Across
- 2. Irregular sleeping periods or excessive daytime sleepiness
- 6. Sleep disorder that causes individuals to temporarily stop breathing while asleep.
- 7. Defined as “paradoxical” sleep since the body is externally calm and the brain activity is highly active and aroused.
- 9. The most common altered form of consciousness.
- 10. These typically occur in REM sleep and are more closely related to dreams.
- 12. drugs that cause the user to feel increased alertness, have affected mood and can even boost athletic performance.
- 14. Best summarized as panic attacks from the deepest stage of sleep (stages 3-4).
- 15. Sleeping disorder where a patient may physically or verbally act out their dreams.
Down
- 1. Common sleep disorder that troubles those who wish to fall asleep or stay asleep for long.
- 3. Naturally altered state of consciousness with a heightened state of suggestibility.
- 4. Psychological “need” towards a drug. Patients who are dependent often think they need to use a drug.
- 5. ____ dreaming is where the dreamer has almost or full complete “control” of what happens in a dream.
- 8. Patients with sleep Apnea may need this machine to prevent harm.
- 11. Painful physical or mental effects usually kick in after a prolonged period from usage of a drug.
- 13. Periods of temporary lost awareness that typically lasts a few seconds in most cases.