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| State of being unable to move just after falling asleep or right before waking up |
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| Our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives |
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| cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24 hour basis in many biological processes |
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term for the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
in the hypothalamus thats responsible for controlling our levels of alertness |
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| Rapid eye movements (REM) |
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| darting of the eyes underneath the closed eyelids during sleep |
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| stages 1 through 4 of the sleep cycle, during which eye movements do not occur and dreaming is less frequent and vivid |
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| stage of sleep during which the brain is most active and during which vivid dreaming occurs most often |
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| experience of becoming aware that one id dreaming |
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| difficulty falling and staying asleep |
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| urge to move our legs or other body parts, often while attempting to sleep |
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| disorder characterized by the rapid and often unexpected onset of sleep |
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| disorder caused by the blockage of the airway during sleep, resulting in daytime fatigue |
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| sudden waking episodes characterized by screaming, perspiring, and confusion followed by a return to a deep sleep |
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| walking while fully sleeping |
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| activation-synthesis theory |
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| theory that dreams reflect inputs from brain activation originating in the pons, which the forebrain then attempts to weave into a story |
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| out-of-body experience (OBE) |
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| sense of our consciousness leaving our body |
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| out of body experiences reported by people who've nearly died or thought they were going to die |
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| feeling of reliving an experience thats new |
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| feeling of unity or oneness with the world |
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| set of ritualized practices that train attention and awareness |
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| set of techniques that provides people with suggestions for alterations in their perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors |
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| past life regression therapy |
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| therapeutic approach that hypnotizes and supposedly age-regresses patients back to the previous life to identify the source of a present day problem |
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| \pproach to hypnosis based on peoples attitudes, beliefs, and expectations |
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| approach to explaining hypnosis based on the separation between personality functions that are normally well integrated |
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| chemically similar to those found naturally in our brains that alter consciousness by changing chemical processes in neurons |
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| drug that exerts a calming effect |
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| drug that exerts a sleep inducing effect |
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| reduction in the effect of a drug as a result of repeated use, requiring users to use a greater amount |
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| unpleasant effects of reducing or stopping consumption of a drug that users consume habitually |
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| disorientation, confusion, visual hallucinations, and memory problems, sometimes resulting from alcohol withdrawal |
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| auditory hallucinations, sometimes accompanied by paranoid beliefs, resulting from alcohol withdrawal |
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| drugs that increase activity in the central nervous system, including heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure |
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| drugs that relieve pain and induce sleep |
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| causing dramatic alterations of perception, mood, and thought |
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