Sleep
Dreams
Unseen
Processes
States of Consciousness
Misc.
100
The inability to get enough sleep.
Insomnia
100
Stage of sleep in which dreams occur.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM)
100
Sequences of behavioral changes that occur every 24 hours.
Circadian Rhythms
100
An organism’s awareness of, or possibility of knowing, what is happening inside or outside itself.
Consciousness
100
The act of moving around in your sleep.
Sleepwalking
200
The stage of sleep that is the deepest.
Stage 4
200
Frightening dream that occurs during REM. Usually quite vivid.
Nightmare
200
The process of altering a free-running cycle to fit a different rhythm.
Entrainment
200
The state of deep relaxation that occurs during hypnosis.
Trance
200
Disorder in which a person falls instantly into sleep no matter what is going on in the person’s environment.
Narcolepsy
300
A condition in which a person's breathing often stops while the person is asleep.
Sleep Apnea
300
A term for all stages that are not REM sleep.
Non Rapid Eye Movement (NREM)
300
Internal chemical units that control parts of the body all by themselves and are programmed and regulated by nature.
Biological Clocks
300
Consciousness just below our current level of awareness.
Subconsciousness
300
A form of therapy in which a hypnotist helps a person relive their early childhood.
Age regression
400
Relaxed state just before we go to sleep.
Twilight state
400
A horrible dream that occurs during NREM sleep. Relatively vague.
Night Terror
400
A belief in something that cannot be seen or touched, but evidence indivates it exists.
Construct
400
State of consciousness where an organism is unaware of its surroundings.
Unconsciousness
400
Type of brain waves observed when a person is awake.
Beta waves
500
Slow, lazy, deep-sleep brain waves. Occur in Stage 4 sleep.
Delta waves
500
An increase in the number of dreams after being deprived of REM sleep.
REM Rebound
500
Cycles set up by biological clocks that are under their own control, ignoring the environment.
Free-running Cycles
500
State of relaxation in which attention is focused on certain objects, acts, or feelings.
Hypnosis
500
A form of self-control in which the outside world is cut off from consciousness.
Meditation
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