PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lucid Dream, Gastrointestinal Physiology, Orthodontics
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We spend 1/3rd of our lives in this sleep state; impacts the other. Societal organization living architecture, hotels, homeless. Sleep safety and sleep-wake is species wide (nocturnal or diurnal, crepuscular) How to manage sleep in demanding 24/7 lives. Common illness, disorders, health impact, life disturbance. Dream function and state awareness (lucid dreaming) and creativity. Athletes, coaches of elite level sport, and sports where sleep deprivation occurs. Death-like, toxic state, poisoned, drunk, where true rest occurs. The state that opens the door to our deep subconscious. Definition of sleep: recurring and reversible state characterized by a reduction in environmental awareness/perceptual disengagement lowered skeletal and muscular motility, partial or complete abeyance of voluntary behaviour and consciousness active brain/neural activity . An interdependent state with wakefulness, each influencing the other. More complex as we ascend evolutionary hierarchy. Paradox: strange, bizarre, puzzling time of clarity. Peripheral to our waking lives, although never totally unconscious. Discontinuity from dream to dream, night to night.
