Vocabulary
A state of awareness, including a person’s feelings, sensations, ideas and perceptions.
Consciousness
a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements, a high level of brain activity, a deep relaxation of the muscles, and dreaming.
(Rapid Eye Movement) REM Sleep
This involves cessation of breathing during sleep
What is sleep apnea?
The state involves daydreaming, deep sleep and awareness
What is known as consciousness
What is another name for REM sleep?
Active sleep
Walking or carrying out behaviors while asleep.
Sleep walking
These waves are present when the body begins to relax and starts to prepare itself for sleep.
Alpha waves
Sleeping pills and alcohol can help, but also worsen this sleeping disorder.
What is insomnia?
In this state you are physically unable to awaken
What is unconscious
With a night terror the person may suddenly awaken or have a persistent fear that occurs at night. People usually have no memory of night terrors.
Frightening dreams, commonly known as nightmares, can occur during the dreaming phase of REM sleep. A nightmare may frighten the dreaming sleeper, who will often wake up with a very vivid memory of an overly terrifying dream.
A condition characterized by suddenly failing asleep or feeling very sleepy during the day.
Narcolepsy
These waves are present when we are in stage 4 sleep which is our deepest level of sleep.
Delta waves
Raoul suddenly fell asleep while driving. He suffers from this disorder.
What is narcolepsy?
The inner thoughts and feelings that you are not totally aware of
What is your subconscious
How many Americans are affected by Sleep Apnea- frequent interruptions of breathing during sleep.
12 million
A prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep—has many causes and takes many forms. It may be caused by anxiety or depression. Overuse of alcohol or drugs can also cause this.
Insomnia
How much time does a human spend asleep?
Approximately 1/3 of a human's life is spent asleep.
The sleep disorder in which a person has trouble falling or staying asleep.
What is Insomnia?
A scale used to assess your state of consciousness
What is the Glascow Coma Scale
What is the state between being awake and falling asleep.
What is the hypnagogic state?
Knowing that you are dreaming while dreaming
What are lucid dreams?
When we travel and experience "jet lag" we feel a little disoriented because of the time difference. Why do we feel disoriented?
This feeling happens when our internal circadian rhythms do not match the external clock time. For example, when you travel from New York to Moscow, Russia your body is on a different time clock when you reach Moscow. You may feel tired and disoriented. It usually takes about one day for each hour of time change to reset your circadian clock.
These dreams involve being terrified during sleep and are not remembered.
What are night terrors?
The underlying cause of a coma
What is damage to your reticular activating system
Freud said the story line of our dreams often incorporates experiences and preoccupations from the days events, especially in our first dreams of the night
What is manifest content?