Physical self-concept and the frequency of lucid dreams and nightmares.
This study investigated the association of physical self-concept with dream recall frequency, lucid dream frequency, and nightmare frequency. Previous research reported negative associations between physical self-concept and dreaming behavior among sport students. Using a large sample from the general population (N = 2,904), we found no associations of physical self-concept with dream recall frequency and lucid dream frequency. Associations with nightmare frequency were negative and significant, yet practically irrelevant. We conclude that previously reported negative associations of physical self-concept with dream behavi...
Source: Dreaming - November 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hausberger, Andreas; Pollak, Peter; Tran, Ulrich S. Source Type: research
Violence, sex, and dreams: Violent and sexual media content infiltrate our dreams at night.
In this study, 1,287 Turkish participants completed a survey about their media consumption and their dreams the previous night. We measured the frequency of their media consumption and the violent and sexual content of the media they consumed on a regular basis and on the day before the survey. We also measured whether they had a dream the night before they completed the survey and dream content if they dreamed (51.5% dreamed). We measured whether participants had dreams with violent and sexual content. Similar results were obtained for regular media consumption and for media consumption on the day before the survey. For b...
Source: Dreaming - November 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Van den Bulck, Jan; Çetin, Yakup; Terzi, Ömer; Bushman, Brad J. Source Type: research
Nightmare prevalence, distress, and anxiety among young children.
This study investigated the relationship between nightmares and anxiety in young children. A sample of 45 parent –child pairs completed a demographic questionnaire, parent- and child-reported nightmare questionnaires, and a parent-reported anxiety scale. Results indicated that children reported significantly more nightmares and a higher level of nightmare distress compared to their parents. A positive relati onship was found between parent- and child-reported nightmare frequency but not nightmare distress. Children who reported to have more frequent nightmares were also rated by their parent to have higher anxiety. No ge...
Source: Dreaming - October 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Floress, Margaret T.; Kuhn, Brett R.; Bernas, Ronan S.; Dandurand, Megan Source Type: research
The < em > Yellow Emperor ’s Canon of Internal Medicine < /em > and the interpretation of typical dreams two millennia ago.
This article reviews how the narrative content of dreams is interpreted in ancient China and compares the dream themes illustrated in Huang-di Nei-jing with those typical dream themes enumerated by Freud and contemporary researchers. A 3-tier model of dream expression is put fo rward in light of the theoretical implications of Huang-di Nei-jing for understanding the formation of dream content. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Dreaming)
Source: Dreaming - September 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yu, Calvin Kai-Ching Source Type: research
Posttraumatic nightmares and imagery rehearsal: The possible role of lucid dreaming.
This study reports on the nature of LD constructs in 33 treatment-seeking Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans participating in a larger clinical trial of 6 sessions of 1 of 2 therapies: components of Cognitive –Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (cCBT-I) or IR + cCBT-I. Participants completed questionnaires regarding sleep and nightmares, other PTSD symptoms, and LD before and after treatment. Before treatment, veterans demonstrated a LD profile characterized by high dream awareness and low dream content c ontrol. After IR + cCBT-I treatment, control of dream content, but not lucid awareness, increased more than after cCBT...
Source: Dreaming - September 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Harb, Gerlinde C.; Brownlow, Janeese A.; Ross, Richard J. Source Type: research
Content analysis of Chinese dreams —Pleasure or pain?
Unlike dream reports around the world, Chinese people ’s dreams seem to display more pleasant affect and content. In view of this cultural disparity, the present study examined whether the predominance of unpleasant dream content revealed by Western studies using the Dream Threat Scale and the Hall and Van de Castle (1966) coding system could be repl icated in a sample of dreams reported by Chinese people. The sample consisted of 252 most recently recalled dreams and 228 diary dreams collected from 286 Chinese participants over 3 consecutive nights. The employment of the Hall and Van de Castle system in dream coding was ...
Source: Dreaming - September 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hsu, Sharon S.; Yu, Calvin Kai-Ching Source Type: research
Dream contents of early adolescents, adolescents, and young adults: A cluster analysis with T-LAB.
A text analysis of dreams and waking-life narratives let us detect typical dream contents. The sample is composed of 1,000 subjects, from early adolescents to young adults, including males and females. For each subject, we collected a dream and a waking-life episode according to “the most recent dream” (Hartmann, Elkin,& Garg, 1991) and “a recent episode” methodology (Maggiolini, Cagnin, Crippa, Persico,& Rizzi, 2010). Through a word analysis, we were able to identify the typical narratives of dreams and episodes. We identified 5 clusters of dreams: dreams of (a) fear and escape, (b) school, (c) competition and spo...
Source: Dreaming - August 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maggiolini, Alfio; Morelli, Mara; Falotico, Elisa; Montali, Lorenzo Source Type: research
Dreams of hearing-impaired, compared with hearing, individuals are more sensory and emotional.
An early report suggested that the sensory content of dreams differed between those who are and are not hearing impaired; more recent studies have indicated there are no differences. We surveyed 86 students attending a special needs school for the deaf regarding sensory content of their dreams, and compared the results with those of 344 hearing students attending an ordinary high school. Participants were given a 25-item questionnaire regarding remembered dreams of the preceding month that measured dream recall frequency, vividness of dreams, and the frequency of experience of 9 sensory modalities and 10 emotions. The resu...
