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So imagine if you were you're lying at bed at home alone, you're relaxed in a parasympathetic state,

which means you're breathing slowly,

you're not particularly alert,

you've put away the book you were reading, and just as you're starting to doze off,

you hear a sudden sound in the house or apartment that you live and you don't expect of course anyone to be there in this exercise.

And so within one tenth of the second, our body goes from parasympathetic, relaxed, moving into the diminished status state of awareness and to sleep state we move within one-tenth of a second to a

Mobilization sympathetic state

and in that one-tenth of a second, a lot of things,

a lot of precconscious events occur,

excitary signals from... pre-conscious events occur.

Excitary signals from the thalamus after hearing the sound project to the

basal amygdala, and Migula parse the suddenness and activate the sympathetic arousal muscles tense, heightened alertness,

suddenly a jolt of adrenaline wakes us up into the startle state.

Our breath is held.

The vagal tone decreases down the vagal pathways.

So the heart starts to raise, muscles tense

and with action potential,

readying to fight or flee.

And then we move from this initial mobilization state

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