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Sleep Psychology is a transdisciplinary field of psychology that focuses on advancement of sleep science through psychological methods and perspectives.

Historical Literature

 * Epic of Gilgamesh
 * Babylonian text, transcribed from tablets
 * Sleep Valuation: how people value sleep
 * Wishes he slept more once he found he was mortal
 * Concur sleep? -> we can concur mortality
 * Didn’t do it
 * Sleep discrepancy: people are unaware that they slept, can’t trust self-reporting

Ancient Greece

 * Plato: student of socrates, rationalist
 * Protagerous (dialogue)
 * “Are you awake or are you asleep?”
 * Sleep: approaches death, ultimately the goal
 * Sleep was an access to the platonic realm (true knowledge)
 * Good sleep was reserved for the righteous
 * Aristotle
 * Happiness, imperists, the best state is the mean state
 * Sleep was an oppressive state, sleep was a consequence of being too busy in the day
 * You cannot be happy in sleep
 * What are the mechanisms/emotions/ functions/harmfulness of sleep

Enlightenment Philosophy

 * Modern Sleep Psychology
 * Where does sleep fit in the philosophy of mind?
 * Descartes
 * Cartesian dualism
 * “I think therefore, I am”
 * Consciousness retreats towards the mind realm during sleep
 * John Locke
 * Consciousness leaves when you go to sleep
 * Common sense
 * No dreams? -> no consciousness
 * Liebnitz
 * Unconscious processes occur
 * Phrenologist: riding bike in a dream, more active in that part of the brain (AKA bogus)
 * Brain circuitry during sleep?
 * Sense perception doesn’t change during different levels of sleep

Modern Sleep Psychology

 * How to test claims
 * fMRI and PSG


 * Vundt
 * Sleep psychology didn’t come up because of lack of evidence
 * Sleep is a psychological problem
 * Current Sleep Psychologists
 * Phd vs Md
 * Get the short end of the stick
 * Progressive relaxation was taken by mds and CBT for sleep
 * Imperialism is the main enemy
 * 3 Major Factors of the definition of sleep
 * REM-Sleep
 * Consciousness
 * Arousal
 * Non-REM
 * Sleep:
 * sleep drives are different
 * 1990s -> aroused = awake, not aroused = not awake = not true!
 * Consciousness:
 * consciousness awareness + conscious while you’re sleeping
 * information processing
 * What is sleep psychology?
 * Sleep psychology = Psychological science + sleep science
 * Transdisciplinary
 * Advances sleep science through psychological methods and perspectives
 * Use sleep science methods to answer psychological questions
 * Consciousness