Consciousness, sleep and dreams

Waking awareness, the parts of mental life outside it, and sleep and dreaming.

6 terms

Levels of awareness

Psychoanalysis’s classic account of how the mind is organized.

Levels of consciousness 意识层次理论: Freud’s early model sorting the mind into conscious, preconscious and unconscious systems.
Id, ego and superego 本我、自我与超我: Freud’s 1923 structural model dividing the mind into id, ego and superego.

How a night’s sleep is structured, and what can go wrong during it.

Sleep stages 睡眠阶段: Sleep cycles through three non-REM stages and REM sleep several times a night.
Sleepwalking 睡行症: Getting up and moving around while partly aroused from deep non-REM sleep; most common in children.

When attention drifts away from the task at hand.

Mind-wandering 心智游移: When attention drifts from the task at hand to self-generated thoughts.
Maladaptive daydreaming 适应不良性白日梦: Excessive, absorbing fantasy that causes distress or disrupts daily life; not yet an official diagnosis.