Hypnogogic Hallucinations

There are four stages of sleep. In the first stage (10 min. into sleep), your pulse slows down and your muscles begin to relax. Your breathing

Then you will move into stage two which includes sleep spindles and K complexes. Sleep spindles are very short bursts of brain activity, and K complexes are single high voltage strikes of brain activity. Also, in stage two delta brain waves start to slow function of the brain preparing for stage three and four. Stage three and stage four i will talk about as one because they are very similar and do similar things. These stages are referred to slow wave sleep because your brain is in it’s slowest speed of function. In stage three you brain is between 20 and 50 percent delta waves, from 50 to 100 percent delta waves you are considered to be in stage four. While in stage four people may experience sleep walking and other muscular movement without knowing so. Noises as loud as 90 decibels may not be able to wake the person from sleep. During REM sleep which is after NREM sleep the brain is more active and alert. This is where most dreams occur because your brain is active but you are still sleeping. After the short 15 minute period of REM sleep you will start over with stage one of NREM these cycles normally take 90 minutes to complete. Activity during sleep can come at any point but is most common in REM or stage four of

Pt presented at NNBHC with his mother with psychosis, and ritualistic behaviors that have increased. Pt states that he has been having audio and visual hallucinations at night where he hears whispers. Pt states of also seeing “clowns, demons, spirits and bigfoot”. Pt states when he has AV hallucinations that he counts to 2 or 4 and becomes fidgety which helps decrease the hallucinations. Pt also states that everything have to be on the left side due to him being left handed and nothing can be on the right side which makes him upset. Pt states that he has been having spells of confusion where he seems to lose time, or is often confused when communicating. Pt states that he has became recently aggressive towards mother throwing times due

Patients with Schizophrenia can have symptoms that vary from hallucinations, to bad hygiene. They can experience delusions and disorganized thoughts. They are normally depressed and can cause self-harm. The treatments for Schizophrenia includes medications, Electroconvulsive Therapy and therapy. Therapy for these patients can be individual or group. The therapy sessions can help teach these patients how to be social and it can show them how to deal with the voices or hallucinations. Medications for schizophrenia are called antipsychotics. The medications help curb the symptoms of schizophrenia. The down fall to the medications is most people stop taking them. It is not uncommon for the “voices” to talk the patient out of taking them. Electroconvulsive

The recurring idea of how science, technology, and total state control can be dangerous for the citizens of the utopian society is constantly brought up throughout the novel. The state in Brave New World created a scientific and technological method, the bokanovsky, in which they can have ninety-six or more identical twins. The state decides in which social class the embryos they have created go into by making them hear recordings while they are sleeping. Moreover, the state provides the citizens with soma so they can erase their unpleasant memories by creating hallucinations in which the person is happy and satisfied. The soma helps maintain stability and control for the state. The citizens are always happy and never complain; therefore,

Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder, which can affect a person's life on a daily basis because it impairs their cognitive functions. The onset of schizophrenia starts between the ages of "10 and 25 years for men and between 25 and 35 for women" (Rajji et al, 2009, p.286). The symptoms associated with the disorder are confused thinking, delusions, language, and hallucinations. These main symptoms branch off into other areas. For example, hallucinations can branch off into, smells, tastes, what they see, how they feel and auditory. This essay will look at the effects of auditory hallucinations, with the focus on command hallucination (CH). How the command hallucinations can lead the subject to commit violent crimes or even lead

Hallucinations were a large portion of what Lori had experienced with her symptoms of schizophrenia. Auditory hallucinations made up majority of things experienced, she was always hearing voices in her head which is where most of her problems stemmed from, they started out subtle and then progressed into the voices always being there. The voices varied on the type of things they would be telling Lori. At times, they would be persecutory voices, calling her horrible names, degrading her. Other times there would be more than one voice at a time and they would converse with each other saying things like Lori must go to hell and that she needs to be punished, they would also converse by saying she needed to die. The biggest part of the voices

Hallucinations can be auditory. The types of auditory hallucinations that people experience vary. Some people can hear mean voices one telling them to do something wrong and the other telling them not too. Auditory hallucination can be like a radio talk show so you are hearing the voice, but not an actual participant in what you are hearing. Another auditory hallucination that is very common is hearing music and it can be any kind of music. People that experience these types of hallucinations are normal people like you and me. There are many theories as to why people experience auditory hallucinations such as a greater activation in the primary auditory cortex, or some think it because we can’t recognize the auditory hallucination as our own.

