Though there are many things that I have learned after reading through 11 chapters of the textbook, the module that stands out to me the most is the 7th. Module 7 is about sleep and dreams and it’s actually quite fascinating to read about. It pretty much explained everything from the basic biology of sleeping all the way through how dreams have to do with personal life.
There is a difference between sleeping and dreaming and you don’t need one to have the other. Dreaming while not sleeping is possible with by daydreaming. It is basically what happens when a person has low awareness of anything around them and begins to fantasize. Sleeping doesn’t guarantee that dreams will occur either. There is five different stages of sleep and they all vary in levels of awareness. Only around 20% of our time sleeping is actually spent dreaming.
This is actually very useful information to know because it can help a person know when they should fall asleep to wake up at a specific time. Waking up in the middle of sleep cycles can leave you …show more content…
This basically refers to a biological clock that regulates responses from the body within a 24 hour period. The reason I find knowing about this very important is because it regulates responses for things like hunger and cravings. Midnight snack is a good example of this. Research has shown that obese people could possibly have an abnormality in their clock. Another thing that is associated with this is jet lag, which happens when a person’s biological clock is not aligned with the actual time of the place they are in at the moment. If more people knew about their biological clocks, it would be easier for them to find out how long it will take to recover from it. When I travel to the west coast it’s usually very exhausting, studying up on it showed me that you have to factor in an hour for each time zone passed which basically means it takes 3 days to recover from
There is a difference between sleeping and dreaming and you don’t need one to have the other. Dreaming while not sleeping is possible with by daydreaming. It is basically what happens when a person has low awareness of anything around them and begins to fantasize. Sleeping doesn’t guarantee that dreams will occur either. There is five different stages of sleep and they all vary in levels of awareness. Only around 20% of our time sleeping is actually spent dreaming.
This is actually very useful information to know because it can help a person know when they should fall asleep to wake up at a specific time. Waking up in the middle of sleep cycles can leave you …show more content…
This basically refers to a biological clock that regulates responses from the body within a 24 hour period. The reason I find knowing about this very important is because it regulates responses for things like hunger and cravings. Midnight snack is a good example of this. Research has shown that obese people could possibly have an abnormality in their clock. Another thing that is associated with this is jet lag, which happens when a person’s biological clock is not aligned with the actual time of the place they are in at the moment. If more people knew about their biological clocks, it would be easier for them to find out how long it will take to recover from it. When I travel to the west coast it’s usually very exhausting, studying up on it showed me that you have to factor in an hour for each time zone passed which basically means it takes 3 days to recover from