1. State of consciousness
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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
Dreams:vivid 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; don’t 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.
Don’t fight insomnia when it occurs. The old saying “ if I can’t sleep, I mop the kitchen floor” will make sense.

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