Infographic Template Galleries

Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 SLEEP! All about the zzzzzzzzzzzzzz's double click to change this title text! By: Za'-Deirdre A, Jamie V, Sidney H, Meredith S, Evan L & Tyler S SLEEP PATTERNS: Circadian Rhyme- is a 24-hour cycle that tells our bodies when to sleep and regulates many other physiological processes. As morning approaches, body temperature rises, then peaks during the day, dips for a time in early afternoon, and begins to drop again in the evening. Thinking is the sharpest and memory most accurate when we are at our daily peak in circadian arousal. ** In addition age and experience can alter our circadian rhythm SLEEP STAGES: Rapid Eye Movement better known as REM is a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. This stage is also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed but other body systems are active. When you first closed your eyes to go to sleep your body is using alpha waves. Alpha waves are the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed , awake state. **Sleep is defined as the periodic, natural loss of consciousness. This falling asleep is marked by the slowly breathing and the irregular brain waves of non-REM stage 1 sleep. During the brief NREM-1 sleep one may experience fantastic images resembling hallucinations. Typically people begin to feel like they are floating Your body then begin to relax more deeply and you begin 20 minutes of NREM-2 sleep You transition to deep sleep of NREM-3. During this sleep your brain emits large , slow delta waves and you are hard to awaken. **This last for about 30 minutes . ***The sleep cycle repeats itself every 90 minutes. SLEEP THEORIES: SLEEP FUNCTIONS; Sleep protects, Sleep helps us recuperate, Sleep helps restore and rebuild our fading memories of the day's experience, sleep feeds creative thinking & Sleep supports growth: SLEEP DISORDERS: Insomnia- is recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.Sleep Apnea- is when one has one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep.Narcolepsy- a condition characterized by an extreme tendency to fall asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings.Night Terrors- is a sleep disorder that is characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified. CONSCIOUSNESS & HYPNOSIS Consciousness is defined as our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Hypnosis is defined as a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction
Create Your Free Infographic!