Source: Dreaming - August 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Okada, Hitoshi; Wakasaya, Kei Source Type: research
Qualitative changes in recurrent PTSD nightmares after focusing-oriented dreamwork.
This study included the development and use of an abbreviated focusing-oriented dreamwork (FOD) treatment protocol for trauma survivors with repetitive PTSD nightmares and an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of the dream changes that resulted from treatment. Participants were 5 clients from the Vancouver Association for the Survivors of Torture (VAST) who experienced clinically significant PTSD symptoms, including repetitive trauma-related nightmares. After FOD treatment, participants ’ dreams began to change in specific ways. The identity of the dream aggressor shifted from known to unknown or vice versa, ...
Source: Dreaming - August 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ellis, Leslie A. Source Type: research
The continuity between waking-life musical activities and music dreams" : Correction to Vogelsang et al. (2016).
Discussion section, second paragraph, the last phrase of the first sentence should read: but much higher compared with the sample of Schredl et al. (2015). In the Discussion section, the last phrase of the third paragraph should read: we re much higher and, thus, detecting a substantial relationship was more likely. In the Discussion section, seventh paragraph, the second to the last sentence should read: This relationship has been shown for athletes. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2016-14253-001. ) As expressed in anecdotal reports, dreams have provided inspiration to both classical and...
Source: Dreaming - June 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: No authorship indicated Source Type: research
Correction to Vogelsang et al. (2016).
Discussion section, second paragraph, the last phrase of the first sentence should read: but much higher compared with the sample of Schredl et al. (2015). In the Discussion section, the last phrase of the third paragraph should read: were much higher and, thus, detecting a substantial relationship was more likely. In the Discussion section, seventh paragraph, the second to the last sentence should read: This relationship has been shown for athletes. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2016-14253-001.) As expressed in anecdotal reports, dreams have provided inspiration to both classical and p...
Source: Dreaming - June 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: No authorship indicated Source Type: research
Intensified daydreams and nap dreams in frequent nightmare sufferers.
Nightmares (NMs) are characterized by intense negative emotion. Research suggests that frequent NM sufferers also have greater inclinations to fantasy and dream-like daydreams, although it is not known whether they experience intense negative emotion as part of these waking state cognitions. We assessed the daydreams and nap dreams of NM participants to determine whether they have more negative daydream content and more vivid imagery overall. NM and control (CTL) participants completed a daydream procedure followed by a nap targeted to contain 80 min total sleep time and an awakening 10 min into rapid eye movement (REM) sl...
Source: Dreaming - June 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carr, Michelle; Blanchette-Carrière, Cloé; Solomonova, Elizaveta; Paquette, Tyna; Nielsen, Tore Source Type: research
Psychosocial intervention and dreaming among war-affected Palestinian children.
We examined, first, what kind of dreams can protect children’s mental health from impacts of war trauma, and, second, analyzed whether a psychosocial intervention (Teaching Recovery Techniques [TRT]) is effective in changing dream characteristics (e.g., bizarreness, emotional valence, and the dreamer’s role) to be more beneficial or functional. Dream data of 257 Palestinian children (56.3% girls: 10–13-years) based on 14-night diaries was collected in the aftermath of a major war. Of these children 150 participated in the TRT and 107 were controls. They reported their posttraumatic stress (PTSD), depressive symptoms,...
Source: Dreaming - June 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Qouta, Samir R.; Peltonen, Kirsi; Diab, Safwat Y.; Anttila, Suvi; Palosaari, Esa; Punamäki, Raija-Leena Source Type: research
Wakefulness and dreaming: Unusual events and their cognitive processing during waking and dreaming.
Subjective reports have supported the assumption that dream sleep and waking manifest differences that correlate with the neurobiological bases of the 2 conscious states. These differences should appear in the quality and quantity of cognition and reasoning. Using the affirmative probe method, we compared quantity, recognition and consequences (logic reasoning) of unusual events (bizarre, unreal, irrational, and not possible in reality) during dreaming and waking. In 2 studies, students created dream and waking reports, and indicated unusual events and their cognitive processing. While dreaming, significantly more unusual ...
Source: Dreaming - March 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Schwerdtle, Barbara; Häfner, Stefan; Hobson, J. Allan; Kübler, Andrea Source Type: research
People ’s views on dreaming: Attitudes and subjective dream theories, with regard to age, education, and sex.
The study investigated subjective theories of dream function (why do we dream) —measured as level of agreement with selected prescientific and contemporary views of science (N = 667) and thus explored differences in dream attitude with respect to age, educational level, and sex. A factor analysis revealed 3 factors. One can be described as seeing dreams as meaningful informa tion processing (memory consolidation, sorting inputs, and solving problems), a 2nd included prescientific dream theory (dreams as messages from outside and/or from deceased, or dreams as prophecies). A 3rd factor included viewing dreams as insignifi...
Source: Dreaming - March 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Olsen, Michael Rohde; Schredl, Michael; Carlsson, Ingegerd Source Type: research
