Chapter 5 : Consciousness

The first part of this chapter is so interesting...the second part was not so much....I love learning about how our brains work when we sleep.  I always knew there were different cycles when you sleep, but I read that there are 5 different stages and the fifth stage - REM sleep, is where your brain is the most active and you have the vividest dreams. I also was suprised to learn that during each stage your brain's waves frequencies and altitudes differ. Like when you are awake your brain produces beta waves..but when you are in stages 3 and 4 your brain produces delta waves.
For some reason I find learning about the different disorders of sleep very interesting. Except...Insomnia I thought was when you had difficulty falling and staying asleep...and narcolepsy was when you would fall asleep unexpectedly-or when you didn't want to. When I was taking the quiz I got a question about the difference between the 2 and it said

" narcolepsy causes people to have difficulty falling asleep when they want to, while insomnia causes people to fall asleep when they do not want to." That doesn't make any sense to me?? I thought it was the complete opposite?? I am proud to say that I have experienced lucid dreaming before. I actually was screaimg for help in my dream hoping that my mom could hear me and wake me up.  I didn't know if lucid dreaming was even possible until now!