PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF DEPRIVATION OF DREAMING SLEEP

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AMIRUL HAZIQ BIN AHMAD BALQIS BINTI HAMDAN MUHAMMAD HARIS BIN ABDUL RAHIM SHAMSIYAH BINTI AZLAN

BACKGROUND

A study to observe the relationship between deprivation of dreaming sleep and psychological effect

Six male college students were voluntarily to be the subject of the study.

ISSUES
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The deprivation in sleep process caused the subject to develop formed delusion. Deprivation nights caused a progressive increase in dream attempts, and an increased dream time during recovery. Psychological testing showed only minimal psychic changes even though the length of the experiment is greater or longer.

METHODS/ PROCEDURE

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Four Stages: Habituation Baseline Partial Sleep Deprivation and Recovery Dream Interruption and Recovery Collection of Data

FINDINGS

ORAL PHENOMENA IRRITABILITY

SENSE OF REALITY
SPECIAL EXCITATION OR EUPHORIA

RECOMMENDATION

Not to reduce his need for REM sleep.

Human subjects is an inevitable confounding of dream deprivation with deprivation of the entire REM state, but demonstration of compensatory rapid sleep time following deprivation in decorticate cats were probably not confounded.

CONCLUSION

Dream serve as a safety control device, by depriving the ability for dreaming would make person become mentally disturb because great mass of un-worked out thoughts and external impressions mount up in the brain. Some subject even developed intense hunger and special food cravings, with increase appetite during the session. However theres no increase in oral imagery. However, subject reaction to experimental deprivation, with instances of childish behaviour, emergence of prominent masochistic and paranoid theme and self injury. Dreaming taken on the task of bringing back under control of the preconscious that excitation in the Ucs. (unconscious). Excitation serves it as a safety valve and at the same time preserves the sleep of the preconscious in return for a small expenditure of waking activity.

REM deprivation produces a damming-up of instinctual tension ordinarily discharge in dreaming. Preventation of the discharge in nocturnal dreaming makes subject manifest various kind of disturbed behaviour described.

CONCLUSION

Dream deprivation also would result in eventual outbreak of the dream cycle into the walking state with the development of hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. The observed charges could be reactions to the realistic stresses, transference potentialities and demand characteristic of the experimental situation rather than to either REM or dream deprivation. Regressive shift in ego controls as deprivation increases such that secondary revision operates less effectively on the dream text, permitting the final product to be more distorted. However, as dream duration became longer, it was more difficult to detect the untransformed day residue.

LIMITATION

LIMITED PSYCHOLOGY TESTING.