PSY 2012 Lecture 5: PSY2012: Week 5 Chapter 5 Notes
27 Feb 2018
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Sleep paralysis- a strange experience of being unable to move just after falling asleep or immediately on awakening. Caused by a disruption in the sleep cycle and is often associated with anxiety or terror and visions. Consciousness- encompasses our ever-changing awareness of thoughts, emotions, bodily. Fantasy-prone personalities- 2-4% of population that spends at least half of their waking lives in daydreams and fantasies, most people spend 30-50% of their waking lives in daydreams or fantasies. Biological clock- 20,000 neurons in the hypothalamus that make us feel drowsy at different times of the day and night, melatonin is the hormone that causes feelings of sleepiness, which increases after dark. Numerous negative health effects from a lack of sleep. Klein levin syndrome- prolonged sleep for 2-31 days! Doesn"t happen during rem sleep: sexsomnia- engaging in sexual acts while asleep and having no memory of them on awakening.
