States of Consciousness

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Across
  1. 1. Biological rhythm that occurs over approximately 24 hours
  2. 3. Result of insufficient sleep on a chronic basis
  3. 5. Brain’s control of switching between sleep and wakefulness as well as coordinating this cycle with the outside world
  4. 9. Hidden meaning of a dream, per Sigmund Freud’s view of the function of dreams
  5. 10. People become aware that they are dreaming and can control the dream’s content
  6. 12. Clearing the mind in order to achieve a state of relaxed awareness and focus
  7. 14. Sleep-deprived individuals will experience longer sleep latencies during subsequent opportunities for sleep
Down
  1. 2. State of extreme self-focus and attention in which minimal attention is given to external stimuli
  2. 4. Storyline of events that occur during a dream, per Sigmund Freud’s view of the function of dreams
  3. 6. The tendency to maintain a balance, or optimal level, within a biological system
  4. 7. A theoretical repository of information shared by all people across cultures, as described by Carl Jung
  5. 8. A consistent difficulty in falling or staying asleep for at least three nights a week over a month’s time
  6. 11. Endocrine structure located inside the brain that releases melatonin
  7. 13. A hormone secreted by the endocrine gland that serves as an important regulator of the sleep-wake cycle