By the age of 6 months a circadian rhythm is established and by the age of 1 year infants are usually sleeping mainly at night, with 1 or 2 naps during the day. The periods of deep sleep lengthen and there is a reduction in the amounts of active/REM sleep. Sleep patterns change during childhood and by the age of 5, children have EEG patterns that look like those of an adult but they are still sleeping more (around 12 hours a day) and having more REM activity (about 30% of total sleep time). Boys are also found to sleep slightly more than girls. As childhood progresses, the need for sleep decreases, but in adolescence it increases slightly, to around 9 or 10 hours a night.
It is typical during a sleep terror for a person to scream, sweat, have a rapid pulse and sit up in bed. The person having a sleep terror may appear to be awake, but are unable to communicate. Most people will not respond to soothing words or comfort, they may try to run away. This event will last 20 minutes or less, then the person will lie down and go back to
There is also a stage of sleep called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In this stage of sleep, the EEG shows irregular, low voltage fast waves. This is also known as paradoxical sleep. Any person that falls asleep goes through stages 1 and slowly progresses to stages 2, 3 and 4 in order then after an hour of sleep, the person goes from stage 4 to 3, 2, and then to REM sleep. This sequence repeats, with each cycle, lasting about 90 minutes.
Surveys show that teens rely on naps to make them more refreshed. You should only take at the maximum a 45 minute nap anything more than that disrupts your biological clock and this is what causes you to wake up angry or irritable from a nap. Other factors also play a role in getting good night’s sleep. For example, caffeine plays a huge part in not getting any sleep, 31% of adolescents surveyed said that they cannot sleep after drinking a caffeine drink before bed. Technology also has a huge role in not getting to sleep.
Didion (1994) stated, ““Three, four, maybe five times a month, I spend the day in bed with a migraine headache, insensible to the world around me(para. 1).” Immediately I am put in Didion shoes being a victim myself of another kind of headache issue myself. The use of Pathos is quite clear within the first sentence not to let alone this entire essay. Didion (1994) stated, “It was a long time before I began mechanistically enough to accept migraine for what it was: something with which I would be living, the way people live with diabetes(para. 3).” This statement grasps at many readers roots as most of us either know someone with or have diabetes.
I am a 55 year old woman with high blood pressure, among other physical health issues. I have also been diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Therefore, among my various different medications, I take blood pressure medications, heart medications, anti-depressant medication, and anxiety medication which all make me very drowsy during the daytime. Although these medications make me drowsy during the day, I try to stay very active and awake because, no matter what, I have problems sleeping through the night. I believe that the medications I am prescribed for my health issues present me with biological factors which influence my sleep patterns.
The focus of this paper is to find those answers; and for me to generalize an opinion about what they mean to me. Everyone remembers the dream or dreams they have while they are in deep R.E.M (Random Eye Movement) sleep however there are few that can actively and accurately recall their dreams from short term memory less than two hours subsequently. Why is this I ask my readers? What tricks do our minds play on us to induce this amnesia like effect on our brains? In addition to this why does our brain dream what it dreams and where do these dreams come from.
Chapter Four: Consciousness: Sleep, Dreams, Hypnosis, and Drugs * Understanding consciousness necessarily involves subjective experience. * An altered state of consciousness that may also be a natural state could be sleeping and hypnosis. * Hypnogogic sleep typically lasts for five minutes. * Your brain first begins to produce delta waves in the third stage of sleep. * One’s genitals will typically be aroused during REM sleep provided one’s dream is not anxiety provoking.
A third. That is a shocking statistic to me. Thirty three percent of your life is spent unconscious and inactive. In my informative speech I described something called Lucid Dreaming. If you don’t remember, lucid dreaming, as defined by Stephen LaBerge in his book Lucid Dreaming, is recognizing and being fully conscious that you are dreaming while dreaming (LaBerge, 1971).
Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out daily tasks. The symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe; they are very different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through. The results of bipolar disorder symptoms can result in damaged relationships, poor performance in work or school, and even suicide. However, bipolar disorder can be treated and people with the illness can lead full lives as if they did not even have the disorder. The disorder usually develops between the late teens and the early adult years; most cases start before the age of twenty five.