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Psychology Of Dreams & Sleep Disoders

Psychology Of Dreams & Sleep Disoders. Psychology of Dreams. Dreams : a surrealistic mental movie in which events frequently occur in a jumbled up sequence 6 years of our life is spent dreaming Test your state of consciousness Can predict the future Trigger a memory long forgotten.

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Psychology Of Dreams & Sleep Disoders

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  1. Psychology Of Dreams& Sleep Disoders

  2. Psychology of Dreams • Dreams : a surrealistic mental movie in which events frequently occur in a jumbled up sequence • 6 years of our life is spent dreaming • Test your state of consciousness • Can predict the future • Trigger a memory long forgotten

  3. Psychology of Dreams • Dreams seem to be a mystery • Can predict the future • Trigger a memory long forgotten • Sigmund Freud • Believed a patients inner thoughts and forbidden impulses could be found by analyzing dreams • A symbolic expression of our unconscious conflicts

  4. Dream Content • Ordinary Events • Family, Friends, work, or school • Worries, fears, or feeling of inferiority • 70% of dreams are about people we actually know • Bizarre dreams can occur (random firing) • Symbolic & Representative • Lincoln & Ford Theater • 50% of our dreams are in color & the other 50% are in black & white

  5. Why do We Dream? • Some believe it is the time when the brain processes all the information of the day • Activation synthesis theory: the brains attempt to make sense of all the information processed • Necessary Physiological function • REM Sleep • Sigmund Freud: manifest content & latent content • Believed a patients inner thoughts and forbidden impulses could be found by analyzing dreams • A symbolic expression of our unconscious conflicts

  6. Nightmares & Sleep Walking • A frightening dream that only happens In frequent • REM Rebound: an increase in the number of dreams after being deprived of REM sleep • Too much alcohol or not enough sleep • during REM • Sleep Walking & sleep talking run in families • Stage 4

  7. Night Terrors • A horrible dream occurring during NREM, when the body is not prepared for it (incubus attack) • Physical overload sets off major bodily changes • Breathing rate zooms • Person feels choked • Heart-rate 170 beats per-minute • Fear of panic & dying Sleeper usually springs up from bed, sweating, nauseated, & afraid

  8. Sleep Apnea, Insomnia & Narcolepsy • a disorder in which the person will stop breathing during sleep & reawaken because of it • Snoring & less sleep • Recurring problems in failing to fall asleep • Unnatural remedies do not help • Uncontrollable sleep attack lapsing into REM at any given moment • 1 in 2000 people suffer from it

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