The Sleep Cycle

THE SLEEP O What Do Our Dreams Mean? FALLING If you hit the ground, you will die MYTH You 1feel something (eg finances) is going in the wrong direction TEETH FALLING OUT You feel like you may have had loose speech, or are insecure about being unattractive NAKED IN PUBLIC You feel vuinerable, awkward, insecure or you have revealed to much about yourself 70% of people have porienced the hypregegic state CYCLE CHEATING PARTNER You feel that your partner is spending more time on something other than you SEX Integration of new or different ideas represented by your partner BEING CHASED You are avoiding something in real life MOST MEMORABLE DREAMS Dreams are successions of You forget 90% of your dreams images, ideas and emotions that Around SON of sleep is spent in st oCcur involuntary in the mund TWITCHING O How To Lucid Dream Minds Eye during the REM stage of sleep ONE Keep a dream journal Lucid Dreaming TWO Reality check Counting fingers Reading the dock Night Terrors - - Turning on and off lights STAGE Sleep Paralysis REM THREE (MILD) Mnemonically Induced Lucid Dreams - Think of past dreams and imagine being lucid SLEEP STAGE CYCLE FOUR (WILD) Wake Induced Lucid Dream Memorable Dreams -Your mind is awake while your body is asleep NREM SLEEP PARALYSIS STAGE A period of sleep in which you are enable to mave STAGE 3 NIGHT TERRORS Night terrors are a sleep disruption in which the person * How To Deal With Night Terrors e How To Treat Sleep Paralysis? scan happen to 1-6% of children and less than 1% of adults is having a nightmare but is acting it out in such ways as When someone is having a nigh terror your first instinct is to comfort them ONE Sleep regularly yelling, flailing, and thrashine That most likely will not work because remember this person is not awake. TWO Sleep on your side 40-50% of people have experienced sleep pare These are some ways to calm the situation THREE Exercise regularly - Do not try to wake the individual but prevent them form injuring themselves FOUR Eat Healthy - Speak in a calm voice FIVE Find ways to relax Kaep lights dim SIX See your doctor - - Wait out the storm STAGE ONE STAGE TWO STAGE THREE & FOUR REM (rapid eye movement) THE SLEEP WE NEED Reduced in brain activity Light sleep Deep sleep stage Rebuilds muscle and bone Newborn 12-18 hours Awakened easily Peeks in brain activity If awakened may be confused Occurs 90 minutes after onset Infants 14-15 hours Heart rate slows and body Known as Slow Wave sleep Brainwaves are similar to being awake Lasts 5-10 min Toddlers 12-14 hours Unaware you are asleep Temperature decrease Occurs 15-20 minutes after onset REM sleep is highest in infants Preschoolers 11-13 hours School Children 10-11 hours Teenagers 8.5-9 hours Adults 7-9 hours