states of consciousness

periods of lost awarenss suffered by someone who hasnt slept for 100 hours

lasts 10 minutes, easily awaken
body twitches

brain wave most prevalent during stage one,
light sleep brain waves

lasts twenty minutes,
alpha waves dissapear and are replaced by bursts of brain activity

spikes or bursts of brain activity

body temp drops, heart rate slows breathing slows
awareness decreases
delta waves replace spindles

delta waves are most prominant
difficult to awaken
sleep walking, talking, bed wetting

deep sleep waves

active sleep; brain waves resemble when awake
everything excellarates, hormones secreted
DREAMS occur!

not enough rem sleep

with each cycle time spent in rem increases
when really tired drops into rem and stays there

the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep

natural hormone secreted to make you sleepy

a hormone, found in milk, that is secreted as a precurser for sleep

a sleep inducing chemical found in turkey

dreams that go bad, during REM

panick attack during stage three or four
no imagry

internal clock

dreams represent hidden wishes, desires, and fears

physiological meaning of dreams; brain is stimulated by bursts of electric discharge at random places in the brain. we try to make sense of them by creating a story line

dreams are both psychological and physiological

being able to control our dreams

when dreams are like a slideshow of pictures

when dreams become like a movie

when we first become a character in our dream

normal dreaming begins

the actual stuff and plotline of the dream

your analysis of the dream, its hidden message

an imagry stage of 'sleeping' before stage one

sleeping dissorders

violently acting out our dreams

brain waves while awak

brain waves while in hypnosis or meditation

too much sleep!

sleep paralysis; during rem chemicals are released to paralyze our mucles, somethimes these chemecles linger

leg TWITCHES

"sleep attacks" falling directly into rem at a given time

the founding fathers of hypnosis

psychological need of a drug, you think you need it to function
habituation

physiological need of a drug, the body craves it

unplesant physiological symptoms of the body craving a drug

you become more and more used to the effects of a drug and will need a higher and higher dossage to aquire the same effect

slow, focused awareness that allow vollunary acts, solving problems and communication

a rapid performance of familiar tasks

rem is also called

stop breathing in sleep and awake snorting for air.
more prominant in obese people

the purpose of dreaming is?

turning ones attantion inward to imagine stimulus that dont exist

suggestions given under hypnosis that are to be caried out when the subject is in a normal state of consciousness

a split in different levels of consciousness that allows behaviors and thoughts to occur at the same time

distraction and relaxation diminish a stimulus, such as pain

hypnotic effect depends on how much the subject allows the hypnotist to direct their actions

dissasociated consciousness is in everyday mindsplits; multitask

drugs that calm neural activivty and slow body funtions
alcohol, heroin, morphine

drugs that temporarily excite neural activity and arouses body functions
caffeen, nicotine, cocain, ecstasy

drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in absense of sensory input
ecstasy, LSD, pot

recording, analyzing and feeding back information about subtle physiological states, uses expensive machinery