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| compulsive drug craving and use. | ||
| brain wave of awake relaxed person | ||
| drugs that increase energy and stimulate neural activity | ||
| drugs that reduce anxiety and depress central nervous system activity | ||
| Our awareness Of ourselves and our environment | ||
| the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep. | ||
| drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions. | ||
| a split between different levels of consciousness | ||
| a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it. | ||
| a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition. | ||
| natural painkiller produced by the brain | ||
| theory that dreaming reflects our erotic drives | ||
| false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus. | ||
| psychedelic ("mind-manifesting") drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input. | ||
| a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur. | ||
| recurring problems in falling or staying asleep. | ||
| deeper meaning of dreams | ||
| a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid (lysergic acid diethylamide). | ||
| surface meaning of dreams | ||
| early name for hypnosis | ||
| a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels. | ||
| the presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing. | ||
| disorder in which sleep attacks occur | ||
| 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. | ||
| opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. | ||
| a physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued. | ||
| a 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. | ||
| a chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood. | ||
| a psychological need to use a drug such as to relieve negative emotions. | ||
| sleep stage associated with dreaming | ||
| the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep). | ||
| stage of sleep associated with muscular relaxation | ||
| neurotransmitter that LSD resembles | ||
| periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness—as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation. (Adapted from Dement, 1999.) | ||
| sleep disorder in which breathing stops | ||
| brain-wave activity during Stage 2 sleep | ||
| stage of sleep associated with delta waves | ||
| drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, and Ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions. | ||
| the major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations. | ||
| the diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's effect. | ||
| the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug. |
