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addiction: compulsive drug craving and use. alpha waves: brain wave of awake relaxed person amphetamines: drugs that increase energy and stimulate neural activity barbiturates: drugs that reduce anxiety and depress central nervous system activity consciousness: Our awareness Of ourselves and our environment delta waves: the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep. depressants: drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions. 8. dissociation: a split between different levels of consciousness 9. dream: 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. 10. Ecstasy: 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. 11. endorphin: natural painkiller produced by the brain 12. Freud's theory: theory that dreaming reflects our erotic drives 13. hallucinations: false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus. 14. hallucinogens: psychedelic ("mind-manifesting") drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input. 15. hypnosis: a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur. 16. insomnia: recurring problems in falling or staying asleep. 17. latent content: deeper meaning of dreams 18. LSD: a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid (lysergic acid diethylamide). 19. manifest content: surface meaning of dreams 20. mesmerism: early name for hypnosis 21. methamphetamine: 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. 22. monism: the presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing. 23. narcolepsy: disorder in which sleep attacks occur 24. night terrors: 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. 25. opiates: opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. 26. physical dependence: a physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued.

27. posthypnotic suggestion: 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. 28. psychoactive drug: a chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood. 29. psychological dependence: a psychological need to use a drug such as to relieve negative emotions. 30. REM rebound: the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep). 31. REM sleep: stage of sleep associated with muscular relaxation 32. REM: sleep stage associated with dreaming 33. serotonin: neurotransmitter that LSD resembles 34. sleep apnea: sleep disorder in which breathing stops 35. sleep spindle: brain-wave activity during Stage 2 sleep 36. sleep: periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousnessas distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation. (Adapted from Dement, 1999.) 37. Stages 3 and 4 sleep: stage of sleep associated with delta waves