Sleep And Dreams Flashcards
____ - Our sleep cycle, biological cycle that occurs over the course of 24 hours (based off the earths day night cycle)
Circadian Rhythm
Sleep debt
When someone does not get enough sleep and build it up over time
___ - When someone goes into a new time zone and our circadian rhythms and environment are different
Jet lag
__ - defined by the types of waves that occur in the brain as we sleep which cycle throughout the day
Sleep stages
____ - what our brain emits when we are awake (short and quick waves)
Beta waves
Waves that appears when we become drowsy which are slower
Alpha waves
Stage of sleep when our sleep is the lightest and easiest to wake up from (theta waves appear from alpha waves, may see vivid images)
Stage 1 of sleep
Delta waves appear during which stage of sleep
Stage 4 of sleep
Breathing is irregular during this type of sleep, heartbeat increases, waves similar to stage 1, dreams occur during this stage
REM sleep
Our most vivid dreams occur during ___
REM sleep
Why do we forget dreams quickly
The mind has difficulty retaining information from one state of consciousness to another
_____ believed that dreams were and extension of our unconscious thoughts, feelings, and wishes expressing themselves. And believed that we dreamed in symbols
Sigmund Freud
_____ content - Underlying meaning of the dream
Latent content
_____ content - actual plot and characters if the dream
Manifest content
____ - Explains why we have dreams of things that happened during that day
Biopsychosocial
