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SLEEP
Sleep stages are defined in terms of brain-wave patterns, which are measured by
an EEG – the sticky pads all over your head that record electrical activity in the
brain. *if you have any…-_-**
There are two (2) major types of sleep
REM sleep, a stage of sleep characterized by rapid
eye movements, a high level of brain activity, a deep
relaxation of the muscles and dreaming
This is the time when we will dream.
“Active sleep”
15 minutes (beginning of night) to 45 minutes
(end of night)
Your voluntary muscles are paralyzed.
-Why do you think this is?
NREM sleep. This stands for non-rapid eye
movement and is the other type of sleep.
Where we spend the majority of our sleep time
Divided into 4 stages (first four)
Decreases in length as nights’ sleep
progresses.
“Quiet sleep”
NOT TOO QUIET…..
Bed-wetting, sleepwalking, and talking in
one’s sleep all occur during NREM sleep.
How many
different stages
do you see?
Where is REM
sleep located?
NREM NREM NREM NREM
REM SLEEP
Now something strange happens
- breathing is irregular
- blood pressure rises
- heart beats faster
- you have entered REM sleep (Rapid Eye
Movement)
During a typical 8 hour night people move through the
stages 5 times, with each passing REM sleep stage
becoming longer and longer. (up to 45 minutes or a little
longer)
Sleep paralysis
Lucid dreaming
Sleep Learning
• We might not be able to learn while we are
UNCONSCIOUS, but by getting ENOUGH sleep
we can help ourselves LEARN WHILE
CONSCIOUS.
Theories on WHY we Sleep
We Sleep to Rest
• We are highly active during the day and we use a lot
of energy so AWAKE is only a temporary state. We
are awake to feed and reproduce.
• We sleep to gain relief from this highly active state so
we can function normally both physically and
mentally while awake.
We Sleep to Heal and Grow
• Sleep also allows us to physically heal our
bodies. This is marked by the constant growth
and repair of the body's immune and nervous
systems, as well as our muscles and bones.
We Sleep to Learn
• Sleep may help the human brain get better organized - by filing away
important memories and discarding unwanted information.
• Other sleep experiments have shown that procedural memory (your
ability to perform certain skills) is dependent on REM sleep. Similarly,
declarative memory (your knowledge of facts) relies on getting enough
NREM Sleep.
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In a study by Turner et al, 40 people were allowed only 26 minutes sleep per night.
They were given cognitive tests which showed their working memory deteriorated
by 38% over four days. Without REM sleep, they found it much harder to complete
memory tasks and solve problems.
We Sleep to Dream
• Everybody dreams, every night (even if you don't remember
them). Dreams are an expression of our unconscious thoughts
and conscious experiences. They are so important that if we
are seriously sleep deprived, we actually start to dream while
awake.
An Overview
• See you in my altered state of consciousness
5 stages of sleep review
• 1. A sequence of bodily changes that occurs
every 24 hours is know as?
• 2. What is the lightest stage of sleep?
• 3. The most vivid dreams occur during which
stage of sleep?
• 4. Mr. Baird most likely wets the bed during
NREM or
REM sleep
• 5. The sleep cycle can be compared to riding
what?
DREAMS
Controlling your dreams!!!
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSX51xBk
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Why do we dream ted-ed
• Ted-ED
Did you know?
• Dreams have been a mystery for philosophers, poets,
scientists, and many others for centuries
• Dreams can be in black-and-what or in full color.
• People who go blind after seven years of age do report
visual dreams in the same way we perceive them. It
seems the longer you experience the world with sight,
the longer you will go on dreaming visually.
Someone who goes blind in their senior
years can experience vivid dreams for many years after
losing their sight.
• People born blind will experience dreams in forms of
their other sensations, but emotionally their dreams
are very similar to the seeing. More nightmares
though, thought to be because of fears-dangers
When and How Long?
• We have our most vivid dreams during REM
sleep.
– These are usually the dreams that feel very
realistic, and we can sometimes recall exact
information
– Our REM dreams usually take place in real time.
• 10 minutes = 10 minutes
• During NREM sleep, plots are vaguer and
images are less clear/obvious.
Remembering?
• It is very difficult for humans to recall
their dreams because they are moving
between levels of consciousness. (moving
from sleeping to awake)
What if we could watch what we were
dreaming?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxJhpLo
FFU
Function of Dreams
• Freudian view (for test)
– Said to be the Father of Psychoanalysis
(what is driving our behavior)
• Dreammoods.com (for test)
– Phone app
Sigmund Freud
• “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious”
• Freud was the first theorist in the modern era to
argue that dreams are an important part of our
emotional lives.
• Dreams contain clues to thoughts and desires
that are hidden in our subconscious.
Freudian View
• Freud called the actual dream content the
MANIFEST content
• Freud said that the manifest content was used
to hide the actual deep, dark secrets of our
dreams. The manifest content is thought to
disguise the LATENT content. (hidden
messages from the subconscious)
Freudian Way
• Manifest content is listed (actual dream)
• Dreamer associates the manifest content with
what they ACTUALLY believe the content
means!
– While thinking of associations the dreamer does
not sit and think hard about this, it’s the FIRST
thing that pops into their consciousness when
thinking of the dream symbol.
How do we tap into the latent
content?
• Free association
– Write down all the symbols from your dream in a
column
– One by one go through the symbols and picture them
each individually
– Right when you picture the symbol, write down the
FIRST thing you think of
• Freud said these free associations come straight
from our subconscious mind.
– Example- RED….?
Baird Dream Circa 2015
• I was sleeping in my childhood house, but the
house was located at my current residency. I
woke up and looked out my window to see a
car (trucks) chase through the golf course. The
trucks were not on the grass at all but instead
on the gravel pathways. The trucks left the golf
course and the first truck got t-boned by a cop
car which then caused a big pile-up of cars.
Etc….
Unmasking Manifest Content
• Manifest Content
Content
• Childhood house
• Golf course
• Looking out a window
• Seeing a chase
• Trucks
• Gravel road
• Leaving a place then getting hit
• Car pile up
• cops
Latent
Using Dreammoods to Interpret
– Dreammoods.com
• Identify SYMBOLS from your dream (manifest content)
– Every detail is a symbol that can be searched
– The more specific the details you look up, the more detailed your
interpretation may be.
– Example– Manifest content of my dream -A green goblin
• Search GOBLIN and GREEN separate and you’ll find the
possible latent content
Dreammoods.com
Manifest Content
Running from someone
Clouds
Goblin
Green
Hot air balloon
Colorful sky
Piano
Upside down
Outer space
Dreammoods.com App(LATENT)
Dreammoods.com
Manifest Content
Dreammoods.com App(LATENT)
Running from someone
Problem in your life
Clouds
Your life is clearing up
Goblin
Negative person
Green
Hope
Hot air balloon
Get over depression
Colorful sky
Romance
Piano
Harmony in life
Upside down
Need to straighten up
Outer space
Someone has shown up in your
life unexpected
Putting it together
• I am running from relationship issues, while being
chased by an unexpected romantic interested
that I perceive to be negative because of
pessimism. The romantic interest is trying to help
me get over depression and show me that
relationships are not all bad, if I just stop running
I will find harmony…
• WOOOOAH. Dreammoods.com you need to
relax!
• All up in my business!!!