The document discusses different states of consciousness including sleep stages, dreams, sleep disorders, hypnosis, meditation, and the effects of various psychoactive drugs. It describes consciousness as the awareness of one's sensations, thoughts and feelings. It also covers sleep cycles, theories about dreams, and classifications of psychoactive drugs that can alter consciousness.
3. Robert Feldman Understanding Psychology 10th Edition, McGraw Hill Company
Consciousness
The awareness of the sensations, thoughts,
and feelings at a given moment.
Consciousness is
the subjective understanding of the environment as well as the
internal world, unobservable to outsiders