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Winter Final Flashcards

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Prodromal Dreams

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Diagnostic dreams

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Oneirosomatic imagery

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Dream images about bodies

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Paranormal

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Alongside/parallel to normal

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Psi

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Parapsyhological or psychic phenomena

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Supernatural

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Belonging to realm that transcends nature and is beyond scientific understanding

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Psychic

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Regarded as susceptible to supernatural or paranormal influence

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ESP

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Extra Sensory Perception: perception made by other means than the known physical senses.

Types of ESP:

  1. Precognition
  2. Telepathy
  3. Clairvoyance
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Precognition

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Foreknowledge

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Telepathy

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Extrasensory communication between minds

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Clairvoyance

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Ability to gain information via ESP

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Maimonides Medical Center Dream Telepathy Experiments

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  • Ullman and Krippner
  • sleep may create conditions favorable for telepathy
  • set up: sender and recipient, EEG, subjects were considered psychic
  • experiment: subject hooked up to EEG, sender notified of REM. concentrate on image
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Unconscious processing

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Occurs above objective Threshold and below subjective Threshold.

Implications: we are not consciously aware of the experience but our nerves have recorded and unconsciously reacted to the stimuli.

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Webber-Fechner Law

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  • sensation related to intensity of stimulus
  • added idea of subliminal, implying a threshold
  • signal detection depends on SENSITIVITY and RESPONSE CRITERION
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Objective Threshold

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  • stimuli below threshold for conscious perception

- BELIEFS

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Subjective Threshold

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-intensity of stimuli is within conscious perception

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NREM

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  • happens only in first sleep period and long naps
  • high voltage, low frequency delta waves
  • immune system activation
  • positive emotions when awakened
  • repeat of neural firing from day, but not linear order; instead happens in fast bursts
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R.E.M.

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High frequency (beta or alpha) are the same as when awake

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Superposition

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All possibilities exist simultaneously

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Motion in Newtonian Physics

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Things move in continuous trajectories

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Motion in Quantum Mechanics

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-particles and waves are the same: wavicles

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Complimentarity Principle

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Wave-nature and particle-nature are complimentary aspects of the true nature of the wavicle

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Quantum Field Theory

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Chunks of energy interact with other chunks of energy via exchange of other knots of energy.

3 types of exchange particles:

  1. Photons
  2. Gluons
  3. Gravitations
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Spin

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Internal degree of freedom and motion

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Copenhagen interpretation

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Physical systems do not actually have definite properties before being measured. The act of measurement affects the system, which causes the set of probabilities to collapse into one probability.
Observation creates reality. Things can’t exists without being observed.

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Interference pattern

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Pattern that results when two or more waves interfere with one another

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Destructive interference

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Crest of one wave meets trough of another resulting in lower amplitude

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Constructive interference

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Two wave crests line up

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Photon wave packet

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A short burst of localized wave action that travels as a unit

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Photon

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Bundle of waves

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Wave function

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Description of the quantum state of a system

31
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Most effective methods for Lucid Dreaming?

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  1. Meditation

2. Dream journal

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Shrodinger’s box/ wave experiment

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A cat, a flask of poison, and radioactive source are put in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity, the flask shatters and kills the cat with it’s poison. The Copenhagen Interpretation suggests that the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, but if one were to look in the box, they would only see it as alive OR dead. This poses the question of when quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.

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Quantum Superposition

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Any two or more quantum states can be added together and the result will be another valid quantum state. So every quantum state can be represented as the sum of two or more other distinct states.

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EPR Paradox

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The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox:

  • wave function does not provide a complete description of physical reality
  • Copenhagen interpretation is unsatisfactory
  • particles can interact in such a way that it is possible to measure both their momentum and their position more accurately than Heisenberg
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Quantum entanglement

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Pairs or groups of particles interact in such a way that their quantum states cannot be separated from one another. Once together, always together. Mirror each other.

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Quantum entanglement

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Pairs or groups of particles interact in such a way that their quantum states cannot be separated from one another. Once together, always together. Mirror each other.

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Double-Slit experiment

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  • Laser pointed at slits
  • Light waves interfere while passing through slits
  • land in back screen as particles
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Signal detection theory

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-shows how to measure ability to detect signal embedded in noise

39
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AIM model

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Activation
Input/output gating
Modulation
R.E.M. doesn’t guarantee dreams, and dreams can occur outside of R.E.M.

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MILD technique

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Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams

  1. If you wake up during the night, go over your last dream in detail
  2. Intend to become Lucid by suggesting, “next time I’m dreaming, I want to remember to recognize that I’m dreaming.”
  3. Imagine you are back in previous dream and becoming Lucid at appropriate time.
  4. Keep doing steps until intent feels well established. Expect to become Lucid in your next dream.
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CFI

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Concentrated Focus of Intent

Function: to transport dream self from one place or time to another

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Kinds of dream characters

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  1. Inner Ego (awareness behind dreams)
  2. Core Aspect Forms (reps of elements in WPR)
  3. Guides and Guardians (internal self-helper)
  4. Thought forms (insentient)
  5. Independent agents (conscious figure with free will)
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The binding problem

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We process different aspects and times of experience in different parts of the brain.
How do multiple streams of processing in the brain bind together to produce a single, seamless experience?

Suggests: consciousness is not a unity. It is plurality. Our experience is happening at many places and times, but we perceive it to be one experience.

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Quaternity

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Image with a four-fold structure
Usually square or circle
Points to wholeness
Jungian concept

45
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Kuhn’s Paradigm Shift

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Science operates under the same models for an extended period of time until we experience quick and drastic shifts in the paradigm where redefining information is acquired and the models must undergo great changes.

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