Mark Solis Professor Blua Health Education June 5, 2014 Narcolepsy Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder that affects the control of sleep, excessive daytime sleepiness and intermittent, uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep during the daytime. These sudden sleep attacks can occur during any type of activity at any time. In a typical sleep cycle, we initially enter the early stages of sleep followed by deeper sleep stages and ultimately REM sleep, which is the deepest sleep on endures. For those suffering from narcolepsy, REM sleep occurs almost immediately in the sleep cycle. It is in REM sleep that we can experience dreams and muscle paralysis, which explains some of the symptoms of narcolepsy, like the most common, immediately
Despite their appearance, sleep terrors are not nightmares. Nightmares are vivid dreams that occur during REM sleep, and most people can recall most or all of their nightmares. ( http://stanfordhospital.org/clinicsmedServices/clinics/sleep/sleep_disorders/nighttime-sleep-behaviors.html) On the other hand, sleep terrors occur during the deepest stages of sleep when dreaming does not occur. Commonly one who has a sleep terror cannot recall what was so frightening to them. It is typical during a sleep terror for a person to scream, sweat, have a rapid pulse and sit up in bed.
* Which of the following statements regarding dreams is TRUE? While we do not know definitively why we dream, we do know how we dream. * Of the following, melatonin is a hormone. * Another work for a morning person is “lark.” * Suppose Irene suffers from sudden attacks of extreme drowsiness and even sleep. As such, she appears to have narcolepsy.
Reading Response #2 The article "Quiet! Sleeping Brain at Work" shows a side of our complex brain that we might did not know. It basically talks about how our brain is active during sleep. It is hard to imagine that while we are in a state where we are not aware, our brain is processing all the information captured during the day. It seems that our brain is designed to collect knowledge during daytime and analyze them at nighttime.
Experimental Research PSY/285 February 17, 2013 Experimental Research Pharmaceutical Research: Sleeping Aids There are many different kinds of sleeping aids that can help someone fall asleep today. Insomnia is when a person has a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep, or a disturbance in the quality of sleep a person gets that will make them feel they are not well rested when they do wake. Insomnia is more common today then we think, about 10% of adults suffer from severe insomnia. Lack of sleep may cause someone to have no motivation, mood swings, and not be able to function to their full potential. Insomnia has also been known to cause depression, anxiety, and stress, which in turn can cause other health problems.
I also want to show an example of different people going through tests to show when they are at REM sleep. This topic is very relevant become everyone sleeps and everyone dreams but not everyone remembers what they dream and
~William DementDreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~Edgar CayceI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~Henri AmielThere's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. ~Stoddard King, Jr.Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all
November 29th, 2012 S1836597 AP Psychology When one goes to sleep for the night, his or her body and mind do phenomenal things while unconscious. There are two types of sleep, NREM and REM, and there are five major sleep cycles which a person undergoes nightly. Every 75 through 100 minutes a sleeper undergoes these stages. These are sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and REM. The first stage of sleep lasts for about 5-10 minutes as you are falling asleep.
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). Today you will learn that lucid dreaming can benefit your life in positive ways and enhance your sleep and overall well-being. Transition: First, let’s take a closer look at that statistic. I. We are sleeping a third of our lives away.
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.