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Next to the thalamus, controls movement and forms and stores procedural memory and motor
skills.
Refer to emotionally intense events that become burned in as a vivid seeming memory.
3 weeks
-Amino acid (chemical) that increases
serotonin leverls and therefore leads to
sleepiness.
-Occurs during NREM and stage 2 and 4
-Speaking while asleep. Occurs in NREM
sleep
-Bad dreams, occur during nrem sleep, easily
remembered
-Mentally rehearse the changed dream
before you go to sleep again, may help to
eliminate nightmares.
-Total panic occurs, hallucinations may
occur,occurs during stage 4, not
remembered
Sudden irresistible sleep attacks, may suffer
form catalepsy.
-Sudden, temporary muscle paralysis leading
to complete body collapse
-Interrupted breathing during sleep, cause of
very loud snoring
-Sudden unexplained death of healthy infant
-Emphasizes internal conflicts, motives and
unconscious forces
-Symbolic part Meaning
-Many dreams are expressions of
unconscious desires
-Images that has deeper symbolic part
-Dream content may be affected by motor
commands in the brain that are not carried
out.
-Combining several people, objects or events
into a single dream image
-Directing emotions or actions toward safe or
unimportant dream images
-Expressing feelings or ideas symbolically in
dreams, not literal expression
-Making a dream more logical and adding
detail while remembering it
-Most dreams are a special message about
what is missing in our lives, what we avoid
doing when awake, or feelings that we need
to re-own
-Person feels fully awake within the dream