Altered States of Consciousness

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Across
  1. 4. the belief that dreams serve a physiological function, providing the brain with periodic stimulation that may help develop and preserve neural pathways
  2. 7. the inability to recall specific information because of a hypnotic suggestion
  3. 8. type of sleep in which your heart rate rises, breathing becomes rapid and irregular, and your eyes move around behind your closed lids
  4. 9. suggestion made during hypnosis that the person should carry out a specific instruction following the hypnotic session
  5. 11. dream content reflects dreamer’s cognitive development, meaning their knowledge and understanding
  6. 14. drugs that increase brain activity, arouse behavior, and increase mental alertness
  7. 15. phenomenon in which a person is deprived of rem sleep, greatly increases the amount of time spent in rem sleep at the first opportunity to sleep uninterrupted
  8. 16. characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and brief lapses into sleep through the day; usually lapse directly into Rem sleep, 1 in 2,000 people
Down
  1. 1. the underlying true meaning of the dream
  2. 2. dreams are the mind’s effort to make sense of the unrelated visual bursts
  3. 3. a condition in which a person has physically adapted to a drug so that he or she must take the drug regularly in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms
  4. 5. the remembered storyline of the dream
  5. 6. drug that depresses and inhibits brain activity
  6. 10. when breathing stops throughout the night; typically middle age overweight male; CPAP Machine- blows a continuous stream of air to the nose and mouth
  7. 12. a recurring problem falling asleep/staying asleep; treated with medication; many people say they build a tolerance and meds are not as effective
  8. 13. a condition in which increasing amounts of a physically addictive drug are needed to produce the original desired effect