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11/09/2009

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a state of awareness
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consciousness
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relatively focused thinking about fantasies
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daydreams
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dream content that is similar to events in the persons' walking life
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day residue
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the perceptual experiencepf one's body or surroundings become disorted or unreal in some way
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depersonalization
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drugs that reduce the activity of the central nervous system, leading to a sense of relazation, drowsiness, and lowered inhibitions
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depressants
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the splitting off of two concious activities that occur simultaneously
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divided consciousness
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conscious awareness during sleep that primarily occurs during REM sleep
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dreaming
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false perceptual experiences that disort reality
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hallucinogens
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relazed state of dreamlike awareness between wakefulness and sleep
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hypnagogic state
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altered state of consciousness in which the individual is highly relazed and asucesptible to suggestions
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hypnosis
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toxic substances that produce a sense of intoxications when inhaled
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inhalants
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according to fredm, the true meaning of dreams that is found in the symbols in the manifest content
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latent content
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accordinf to freud the literal meaninf of dreams
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manifest content
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several methods of focusinf concentration away from thoughts and feelings and generating a sense of relazation
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meditation
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the state of focusing conscious awareness completely on what is going ton tat the present moment
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mindfulness
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an abrupt movement that sometimes occurs during the hypnagogic state inwhich the sleeper often experiences a sense of falling
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myclonia
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upsetting nocturnal experiences that occur during preschoolg age childr
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night terrors
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narcotic drugs dreived from the opium poppy
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opiates
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the various classes of drugs including stimulants and hallucinogenos
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psychotropic drugs
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REM sleep
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rapid eye momvement sleep
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sleep walking
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walking and carrying on complicated activities during the deepest REM
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drugs that increase the activity of motivational centers in the brain, providing a sense of energy and well being
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stimulants
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stimuli occurring durring sleep that are incorporated into dreams either directly or ain altered form
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stimukus incorporation
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altered state of consicusness, sometimes achieved during meditation, that is said to trascenden normal human experience
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trasendental state
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the prat of the mind of which we can never be aware fof
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uncosiouss mind
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