PSY 3061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Zolpidem, Depressant, Jet Lag
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Rem sleep looks like wakefulness: most motor pathways are inhibited during rem to prevent a person from acting out his or her dreams. Body is motionless kept still: rem is sometimes called paradoxical sleep because its eeg looks like wakefulness. Bain (eeg) and eye (eog) activity of awake person and rem sleeper look almost identical. Muscle (emg) activity of rem sleeper is almost absent; rem sleep is. Motor-neurons are inhibited during rem. paralyzed: during awake, non-rem. Dreaming is not limited to rem sleep, although it is when most (more than 80%) dreaming takes place : rem dreams: emotional, illogical, sudden shifts in plots, non-rem dreams: shorter, commonplace themes. Persons woken up during rem often recall dreams; less often if woken up during non- The amount of time spent in rem correlates with how long a person thinks he or she has been dreaming. Water droplets on face) presented during rem can be incorporated into one"s dream.
