- people sleep less as older & proportion of time in REM decreases
- Aging is ofton accompanied by chronic sleep deprivation due to illness, pain, breathing, peeing
STAGES - 1 - transition between wakefulness and clear sleep
- 2 - first bona fide sleep stage point of no return at onset
- 3/4 - Delta
- deepest most relaxed sleep
- physiological relaxation
- slow rolling eye movement
- mundane talking dreams
- growth hormones secretions
- deficient thermoregultion
- REM
- reg similar to waking state
- heightened phisiologocal ctivity
- rapid jerky eye movements
- erection of sexual tissues
- vivid visual dreams
- secreting stress hormones
- reduced by nearly all RREM sleep
- sleep paralysis - cat atone
Cetacean Seep - dolphin - left hemisphere sleeps - right awake; then they switch places
- need this rather than Rem because they have to stay swimming or would die
Typical sleep 0 - go to bed 5-10 - hypnogogic hallucinigations - enter stage 1 sleep 10-15 point of no return bridge between stage 1 & 2; Myoclonic jerk 45 - transition from 2 to delta 70-90 - 1st REM period about 5 mins long; "REM latency; alternates with stage 2 every 90-100 mins 90-100 - succeeding REM periods 420 - 480 - Awakening 7-8 hours Brain Mechanisms in Sleep
- sleep onset i triggered by release of melatonin from pineal gland
- PG is controlled by Pacemaker neurons in Suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus which regulates circa rhythm
- switches between REM and NREM sleep are controlled by multiple areas in hind brain (pons) and midbrain (reticular formation)
- dreams are initiated by the refrohtal lobe
Sleep theories
Anti predator adaptation - forces us to be quiet at certain times of day Restorative - sleep yeps us recover something depleted during wakefulness Facilitates learning - sleep (rem mostly) might help us consolidate memories Thermoregulatory - sleep keeps us from overheating and helps conserve energy all wrong
Dreams - We dream in Rem and Non Rem
- REM dream is more visual and active
- Dream time is real time - no dream condensation
- Few dreams are bizarre - usually daily preoccupations
- Themes of dreams vary little after little each year
- Dream have no known function
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- fried said it was - dream fulfillment & daily recollection of events False
- Dreams can be controlled with practice - lucid dreaming
- Dreams contain more bad outcomes than good, more negative than positive, & aggressive vs friendl
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- Children: fantastical dreams, more about animals than people, more likely to victims than aggressors
- Men tend to have more dreams about men (70%), typically about competition or fighting
- While women dream equal about women and men
- Most sex dreams are not pleasant, often involve people dreamers arent attracted to
- Aggression in mens dreams tends to be physical - much like mens life aggression
- In womens dreams Aggression is relational - just like in real life
- Women dreams otto about weddings & babies
Effects of Sleep Deprivation - Missing 1 night = sleepiness and slight cognitive impairment - no motor impairment