The patient is a 32 year old male who presented to the ED with suicidal and homicidal thoughts. The patient reports auditory hallucinations with commands. Patient denies visual hallucination. The patient reports depressive symptoms as: fatigue, isolation, tearfulness, insomnia, worthlessness, hopelessness, anhedonia, sadness, and irritable.

Many narcoleptics also experience hypnagogic hallucinations. These hallucinations are really dreams that intrude the awakened state. In normal sleep, dreaming generally occurs approximately ninety minutes after falling asleep; narcoleptics begin their sleeping episodes with vivid dreams. To the individual, these hallucinations feel extremely realistic and even violent. Since hallucinations are in fact visual and may have an audio element, they may see another person or human like figure in the same room as them or may even hear someone calling out to them. These life-like sights, sounds, and feelings that are a part of hypnagogic hallucinations are thought to occur while the person is awake, both during the day and just at the edges of nighttime

A hallucination is the perception of something, without the presence of an external stimulus, that does not physically exist. Mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and dementia, alongside the abuse of illegal substances or alcohol are among some of the main causes of hallucinations. Not to be confused with illusions or delusions, hallucinations fixate on the sensation conjured by a network of lobes in the brain when there is no actual tangible object stimulating the senses, while illusions are a false interpretation of reality and delusions are strong set beliefs that an individual has despite contradicting evidence. Due to the fact that hallucinations are most commonly associated with mental illnesses, they are often perceived as a sign

NREM-1, non-Rapid Eye Movement stage one waves. It’s in this first stage of sleep your brain starts producing theta waves and you might experience hypnagogic sensations-those brief moments when you feel like hearing or seeing things that aren’t there, or like your body is falling, etc.

 There are five stages of sleep, REM and NREM stages 1, 2, 3, & 4.

A typical night’s sleep is much more complicated than just closing your eyes and waking in the morning. As humans, we live our life on a circadian rhythm. This means that changes occur roughly based upon a 24-hour basis. This circadian rhythm plays a major role in when we get tired and decide it’s time to sleep. This rhythm is theorized to have helped us stay safe thousands of years ago. We would fall asleep during the time that their seemed to be threats roaming around in the dark. to Once we finally get to sleep, our brains and bodies are doing much more than laying in complete stillness. There are five distinct stages of sleep that we experience as we sleep. Each is uniquely different and serves a purpose throughout the night. The first stage of sleep is a very light sleep that lasts for 5 to 10 minutes. During this stage of sleep, you may not even realize that you’re sleeping. While in this stage of sleep our brains power down by 50 percent and produce theta waves four to seven times per second. We proceed to stage two after this. During stage two, our brains power down

Hallucinations are one of the most intriguing secrets of the mind, which are characterized by false visions, sounds, taste, smell, and touch that can occur when one is awake; it has a sufficient sense of reality, but one has no control over it. Hallucinations are the form of perception. There is no particular part of the brain that is involved in hallucinating. For example, people “seeing” faces could have a hyperactivity in fusiform face area involved in facial recognition. People with hyperactivity in the auditory cortex might experience auditory hallucinations: hearing music, or voices, that are not there. Hallucinations can be frightening, strange, or even amusing and divine. There are numerous causes of hallucinations: they are usually experienced by people with schizophrenia, Charles Bonnet syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, or other psychological and mental disorders. However, hallucinations can also be experienced by healthy individuals, who are the subjects for studying the nature and causes of hallucinations, as they do not interact with other symptoms like in patients with schizophrenia. Researchers use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to track the brain activities during hallucinations. The aim of this research paper is to describe several types of hallucinations, ways of studying hallucinations, and possible treatments.