NN+Nightmare+Article+HW

1. What does it mean to be "gainfully" employed (line 3)? 2. Look up the word "Damoclesian". What does it mean that the knife dangled with "Damoclesian contempt"? 3. What did the patient fear at night (2 things)? 4. How did Dr. Leving help this man? 5. When is the last time you had a nightmare you remember? Do you mind sharing it? If not, please do so here... 6. What does she mean when she calls nightmares a "sensorily rich nocturnal roundhouse staffed with characters so persuasive you want to ... strangle them, before they can strangle you."? (paragraph 4) 7. What percentage of dreams are bad dreams? 8. What is REM sleep? (You may need to look this up.) What does it stand for? What happens during REM sleep? How much REM sleep do we get in a typical night's sleep? 9. How much time do we spend dreaming each night? 10. How does the frequency of nightmares change as we age? (Be specific with ages and number of nightmares) 11. Which parts of the brain are active during dreaming (Be specific, name the parts and their function)? 12. What is the possible function of bad dreams? And why are nightmares disfunctional?
 * Well employed
 * It means that the knife was hanging precariously ready to fall.
 * Intruders
 * His mother
 * He had the man rehearse coming up with alternates for the swinging blade and his frozen fear
 * I don't remember the last time I had a nightmare, I remember past ones and I remember recent bad dreams, but I don't remember when my last nightmare was.
 * She means that our minds are able to make the dreams so life-like that we end up believing them and getting caught up in them.
 * 75% of dreams are bad dreams
 * REM sleep stands for rapid eye movement sleep where the eyes are moving even though the eye lids are closed.
 * Roughly three hours are spent dreaming a night.
 * They become less frequent.
 * The limbic system, which contains the amygdala and the cingulate. This part of the brain is referred to as the "axis of fear."
 * The brainstem paralyzes the body so that people do not act out their dreams. When the brainstem becomes damaged the person can end up sleep walking.
 * When we dream we process what we are afraid of and use the dreams to become less afraid of the fears. Nightmares are difunctional because when we wake up from our fears, we are not processing them and not becoming less afraid of them.