Dream sharing and positive mental health in Iranian culture.

This study was administered to 720 participants whose questionnaire responses were analyzed to determine if they told their dreams to others, how much do they share their dreams, whom they told their dreams, what kind of dreams were more told to others, for what purpose and finally, what is the relationship between sharing positive/negative dreams with positive mental health? Findings showed that dream sharing is common and people most shared their dreams with their close persons includes spouse, mother, and friends, respectively. Dreams were mostly shared with the purpose of understanding the meaning of dreams and people sharing both positive and negative dreams with others but sharing positive dreams, both positive and negative dreams and even not sharing dreams are related to more positive mental health than sharing negative dreams. Overall, the findings indicated that dream sharing is common and can be associated by mental health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Dreaming - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research