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| our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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| periodic physiological fluctuation |
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| our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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| the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on 24 hour cycle |
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| rapid eye movement sleep a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur |
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| relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed awake state |
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| periodic, natural reversible loss of consciousness state we do not know we are in |
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| false sensory experiences such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus |
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| the large slow brain waves associated with deep sleep |
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| recurring problems in falling or staying asleep |
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| sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. the sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep often at inopportune times |
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| sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings |
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| sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified |
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| a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind. |
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| the remembered story line of a dream |
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| the underlying meaning of a dream |
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| tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation. being woken up during REM sleep and then sleeping like a baby after that |
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