AngelicLights
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A Glossary of Dream and Sleep-Related Terms
Apnea - a disorder that affects breathing during sleep. Apnea can be life-threatening by cutting off your breath and putting strain on the heart.
Bes - the ancient Egyptian god of dreams
Bruxism - the grinding of the teeth during sleep.
Circadian Rhythm - the synchronized action of the body's impulse to stay awake and fall asleep.
Conscious - the waking mind policed by ethics, morality, rights and wrong. It self-imposes rules, restrictions, and regulates action and behavior
Defense Mechanism - a psychological term used to describe ways in which we protect ourselves from fear and anxiety.
Deja Vu - the peculiar feeling that a place, situation, person, action, or conversation is familiar and has already been experienced.
Enuresis - bedwetting. It is unrelated to dreaming.
Hypnogogic State - the neurological mechanism in our brain that temporarily disables voluntary muscle movement when we are dreaming. It is also commonly referred to as "REM Paralysis".
Latent Content - the underlying meaning behind the symbols in a dream.
Lucid Dreaming - the ability to consciously alter the content and control the actions in your dreams.
Manifest Content - the literal story and symbols of a dream
Morpheus - known in Greek mythology as the god of dreams.
Myclonic Jerk - sudden muscle spasms in extremities.
Narcolepsy - a sleep disorder characterized by being able to fall asleep without warning and immediately going into REM.
Night Terrors - severe sleep disturbances occurring in non-REM sleep that produce feelings of deep fear, panic and anxiety. Night terrors are not categorized as dreams.
Nocturnal Emissions - also known as wet dreams and occurs in males at around puberty. It is often, but not necessarily accompanied by a sexually explicit dream.
Oneirocritica - derived from Greek terminology to mean "dream interpretation".
Prodromal Dream - a dream that signals that an impending disease may afflict your body.
REM - standing for Rapid Eye Movement, it describes the stage of sleep where our eyes move rapidly back and forth. This is where the majority of dreaming occurs.
Somnambulism - sleep walking
Somniloquy - more commonly known as sleep talking
Unconscious - thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, and feelings which we are not aware of but influence our emotions and behavior in some subtle way.
~~*In understanding our dreams, we can better understand and discover our true self.*~~ |
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