Pandemic dreams: A thematic analysis of university students’ dreams during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The 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 analysis of the data. The six main themes that emerged as a result of...
Source: Dreaming - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Direct and indirect effects of dispositional emotion regulation on dream experiences.
Dreaming, Vol 32(4), Dec 2022, 393-407; doi:10.1037/drm0000216In view of the paucity of research on the role of dispositional emotion regulation in dreaming, this study comprehensively examined the indirect effects of cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, and the difficulties of regulating positive and negative emotions on dreaming through waking positive and negative emotions. A total of 249 Chinese adults with the mean age of 32.52 years (SD = 10.60) were invited to complete the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory, Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule, Brief Fo...
Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Text analysis of veteran nightmare scripts in a cognitive-behavioral nightmare treatment.
This study reports on the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count variables of word count, affective processes, positive and negative emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives in 20 veterans participating in a study examining the efficacy of exposure, relaxation, and rescripting therapy for posttrauma nightmares. It was hypothesized that there would be significant increases in affective processes, positive emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives and significant decreases in negative emotion words and word count from nightmare transcription to rescription. It was further hypothesized that noncombat-related nightmares ...
Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nightmare frequency and nightmare distress: Relationship to the big five personality factors and sensory-processing sensitivity.
Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 257-268; doi:10.1037/drm0000214Previous research has shown that Big Five personality factors such as Neuroticism and Openness to Experience are related to both the frequency and severity of nightmares. Recent theoretical and empirical work suggests that trait sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS), characterized by heightened emotional and sensory sensitivity, may better describe nightmare-prone individuals. The current study aimed to test whether SPS factors (Low Sensory Threshold, Ease of Excitation, and Aesthetic Sensitivity) contribute to nightmare frequency and nightmare distress in additi...
Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Text analysis of veteran nightmare scripts in a cognitive-behavioral nightmare treatment.
This study reports on the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count variables of word count, affective processes, positive and negative emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives in 20 veterans participating in a study examining the efficacy of exposure, relaxation, and rescripting therapy for posttrauma nightmares. It was hypothesized that there would be significant increases in affective processes, positive emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives and significant decreases in negative emotion words and word count from nightmare transcription to rescription. It was further hypothesized that noncombat-related nightmares ...
Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nightmare frequency and nightmare distress: Relationship to the big five personality factors and sensory-processing sensitivity.
Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 257-268; doi:10.1037/drm0000214Previous research has shown that Big Five personality factors such as Neuroticism and Openness to Experience are related to both the frequency and severity of nightmares. Recent theoretical and empirical work suggests that trait sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS), characterized by heightened emotional and sensory sensitivity, may better describe nightmare-prone individuals. The current study aimed to test whether SPS factors (Low Sensory Threshold, Ease of Excitation, and Aesthetic Sensitivity) contribute to nightmare frequency and nightmare distress in additi...
Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Text analysis of veteran nightmare scripts in a cognitive-behavioral nightmare treatment.
This study reports on the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count variables of word count, affective processes, positive and negative emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives in 20 veterans participating in a study examining the efficacy of exposure, relaxation, and rescripting therapy for posttrauma nightmares. It was hypothesized that there would be significant increases in affective processes, positive emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives and significant decreases in negative emotion words and word count from nightmare transcription to rescription. It was further hypothesized that noncombat-related nightmares ...
Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nightmare frequency and nightmare distress: Relationship to the big five personality factors and sensory-processing sensitivity.
Previous research has shown that Big Five personality factors such as Neuroticism and Openness to Experience are related to both the frequency and severity of nightmares. Recent theoretical and empirical work suggests that trait sensory-processing sensitivity (SPS), characterized by heightened emotional and sensory sensitivity, may better describe nightmare-prone individuals. The current study aimed to test whether SPS factors (Low Sensory Threshold, Ease of Excitation, and Aesthetic Sensitivity) contribute to nightmare frequency and nightmare distress in addition to the well-known associations with neuroticism and opennes...
Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The effectiveness of lucid dreaming practice on waking task performance: A scoping review of evidence and meta-analysis.
Dreaming, Vol 33(3), Sep 2023, 292-315; doi:10.1037/drm0000209A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer becomes aware of the fact that they are experiencing a dream. The higher awareness and cognitive traits which accompany lucid dreams offer individuals a unique opportunity to use this practice to rehearse waking skills. This scoping review aimed to summarize existing evidence on the effectiveness of lucid dreaming practice (LDP) on the performance of waking skills and used a meta-analytical approach to estimate an overall effect of LDP. A total of seven studies were reviewed. Findings indicate that LDP can improv...
Source: Dreaming - July 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Bodily Self-Consciousness in Dreams Questionnaire (BSD-Q) and its relation to waking dissociative experiences.
In conclusion, the results showed that all of the modalities pertain to bodily self-consciousness in dreams and are significantly correlated with waking state dissociative experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Dreaming)
Source: Dreaming - July 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nightmares and nondisturbed dreams impact daily change in negative emotion.
Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 292-313; doi:10.1037/drm0000213The current naturalistic study used a novel multilevel lagged regressed change analysis to compare how different dream types predict distinct patterns of change in negative emotion during next-day wakefulness. For up to 21 mornings, 191 adults used an online dream log to report whether they had dreamed and—if so—which emotional content categories of dream they had experienced; next, they rated their current level of negative emotion. Aligning with theory suggesting a behavior-dependent emotional processing function of dreaming, it was hypothesized that nondi...
Source: Dreaming - June 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nightmares and nondisturbed dreams impact daily change in negative emotion.
The current naturalistic study used a novel multilevel lagged regressed change analysis to compare how different dream types predict distinct patterns of change in negative emotion during next-day wakefulness. For up to 21 mornings, 191 adults used an online dream log to report whether they had dreamed and—if so—which emotional content categories of dream they had experienced; next, they rated their current level of negative emotion. Aligning with theory suggesting a behavior-dependent emotional processing function of dreaming, it was hypothesized that nondisturbed dreams and bad dreams would aid in emotional processin...
Source: Dreaming - June 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Interactions with family members in students’ dreams.
Dreaming, Vol 33(1), Mar 2023, 19-31; doi:10.1037/drm0000212The present study examined the frequency of core family members (mother, father, brother, and sister) in dreams and their interactions with the dreamer. The dreams were collected via dream diaries. Dream content was analyzed using the Hall and Van de Castle rating system. Overall, 28.9% of the 1,612 dreams reported by 425 participants (361 females and 64 males) included at least one member of the core family. The mother as a single figure appeared most often (13.4%). The father and “parents” as a unit occurred the second most (7.6%), followed by sister (7.6%),...
Source: Dreaming - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Characteristics of dreams and nightmares in patients with anxiety disorders.
Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 314-329; doi:10.1037/drm0000211Characteristics of dreams of clinical outpatients with anxiety disorders still remain a relatively poorly investigated field of psychology. The present study aimed at investigating several dream characteristics of outpatients with anxiety disorders in comparison with dream characteristics of healthy individuals. In the study, 38 adult participants with anxiety disorders and a matched healthy control group of 38 individuals were investigated. During a period of 21 days, all participants filled in written dream diaries directly after sleep, which contained two sca...
Source: Dreaming - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
