenings increases. You start REMing as a fetus around 23 weeks old. Around age 5-6, you are the CENTER of your dream. |
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| (usually used in therapy) provides the ability to go back and recall memories with much greater clarity; not uncommon to re-experience events exactly as they happened; practical applications include dealing with fears |
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| a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors |
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| a split between different levels of consciousness; ex. Arm in ice water—hypnosis dissociates the sensation of the pain stimulus from the emotional suffering that defines their experience of pain; feels cold but not painful because subject is so caught up in the hypnotized role that she IGNORES the cold |
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| refers to a person’s sexual attractiveness; means everyone has certain kind of magnetism, and when stars are out of place, you could straighten out magnetism with lode stone. |
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| What hypnosis can and cannot do |
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| Everything you can do when you’re hypnotized you can do when you’re not; just a matter of thinking about it more |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times |
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| a sleep disorder in which a person intermittently stops breathing during sleep, deprives them of slow-wave sleep |
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| target mostly chidren, characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified, they occur during stage 4 sleep, they are seldom remembered |
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