Stage 1

Hypnagogic Sleep

Basic Information

Brain waves: low amplitude and high frequency“Just drifting off”Stage when your body movements are involuntary and stimuli do not affect you as it would when you're awake. May feel as though your body is either doing a sudden action such as falling off a cliff

Simplicity

The first stage of sleep in a state of sensitive unconsciousness

Individual m ay be awoken by the slightest stimuli

May experience Myoclonia

I.e. Short sleep in the bus from school or to school

Myoclonia

The experience of falling off a cliff or sudden jerks during the first phase of sleep