PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes -Procedural Memory, Hypnotic Induction, Sleep Sex
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Our previous discussion on the normal conscious experience of an awake, sober, self- controlled individual but normal consciousness can be altered by : sleep. Altered state in a sense that it"s very different from being awake: hypnosis. Seems as though people give over their conscious control over their behaviour to the hypnotist. Sometimes evolution-based arguments are too flexible: powerful . We spend 8 hours a day, 1/3 of our life asleep and pathetic. We spend 1/3 of our life defensive-less. When we are lying prone for 1/3 of our lives, then sleep must be playing a critical function. If not, then our ancestors should have slept less: we should have evolved to not having to sleep at all. Sleep is highly relevant so . Hunting and gathering takes energy but when hunting we are getting energy we expend energy to gain energy. In the cave we don"t want to expend/waste energy at night.
