PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Hypnosis, Sleep Paralysis

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 301
• Professor: Samuel D.Gosling

Document Summary

Hypnosis you"re able to change certain aspects of reality. Affects sense of pain and other senses. Anything and anybody who has a brain needs sleep. Sleep cycle: stage 1: light sleep, stage 2: dozes off and jerks. Maintaining sleep and mobilizing various parts of the body. The more noisy the environment you sleep in, the more spindles: stage 3, stage 4: harder to wake the person up. Rem sleep paradoxical sleep: breathing rates increases, associated with characteristic eye movements, where all the dreaming happens mostly. Dreaming occurs later on in the night. It was the unconscious that was really responsible of what goes on in life: the problem is that nasty stuff happens during the unconscious state. Nasty creatures that engage in sex and violence . He thinks dreams are the royal road to the unconscious . Dreamwork converting horrible thoughts into something acceptable.