goes on when we sleep? At first glance sleep is just simply sleep but so much more is going on. When we(humans) go to sleep we cycle through four different stages of sleep. Each of the four cycles are significant. When we initially fall asleep the first cycle is called the NREM1 stage. The next stage is the NREM2 stage and consist of periodic sleep spindles (Excelsior‚ 4TH 16‚ p. 1.18). The third stage is the NREM3 sleep and this simply means you are in the threshold of that deep sleep. The NREM1 and
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that affects millions of people worldwide every year. It is characterized by having disturbed nocturnal sleep; which many confuse with insomnia. Someone that is a narcoleptic might experience sleep at random time throughout the day. Narcolepsy affects about 500‚000 people in the United States and over 3 million internationally. As stated early‚ narcolepsy is characterized a vast yearning to sleep throughout the day. The naps can occur during normal activities such as working‚ operating machinery
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Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams Michael Alexander Philosophy 1301 T – TH 11:30 – 12:50 Alexander 1 Aristotle’s philosophy covered a broad range of topics including the existence of God‚ politics‚ and ethics. These subjects in particular‚ sleep and dreams‚ were less glorified than others yet critical topics Aristotle proceeded to explain. Aristotle discusses dreams and sleeping in three treatises: On Sleep and Dreams‚ On Sleeping and Waking‚ and On Divination through Sleep. His concepts of mind
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The Big Sleep‚ by Raymond Chandler‚ was written in 1939. It is a story about a private detective in Los Angeles who takes a case about blackmail‚ but the case would soon develop into a big ordeal with murder‚ corruption‚ and kidnapping. The first two paragraphs of the story provide a great introduction to Marlowe‚ the private investigator‚ and great information about him. The first two paragraphs also give a lot of information the reader can use to better understand the plot later in the story. The
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we leave at 3:20. Getting up so early makes it hard on the students‚ and it causes many issues that can be fixed if we just change the times school starts and ends. Sleep deprivation in school age children has many negative side effects‚ which include being over emotional or cranky‚ having difficulty focusing‚ and becoming more injury prone. Roughly 25 to 30 percent of children in the middle school ages aren’t getting enough sleep because of the early time school starts. Sleep deprivation can also
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I don’t often date but when I do it is rare that I allow someone into my existence long enough for me to begin liking them. If and when we do get to that point‚ I am still gripped by the fear of expressing my feelings only to subsequently loose that person. It’s a silly game many of us have created in our minds. I prefer to call it “Getting Got”. See “Getting Got” is the moment when you feel comfortable enough to share your “like” for someone that has been chasing‚ wining and dining you. They get
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Title: The Sleep Well Motel Executive Summary The Sleep Well Motel is an 80 room motel located at Fort Morgan Colorado. It is situated at US Highway 76 which carried traffic between Denver and Nebraska. The motel is operating for eighteen years and describe as clean and comfortable but in need of cosmetics and new carpeting. Sleep Well Motel was once affiliated with motel chain several years ago but was no longer associated with them. Sleep Well Motel operates with a one night clerk‚ maid
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Sleep Apnea is a common disorder in which you have shallow breaths or one or more pauses while breathing during sleep. The breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to a few minutes. Typically they may occur 30 times or more per hour. Short after‚ normal breathing then starts again. Sometimes with a choking sound‚ or loud snort. sleep apnea is usually a chronic ongoing condition that interrupts your sleep. When breathing pauses or becomes short‚ you often shift from deep sleep into light sleep
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Stage 1 Sleep NREM stage 1 sleep serves a transitional role in sleep-stage cycling. Aside from newborns and those with narcolepsy and other specific neurological disorders‚ the average individual’s sleep episode begins in NREM stage 1.Stage 2 sleep lasts approximately 10 to 25 minutes in the initial cycle and lengthens with each successive cycle‚ eventually constituting between 45 to 55 percent of the total sleep episode. An individual in stage 2 sleep requires more intense stimuli than in stage
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REM sleep is the process of phases in which there is low physical movement‚ and the propensity of the sleeper to dream vividly. The phase is also known as paradoxical sleep and sometimes desynchronized sleep because of the physiological similarities to being awake‚ including rapid‚ low-voltage desynchronized brain waves. The right and left hemispheres of the brain are more coherent in REM sleep‚ especially during lucid dreams. Two other neurotransmitters seem to promote wakefulness‚ diminish during
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