An exploratory study of the Eastern understanding of déjà rêvé (already dreamed) experiences in Kerala-Indian culture.
In this study, a questionnaire was used to query 500 representative subjects in the Indian state of Kerala to ascertain the incidence frequencies of déjà vu experiences, precognitive dreams, and déjà rêvé experiences. The explanations favored for déjà vu experiences were also compared. The study found that déjà vu experiences are highly prevalent among Indians, but people with less education have no scientific knowledge of what these experiences are termed. Men reported déjà vu experiences slightly more frequently than women. The incidence of precognitive dreams is comparable to that in the West. All the partic...
Source: Dreaming - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The proportional experience of dream types in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder and insomnia among survivors of intimate partner violence.
This study explored 5 types of dreams and nightmares among 499 IPV survivors recruited through social media to complete an online cross-sectional survey. The dream types were selected based on theories of dreaming, suggesting it exists on a continuum of both repetition and emotion (i.e., dream or nightmare) and that more severe PTSD and insomnia symptomology should be linked to repetitive nightmares. Dream types were transformed for each participant into ratios that showed the proportion of each type of dreaming in relation to all the dreaming reported by the participant over the past 3 days. Then, multiple regressions wer...
Source: Dreaming - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nightmare prevalence in an outpatient pediatric psychiatry population: A brief report.
We report findings of nightmare screening conducted at an outpatient pediatric psychiatry facility. A total of 806 children were seen at the clinic over the period of the study; 782 parents of patients aged 3 to 17 received paper-and-pencil screeners. Of those, 678 (86.7%) completed the screeners, and 276 (40.7%) were positive for nightmares, with most children remembering their nightmares. A total of 89 (32.2%) “always” remembered their nightmares, and 165 (59.8%) “sometimes” remembered the nightmares. In addition, 155 (56.2%) had nightmares the week prior, and of those, 59 (38.1%) “always” remembered the nigh...
Source: Dreaming - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Solving the nightmare mystery: The autonomic nervous system as missing link in the aetiology and treatment of nightmares.
This article outlines how the theory may provide a missing link in understanding specific ways that trauma and adversity lead to chronic nightmares, and it offers a way to make sense of the heterogeneity of trauma-related symptoms and concomitant responses to nightmare treatments. A review of the literature demonstrates evidence of links between measures of ANS and physiological responses to nightmares. Content similarities between threat responses described by polyvagal theory and common nightmare themes provides an additional avenue for assessment and intervention. Theories of nightmare aetiology and treatment are evalua...
Source: Dreaming - October 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Experience of emotions in dreams: An empirical phenomenological study.
Dreaming, Vol 33(2), Jun 2023, 206-219; doi:10.1037/drm0000222We conducted an empirical phenomenological study of emotion experience in dreams. Unlike previous research in this field, we based our findings on phenomenological data while bracketing our assumptions and judgments about how emotions are experienced. Our study describes the external and internal dynamics of emotion experiences in dreams. We tried to show that phenomenology-based approaches are relevant for investigating experience in dreams and that they allow for a richer description and a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. We also highlight the question ...
Source: Dreaming - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Incidence of dreaming and subjective quality of general anesthesia with and without standardized stress relaxation and dream suggestion by the anesthesiologist: A prospective interventional randomized trial using an adaptive design.
Dreaming, Vol 33(3), Sep 2023, 264-274; doi:10.1037/drm0000215Objective was to investigate, if incidence of dreaming is increased, when positive suggestion of dreams is applied by an anesthesiologist preoperatively. Forty patients with standard care (Controls, CON) and 40 patients with dream suggestion (SUGG) before maxillofacial surgery were included in the study (33 female and 47 male patients). One day before surgery, patients with SUGG were requested to imagine a pleasant dream (dreamfilm) for anesthesia. Immediately before anesthesia, these patients were requested to imagine their dreams. After anesthesia, all patient...
Source: Dreaming - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Predicting the efficiency of lucid dreaming practice.
