States of Consciousness

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Across
  1. 2. waves the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
  2. 3. non-rapid eye movement sleep; encompasses all sleep stages except for REM sleep.
  3. 6. the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle.
  4. 8. false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
  5. 10. suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors.
  6. 11. periodic, natural loss of consciousness—as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.
  7. 12. a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during Stage 4 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered.
  8. 13. the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep).
  9. 15. according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content).
  10. 17. a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.
Down
  1. 1. sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.
  2. 2. a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.
  3. 4. according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent, or hidden, content).
  4. 5. a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.
  5. 7. our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
  6. 9. rapid eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.
  7. 14. recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
  8. 16. the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.