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our awareness of ourselves and environment - Conciousness our biological clock that synchronizes our bodies (for ex: body temperature and wakefulness) with the 24 hour cycle of day and night-regulates our daily schedule of sleeping and walking - Circadian Rythm ... - The Pineal Gland's role in ...

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our awareness of ourselves and environment - ✔✔Conciousness


our biological clock that synchronizes our bodies (for ex: body temperature
and wakefulness) with the 24 hour cycle of day and night-regulates our daily
schedule of sleeping and walking - ✔✔Circadian Rythm


... - ✔✔The Pineal Gland's role in sleep


the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake stage - ✔✔Alpha Waves


the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep - ✔✔Delta Waves


about 10 minutes-our dive into sleep, marked by the slow breathing and
irregular brain waves/During this brief stage of sleep (about 5-10 minutes)
you may experience images resembling hallucinations (sensory experiences
that occur with all sensory stimuli) and you may have a sensation of falling
(at which moment your body will suddenly jerk or floating weightlessly -
✔✔Sleep Stage 1


About 20 minutes-you relax more deeply-it is characterized by the periodic
appearance of SLEEP SPINDLES (bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain
activity)-you can still be awakened easily, you are now clearly asleep-sleep
talking (usually garbled or nonsensical) can occur during this stage or any
other sleep stage - ✔✔Sleep Stage 2

, Transitional stage from 2 to 4 when your brain first starts to emit large
slow DELTA WAVES which are associated with deep sleep - ✔✔Sleep Stage
3


Deepest stage of sleep in which your brain emits an increasing amount of
delta waves (Brain waves at their slowest). at the end of stage 4 children
may wet the best or sleepwalk. Stage 3 and 4 together last about 30 minutes
during which you are hard to awaken - ✔✔Sleep Stage 4


stage 4 shorter-rem longer - ✔✔What happens between stage 4 and rem as
night goes on


Goes to 3 to 2 to rem - ✔✔After Stage 4


the body is internally aroused and externally calm-another name for REM
(rapid eye movement) - ✔✔Paradoxical Sleep


Repeats itself about every 90 minutes and as night goes, deep stage 4 gets
shorter and then disappears and REM sleep gets longer (you last dream could
be as long as 60 minutes. whereas your first dream is 10). 20-25% of our
average night's sleep is about 100 minutes, has been REM sleep (we dream
about 4-5 times a night)-600 hours a year dreaming and have more than
100,000 dreams in a typical life time - ✔✔The Sleep Cycles


insufficient amount of sleep-causes fatigues. Teens typically need 9 and 1/4
hours of sleep a night but average less than 7 (about 6 and 1/2) - ✔✔Sleep
Deprivation


function below peak level academically-more accident prone-slower reaction
time and increased errors on visual tasks-surpasses immune cells that usually
fight off virus and cancer-alters metabolic and hormonal functioning in ways

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