State of consciousness

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• Conscious experience

• Sleep

• Dreams

• Meditation and hypnosis

Conscious experience

• *Consciousness: Our awareness of various cognitive processes, such as sleeping, dreaming, concentrating, and making decisions.

• Waking consciousness: mental state that encompasses the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that occur when we are awake and reasonably alert.

Daydreaming

• Daydreams: apparently effortless shifts in attention away from the here and now into a private world of make believe.

Sleep

Dreams

• Dreams:vivid visual and auditory experiences that occur primarily during REM periods of sleep.

Why do we dream?

• Dreams as unconscious wishes

• Dreams and information processing

• Dream and waking life

• Dreams and neural activity

Meditation and hypnosis

• Meditation: any of the various methods of concentration, reflection, or focusing of thoughts undertaken to suppress the activity of the sympathetic nervous system.

Meditation and hypnosis

• *Hypnosis : trancelike state in which a person responds readily to suggestions.

Coping with occasional insomnia

• Maintain regular bedtime hours; don’t sleep late on weekends.

• Establish a regular bedtime routine that you follow each night before retiring, such as a warm bath, followed by a little reading or writing a letter.

Coping with occasional insomnia

• Abstain from drugs.

• Adjust the temperature of the room if it is too cold or too warm.

• Avoid foods that may cause sleeplessness.

• Establish a regular exercise program during the day.

Coping with occasional insomnia

• Avoid anxious thoughts while in bed.

• Don’t fight insomnia when it occurs. The old saying “ if I can’t sleep, I mop the kitchen floor” will make sense.

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