Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sleep Deprivation, Reuptake, Drug Tolerance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

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Dreams occur throughout the sleep cycle: tend to dream more as morning approaches. Rem dreams: have a vivid, story-like quality, most dreaming occurs during this stage, most nightmares also occur during rem sleep. Slow-wave (deep) sleep: brief often a single vision/feeling/image. Very intense panic, coupled with physiological response. More like a feeling or single image (being crushed under and. What do we dream about? oppressive weight: most dreams are actually really boring. May be slightly illogical or implausible, but typically are still sensible, realistic worlds. Just like real life, we tend to remember the more exciting things. 30-50% of people have had a dream of flying. But flying dreams are not at all common (less than 0. 1%: not all dreams are blissful . 33% involve misfortune: experiences shape our dreams. About 50% of dream content reflects our previous day. In the weeks following 9/11 about 10% of nyc residents had dreams that related to the attacks.