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| A persons awarness of feelings,sensations, and thoughts at a given moment |
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| A form of consciousness involving fantasies visually spontaneous that occurs when a person is awake |
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| Internal biological that occur on a daily schedule |
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| Insturment that amplifies and records signals associated with biological changes taken during a night in a sleep labaratory |
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| An increase in the typical amount of REM sleep following reduction of REM sleep owing to sleep deprivation or the use of certain drugs that reduce REM sleep |
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| Complaints of dificulty falling asleep, staying asleep, frequent awakenings or poor quality sleep |
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| Sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and attack of muscle weakness (cataplexy) included by emotion, and hypnagognic hallucinations,the symptoms are due to the extersion of REM sleep due to waking time |
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| A parasomnia that occurs during STAGE 4 sleep usually in children, most often consists of sitting up in bed |
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| Sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breath taking during sleep most prevelant in older, overweight men |
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| Bedwetting, a sleep disorder that occurs primarily in children |
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| Partial awakening from Stage 4 sleep characterized by loud screams and extreme physiological arousal |
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| Frightening dream that usually awakens a sleeper from REM sleep occurs at it's highest rate in children ages 3-6 |
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| Frightening dream that usually awakens a sleeper from REM sleep occurs at it's highest rate in children ages 3-6 |
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| SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) |
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| The unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant up to age 1 that is not explained by autopsy, medical care information , or an investigation of the death scene. |
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| A succession of pre dominatly visual images expierenced during sleep |
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| State of heightened suceptibility to suggestions |
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| Altered State of Conciousness |
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| Fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rythm as a result of jet travel |
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| What characterizes the different stages of our sleep? |
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Non-Rem sleep- sleep stages 1,2,3,4 NREM sleeps consists primarily of stages 3 and 4 (deep sleep)
REM- Sleep stage characterized by rapid-eye-moment, dreams, high level brain activity and muscle paralysis
Slow Wave Sleep-Deep sleep of NREM stages 3 and 4, characterized by delta waves |
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| How successful has hypnosis been in reducing pain as a medical treatment, improving memory recall, and allowing for age regression and changes in perception? |
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