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

History of Sleep Psychology

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