Chapter 5.3 DREAMS & SLEEP DISORDER

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Dreams

  • mental experiences during REM sleep
  • story like quality
  • vivid visual imagery
  • perceptually real
  • muscle Antonia (prevents from acting out dreams)
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Dreams contents

  • mundane (familiar settings & people)
  • more tolerant of lapses of logic
  • 1st person perspective
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Freud Dream Interpretation

  • intent is driven by our unconscious wishes
  • LATENT CONTENT (unconscious wish)
  • MANIFEST CONTENT (actual images, thoughts & content within the dream)
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Jung dream interpretation

  • dreams are revelations
  • future oriented
  • recurring
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Lucid dreaming

  • awareness that you’re dreaming
  • can be treatment for nightmares
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Reasons for dreaming

  • problem solving (creative thinking & not bound by logic or inhibitions)
  • information processing (process the day’s events)
  • physiological function (neural development)
  • activation synthesis (brain is firing & any interpretation/narrative is incidental)
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Sleep movement disorder

Somnambulism (sleep walking) & REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder

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Somnambulism

-Sleepwalking
-occurs during NREM sleep

  • unaware of perception & NOT acting out dreams
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REM Sleep behaviour disorder

-often violent or aggressive

  • occurs during REM sleep
  • acting out dreams
    -very aware of the perception
  • precursor to tremors in Parkinson’s disease
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Nightmares vs Night Terrors SIMILARITIES

  • fear response
  • can wake the sleeper
  • more common in children
  • associated with stress
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Nightmares & Night Terrors DIFFERENCES

  • Nightmares more common
  • relationship to dreams
  • sleep cycle (night terrors happen in early stages of sleep)
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Onset insomnia

Difficulty falling asleep

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Maintenance insomnia

Difficulty staying asleep through the night

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Terminal insomnia

Wake up early & can’t fall back asleep

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Rebound insomnia

Having sleep aid removing it

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Secondary insomnia

Exist with other mental health conditions

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Symptoms of insomnia

-fatigue
-impaired cognitive function
-elevated risk of accidents

  • reduced productivity
    -depression
    -anxiety
    -hypertension
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Fatal insomnia

  • prion disease (rare inherited or spontaneous genetic mutation)
  • 4 stages: Increasing insomnia, Hallucinations & panic attack, complete inability to sleep, dementia & unresponsiveness
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Narcolepsy

-sudden and irresistible onset of sleep
-abnormal progression through sleep stages (Type 1 have muscle weakness & Type 2 no muscle weakness)

  • can be genetic or acquired
    -treatment for Type 1: Orexin/Modafinil
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restless legs syndrome

  • feeling of uneasiness and restlessness in the legs after going to bed; may be relieved temporarily by walking or moving the legs
  • dopamine agonists to treat it
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Sleep apnea

-when you stop breathing for a period of time
-snoring, gasping for air & tiredness
-treatment: CPAP
-obstructive type: physical orientation

  • central type: diseases ex. Kidney disease, stroke