Dreams + Consiousness

Preconscious

anything that could potentially be brought into the conscious mind.

Nonconscious

any mental process that goes on in which the individual is unaware and which he/she cannot become aware of, even with introspection

Unconscious

• feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness.

• contents that are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict.

Dual Proccessing

process info on conscious and unconscious level at same time

Hypothalamus

• regulate body temp, blood pressure, pulse, blood sugar levels, hormone levels

Circadian Rhythm

• regulate sleep wake cycle

• influences when wake up/fall asleep

• responds to light and darkness

Sleep

Complex combo of states of consciousness

Hypnagogic state

• relaxed, fail to respond to outside stimuli

• first stage of sleep: Non-Rem-1

REM sleep

90 mins after falling asleep

NIghtmares

• frightning dreams occuring during REM sleep

Lucid dreaming

• aware of and directs one dreams 

Insomnia

inability to fall asleep/stay asleep

Narcolepsy

• awake person suddenly and uncontrollably falls asleep

• directly into REM

Sleep apnea

temporary cessations of breathing that wake the sufferer up

Nigh Terrors

• frequent childhood sleep distruptions

• deepest part of NREM-3

Sleepwalking

• aka somnambulism

• NREM-3

• Trips out of bed completing complex activities

Hypnosis

• altered state of reality

• Focused attention

• Heightened suggestibility

• Used for stress, pain, habits

Dissociation theory

a mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity

Meditation

• focus concentration away from thoughts/feelings to create calmness

Pyschoactive drugs

chemicals that pass thru blood brain barrier to alter perception, thinking, behaviour, mood 

Freud analysis of dreams

uncover the unconscious desire and fears

Manifest content

story line of dream

Latent content

underlying meaning

Activation synthesis theory

Dreams are the brain’s way of making sense of random neural activity during sleep