People can be awake, asleep, stuporous, or comatose, or have other whole-brain physiological states {mental state}| {state of mind}. Mental state is mainly about consciousness level. Mental state depends on arousal level and awareness level. Mental states have no oscillation, growth, or decay.
Mental states are processing states. Mental states are not physical states, because same mental state can have different physical forms.
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Mental states can be conscious, experienced, and subjective and result in experience, pain, sensations, emotions, and moods. Conscious mental states can be similar, such as seeing red and seeing orange, or different, such as seeing blue and seeing red or seeing and hearing.
Mental states can be pre-conscious or below awareness threshold.
Mental states can evaluate or categorize perception states and body states: arousal level, emotion type, success or failure, and pleasure or pain.
Natural mental states include awakeness, drowsiness, light sleep, dreaming, REM sleep, and deep sleep. Awakeness has high arousal and high awareness. Drowsiness has medium arousal and medium awareness. Light sleep has low arousal and low awareness. Dreaming has low arousal and high awareness. REM sleep has low arousal and medium awareness. Deep sleep has very low arousal and very low awareness.
Damage, disease, drugs, or exceptional circumstances cause impaired mental states. Impaired mental states include coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and locked-in syndrome. Coma has no arousal and no awareness. Vegetative state has high arousal and no awareness. Minimally conscious state has high arousal and low awareness. Locked-in syndrome has high arousal and high awareness. Drug mental states include coma and anesthesia. Anesthesia has almost no arousal and almost no awareness. Exceptional mental states include hypnosis, sleepwalking, near-death experiences, and mystical experiences.
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