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| our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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| periodic physiological fluctuations |
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| the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hr cycle |
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| cluster in pineal gland that releases light-sensitive retinal proteins |
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| neurotransmitter that delays sleep |
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| relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state (conscious) |
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| periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation |
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| false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus |
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| feeling of falling and jerking awake or floating weightlessly |
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| bursts of rapid, rhythmic brainwave activity |
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| large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep in stage 4 sleep |
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| rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur; aka paradoxical sleep |
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| recurring problems in falling or staying asleep |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep at inopportune times |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings |
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| a sleep disorder characterized bt high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, they occur during stage 4 sleep, w/i 2-3 hrs of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered |
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| a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing thru a sleeping person's mind |
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| according to Freud, the remembered storyline of a dream |
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| underlying meaning of a dream |
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| Information processing theory |
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| sifts, sorts, and fixes the day's experiences into our memory |
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| dreams may provide brain with periodic stimulation to develop and preserve neural pathways |
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| Activation-synthesis theory |
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| neural activity is random, and dreams are brain's attempt to make sense of it |
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| tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (repeated awakenings in REM) |
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| social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur |
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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 in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others |
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| an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death; often similar to drug-induced hallucinations |
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| the presumption that mind are body are two distinct entities that interact |
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| the presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing |
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