PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sensory Deprivation
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Lecture 17: altered states of consciousness part 1 and 2. Keeping energy use low: if it wasn"t important, it would be taken out through evolution, we don"t know what sleep is for. During sleep, the brain releases drugs that paralyze the body. You spend a lot of time in deep sleep during the night. As the cycles progress, deep sleep decreases and rem increases. Sleep and physical repair: sleep is somehow restorative. There was no relationship when studying people running the. If you look at a range of athletic activities, sleep had a different affect on the severity of the athletic activity. A marathon doesn"t need much thinking and planning. Anything that needs deep conscious thought needs sleep. Consolidation: sleep can help you remember things learned the previous day, messing with rem matters, if you mess with peoples dreams day after day, they will hallucinate and misrecognize things.
