As I have mentioned before, I have been working on a little psychology section for my blog...and well, here's the first post!
I decided to go easy on this one; sleep is all a part of psychology 101. Am I right? I am no psychologist, and I am certainly no doctor. But this blog segment is called AdorkableTHOUGHTS, and not AdorkableFACTS for just that reason.
So! Here's the run down. I saw this picture on the internet:
Some of these little "Did you know" psychology posts are essentially wrong. But, whether the source of this picture is reliable or not, this content does hold a bit of truth; and here's why!
As we have all learned in our general psychology class, that we are mostly required to take, our brain has these things called pons. The signals of REM sleep starts from here, and ends up in the region of the brain called the thalamus. But why am I telling you that? You obviously learned this in a general psych course.
Point of Relevancy So Far: The thalamus has a few jobs (like sleep). But it's primary function is mainly sensory and movements.
OH! And the whole"acting out your dreams" disorder is actually called RBD (REM Behavioral Disorder) Sorry, I forgot to mention that in the beginning..
So here, our little pons are shouting out these sleep signals throughout different regions of our brain, and not just the thalamus. Here's the cool part: the pons then shout out this signal to our neurons that are associated with our spinal cord. Thus, causing a temporary paralysis.
Anything that is involved with interrupting this process is generally the outcome of someone with RBD.
And RBD is not the only sleeping disorder; we all know about the popular ones like insomnia or narcolepsy.
Well, that's it for this post! Whether it was "omg Reyna DUH. I learned this in class the other day" or "Oh cool..."
This is it.I will be doing more posts like these sometime in the future as well! But maybe not so basic. I wanted to take it easy on my first go ^_^
Until next time,
Reyna Michelle
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