Dreaming, Vol 32(4), Dec 2022, 382-392; doi:10.1037/drm0000223Lucid dreaming (LD) are dreams in which humans maintain self-awareness. People may have different predispositions for mastering this skill, and a person’s level of LD mastery could be predicted by their dream recall frequency (DRF). Though this fact is well established, it was never controlled for specific sleep hours, and we do not know the extent of this correlation. To fill the gap, an online survey was administered among 594 adults who have tried to master LD. Significant Spearmen’s rho values (p (Source: Dreaming)
Source: Dreaming - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Recurrent dream themes: Frequency, emotional tone, and associated factors.
Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 235-248; doi:10.1037/drm0000221The majority of adults (50% to 75%) report that they have had at least once recurring dreams in their lives; most of these recurrent dreams, for example, being chased, are negatively toned. However, systematic research regarding the content of these dreams is relatively scarce. Within the present online survey, 676 participants (545 women, 131 men) with mean age of 27.26 ± 9.12 years reported a recurrent dream. About two thirds of the dream reports were negatively toned, with the most frequent topics being “failure or helplessness” and “being chased.” P...
Source: Dreaming - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Recurrent dream themes: Frequency, emotional tone, and associated factors.
The majority of adults (50% to 75%) report that they have had at least once recurring dreams in their lives; most of these recurrent dreams, for example, being chased, are negatively toned. However, systematic research regarding the content of these dreams is relatively scarce. Within the present online survey, 676 participants (545 women, 131 men) with mean age of 27.26 ± 9.12 years reported a recurrent dream. About two thirds of the dream reports were negatively toned, with the most frequent topics being “failure or helplessness” and “being chased.” Persons with high neuroticism scores were more likely to report...
Source: Dreaming - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attitudes toward dreams: The predictor of tendency to interpret dreams among modern Iranians.
This study addresses that with a questionnaire administered to 720 participants. Questionnaire responses were analyzed to determine whether attitudes toward dreams could be used to tendency toward dream interpretation. Findings showed that attitudes toward dreams can predict the attempt to interpret dreams by dreamers. As the scores of the dream guidance, dream apprehension, dream significance, and dream entertainment increased, the action of dream interpretation increased as well. The findings indicated that people, seek the meaning and interpretation of their dreams based on their previous experiences and attitudes. (Psy...
Source: Dreaming - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Pandemic dreams: A thematic analysis of university students’ dreams during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 221-234; doi:10.1037/drm0000219The aim of this study is to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the dream content of university students. This research, which is based on a qualitative design, is based on a phenomenological approach. The group of the study was determined by purposive sampling, and 221 dreams that 115 university students had recently and that were not repetitive (it was emphasized that dreams were not seen before the pandemic and at the same time were not recurring) were recorded in written form by online survey method. Thematic analysis method was used in the analysi...
Source: Dreaming - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attitudes toward dreams: The predictor of tendency to interpret dreams among modern Iranians.
This study addresses that with a questionnaire administered to 720 participants. Questionnaire responses were analyzed to determine whether attitudes toward dreams could be used to tendency toward dream interpretation. Findings showed that attitudes toward dreams can predict the attempt to interpret dreams by dreamers. As the scores of the dream guidance, dream apprehension, dream significance, and dream entertainment increased, the action of dream interpretation increased as well. The findings indicated that people, seek the meaning and interpretation of their dreams based on their previous experiences and attitudes. (Psy...
Source: Dreaming - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Pandemic dreams: A thematic analysis of university students’ dreams during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 221-234; doi:10.1037/drm0000219The aim of this study is to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the dream content of university students. This research, which is based on a qualitative design, is based on a phenomenological approach. The group of the study was determined by purposive sampling, and 221 dreams that 115 university students had recently and that were not repetitive (it was emphasized that dreams were not seen before the pandemic and at the same time were not recurring) were recorded in written form by online survey method. Thematic analysis method was used in the analysi...
Source: Dreaming - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attitudes toward dreams: The predictor of tendency to interpret dreams among modern Iranians.
This study addresses that with a questionnaire administered to 720 participants. Questionnaire responses were analyzed to determine whether attitudes toward dreams could be used to tendency toward dream interpretation. Findings showed that attitudes toward dreams can predict the attempt to interpret dreams by dreamers. As the scores of the dream guidance, dream apprehension, dream significance, and dream entertainment increased, the action of dream interpretation increased as well. The findings indicated that people, seek the meaning and interpretation of their dreams based on their previous experiences and attitudes. (Psy...
Source: Dreaming - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
