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Night terrors and nightmares happen at different stages of sleep. Night terror, also called sleep terror, is a sleep disorder causing feelings of panic or dread and typically occurring during the first hours of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and lasting for 1 to 10 minutes. While nightmares and bad dreams are happening during REM… Continue reading episode #126 nightmares & terrors
Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a phenomenon of combined sleep and wakefulness.It is classified as a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. It occurs during slow wave stage of sleep, in a state of low consciousness, with performance of activities that are usually performed during a state of full consciousness. These… Continue reading episode #125 sleepwalking
A lucid dream is a type of dream in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming while dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment; however, this is not actually necessary for a dream to be described as lucid. (Wikipedia) In… Continue reading episode #124 lucid dreams
Daydreaming definition according to Cambridge Dictionary: the activity of thinking about pleasant things that you would like to do or have happen to you, instead of thinking about what is happening now. A daydreaming is when a person’s attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction. Daydreaming was long held in disrepute in society… Continue reading episode #123 daydreaming
Consciousness Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and [also the] most mysterious aspect of our lives," said Susan Schneider. Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that consciousness exists. [John Searle] Opinions differ… Continue reading episode #109 creatures of consciousness
Questions about the nature of cognition and the relationship between the knowing mind and external reality have been debated by philosophers since antiquity starting with Plato and Aristotle. Plato's approach to the study of the mind suggested that people understand the world by first identifying basic principles buried deep inside themselves, then using rational thought… Continue reading episode #108 creatures of cognition
“Emotion” is a term that came into use in the English language in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. French émotion, from Old French, from esmovoir, to excite, from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin movēre, to move). "No one felt emotions before about 1830. Instead they felt other things – 'passions', 'accidents… Continue reading episode #107 creatures of emotions
Intuition is defined as the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as "consider" or from the late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate”. In the past decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have made enormous strides in… Continue reading episode #106 creatures of intuition
Instinct is an innate impulse or motivation, typically fixed pattern of behaviour in animals in response to certain external stimuli. Today instinct is generally described as a stereotyped, apparently unlearned, genetically determined behaviour pattern. Instinct is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behaviour, containing both innate (inborn) and learned elements.… Continue reading episode #105 creatures of instinct
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