PSY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sleepwalking, Parasomnia, Lucid Dream
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Find your coin and either wake up from it, or change the dream. Advanced lucid dreaming can help with sleep problems. Try to imagine more than just the coin, imagine different objects. We know that it"s necessary for psychological and physical purposes. Evolutionary - sleeping in darkness protected our ancestors from predators. Memory consolidation - you organize, consolidate, and weed out input from the day. Energy conservation - sleeping allows us to save fuel. Cellular repair - beauty sleep, helps to restore and repair brain and body tissue. Scn is cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus. Dr. b"s favorite part of the brain. Responsive to both natural and artificial light. Optic nerve goes right up against it. It sends a signal to the pineal gland to stop producing melatonin. This is normal sleep architecture, there can be abnormalities around this. Awake relaxed, eyes closed (meditation, relaxation) - alpha waves.
