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