Stages of Sleep
This type of sleep is characterized by darting movements of the eyes under closed eyelids
What is Rapid Eye Movement
Because of this combination of high brain activity and lack of muscle tone, REM sleep is often referred to as
What is paradoxical sleep
A consistent difficulty in falling or staying asleep, and the most common of the sleep disorders.
What is Insomnia
Opium, Heroin, Fentanyl, Morphine, Oxycodone, Vicodin, methadone, and other prescription pain relievers fall under this drug class
A state of extreme self-focus and attention in which minimal attention is given to external stimuli
What is Hypnosis
This type of sleep is subdivided into three stages distinguished from each other and from wakefulness by characteristic patterns of brain waves.
What is non-REM (NREM)
If people are deprived of REM sleep and then allowed to sleep without disturbance, they will spend more time in REM sleep in what would appear to be an effort to recoup the lost time in REM which is known as
What is REM rebound
Also known as somnambulism, this disorder causes the sleeper to engage in relatively complex behaviors ranging from wandering about to driving an automobile.
What is Sleepwalking
Marijuana, LSD, Peyote, mescaline, DMT, dissociative anesthetics including ketamine and PCP fall under this type of drug class
What is Hallucinogens
The act of focusing on a single target (such as the breath or a repeated sound) to increase awareness of the moment
What is Meditation
During this stage, there is a slowdown in both the rates of respiration and heartbeat.
What is Stage 1 of NREM
The actual content, or storyline, of a dream is called
What is Manifest content
This disorder results in a sense of panic in the sufferer and is often accompanied by screams and attempts to escape from the immediate environment
What is Night Terrors
A drug that tends to suppress central nervous system activity
What is a Depressant
What is the participant is guided to focus on one thing, such as the hypnotist’s words or a ticking watch, and the participant is made comfortable and is directed to be relaxed and sleepy.
Often referred to as deep sleep or slow-wave sleep, during this time, an individual’s heart rate and respiration slow dramatically, and it is much more difficult to awaken someone from sleep during this stage than during earlier stages.
What is Stage 3 of NREM
Refers to the hidden meaning of a dream
What is Latent content
Episodes during which a sleeper’s breathing stops
What is Sleep apnea
A type of amphetamine that can be made from ingredients that are readily available
What is methamphetamine (meth)
The second two components of Hypnosis
What is the participant is told to be open to the process of hypnosis, trust the hypnotist, and let go and the participant is encouraged to use their imagination.
The appearance of K-complexes is often associated with this stage where the body goes into a state of deep relaxation.
What is Stage 2 of NREM
A theoretical repository of information, Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung believed to be shared by everyone.
What is The collective unconscious
Occurs when the muscle paralysis associated with the REM sleep phase does not occur
What is REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
This crisis began in the 1990s, when pharmaceutical companies began mass-marketing pain-relieving opioid drugs like OxyContin with the promise (now known to be false) that they were non-addictive
What is The Opioid Crisis
The central feature of all meditation
What is clearing the mind in order to achieve a state of relaxed awareness and focus