State of consciousness

1
State of consciousness

• liudexiang

2
contents

• Conscious experience
• Sleep
• Dreams
• Meditation and hypnosis

3
Conscious experience

• Consciousness Our awareness of various
  cognitive processes, such as sleeping, dreaming,
  concentrating, and making decisions.
• Waking consciousness mental state that
  encompasses the thoughts, feelings, and
  perceptions that occur when we are awake and
  reasonably alert.

4
Daydreaming

• Daydreams apparently effortless shifts in
  attention away from the here and now into a
  private world of make believe.

5
Sleep
6
Dreams

• Dreamsvivid visual and auditory experiences that
  occur primarily during REM periods of sleep.

7
Why do we dream?

• Dreams as unconscious wishes
• Dreams and information processing
• Dream and waking life
• Dreams and neural activity

8
Meditation and hypnosis

• Meditation any of the various methods of
  concentration, reflection, or focusing of
  thoughts undertaken to suppress the activity of
  the sympathetic nervous system.

9
Meditation and hypnosis

• Hypnosis trancelike state in which a person
  responds readily to suggestions.

10
Coping with occasional insomnia

• Maintain regular bedtime hours dont sleep late
  on weekends.
• Establish a regular bedtime routine that you
  follow each night before retiring, such as a warm
  bath, followed by a little reading or writing a
  letter.

11
Coping with occasional insomnia

• Abstain from drugs.
• Adjust the temperature of the room if it is too
  cold or too warm.
• Avoid foods that may cause sleeplessness.
• Establish a regular exercise program during the
  day.

12
Coping with occasional insomnia

• Avoid anxious thoughts while in bed.
• Dont fight insomnia when it occurs. The old
  saying if I cant sleep, I mop the kitchen
  floor will make sense.

13
The end