Dream recall, nightmares, dream sharing, and personality: A replication study.
Previous research indicated that dream variables such as dream recall, dream sharing, and nightmares are related to personality traits. However, the overall number of studies in this field is rather small, and this data set serves as a necessary replication. Overall, 819 persons (636 women, 183 men) with a mean age of 27.47 ± 9.32 years participated in an online survey. Findings indicated that dream recall was associated with openness to experience, nightmares mainly with neuroticism and—to a smaller extent—with openness to experience, and dream sharing with extraversion. As this pattern of findings is in line with pr...
Source: Dreaming - March 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dreaming and lucidity in synesthesia.
Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which the stimulation of 1 sensory modality automatically and consistently over time evokes a sensation in the same or a different modality in an idiosyncratic manner. In addition to pure sensory coupling, synesthetes are characterized by cognitive peculiarities, such as abnormalities in perception, creativity, advantages in vocabulary, and vivid imagery. The present work is concerned with the question of the extent to which synesthetes’ unusual perception is reflected in the dream state. Little is known about synesthetes’ dreaming behavior. Dreams are equated with the unconscious process...
Source: Dreaming - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A cross-cultural comparison of typical dreams among Naxi and Han Chinese dreamers.
The present study is a cross-cultural comparison of typical dreams among Naxi and Han Chinese dreamers. The research is based on 369 interviews (174 Naxi and 195 Han Chinese) combined with responses to the Typical Dreams Questionnaire. The results indicate that although dream themes are universal and reproducible, their frequency and significance are influenced by cultural tradition, geographical environment, and other factors. In addition, Naxi women were found to remember their dreams more often than Naxi men do, and Naxi people appear to recall their dreams more often than Han people do. Among the themes that Naxi peopl...
Source: Dreaming - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Measurement of dreams by SCORS and LIWC: Prelude to dreamwork in psychotherapy.
This article provides normative data on the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale–Form L (SCORS-L) applied to normal college students’ dreams. Concurrent computer text analysis of 630 college students’ recent dreams and important dreams using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count 2007 (LIWC 2007) was done to provide construct validation for the SCORS-L dream rating measure. SCORS-L affect and object relations content scales were significantly positively correlated with LIWC first person plural pronouns, social category words, and affiliation. SCORS-L scales involving cognitive content were significantly correlated ...
Source: Dreaming - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A presleep consideration of an intrusive thought enhances the possibility of dreaming of it.
This study investigated whether focusing on an intrusive thought before sleeping led to an increased likelihood of dreaming of the thought. A total of 150 participants were randomly assigned to three different kinds of conditions: an expression condition (focus on an intrusive thought for 5 min before sleeping), a suppression condition (suppress an intrusive thought for 5 min before sleeping), and a control condition (think about anything for 5 min before sleeping). Also, they completed a dream diary upon waking. Of them, 126 participants provide valid data for further analysis (40 from the expression condition, 43 from th...
Source: Dreaming - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relationships between attitudes toward dreams, typical dreams, and emotions among chinese college students.
This study aimed to investigate the attitudes, themes, and negative emotions associated with dreams in 1,242 Chinese college students (74.4% female, 25.6% male; aged 18–30 years, Mage = 19.29, SDage = 1.38) in the postpandemic period. Data were obtained using an online questionnaire survey. The results indicated that the attitude of Chinese college students toward dreams in the postepidemic period was generally positive, the number of dream memories increased, and many dreams focused on a relatively rare theme of “having magical powers,” which was prevalent in students who were also experiencing negative emotions. St...
Source: Dreaming - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Imperial dreams and oneiromancy in ancient China—we share similar dream motifs with our ancestors living two millennia ago.
This study therefore examined whether dreams documented in the earliest Chinese archives (475 BC–445 AD) contained typical themes that people dream in the present day. In addition, it analyzed how ancient Chinese oneirocritics interpreted those dreams. A total of 76 dreams were found in 14 ancient Chinese classics. More than half were dreamed by either emperors or empress dowagers. Around 76% contained at least 1 typical theme, the most prevalent theme featuring a person already dead as alive. Giving a reason for taking a certain action was the most common dream oracle. Indirect representation via collective or personal ...
Source: Dreaming - March 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Indigenous Chinese personality and dream content of Hong Kong and Taiwanese people.
This study investigated whether indigenous Chinese personality traits bear on dream content across Hong Kong and Taiwanese people. The sample contained 100 Hong Kong and 103 Taiwanese participants, who were asked to complete the Self Versus Social Orientation, Family Orientation, Harmony, and Thrift Versus Extravagance scales of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory and provide a dream narrative using the Most Recent Dream Report. Each dream report was coded separately by 2 trained judges using Hall and Van de Castle’s content analysis system and Yu’s Dream Motif Scale. The overall findings indicate that the 4 i...
Source: Dreaming - March 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Automated analysis of dream sentiment—The royal road to dream dynamics?
Valence Aware Dictionary for sEntiment Reasoning (VADER) is an automated software program for analyzing textual data based on an established lexicon and annotated lexical features. Support-vector machine (SVM) is a popular machine-learning model for solving classification problems. VADER and SVM can serve as potential alternatives to the conventional content analysis and Linguistic Inventory and Word Count analysis of dream emotions. The study presented here aimed to evaluate the overall affective valence of dreams using both the VADER and SVM methods. A total of 2,600 dreams primarily obtained from an open source—includ...
Source: Dreaming - February 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Lucid nightmare as a state midway between nightmare and lucid dream.
Lucid nightmares, which are distinguished by their qualities pertaining to both nightmares and lucid dreams, might constitute a hybrid state in between a nightmare and a lucid dream. To test the notion that some lucid dreams might be transformed from nightmares, this study examined a structural equation model in which nightmares were hypothesized to predict lucid nightmares and therefore lucid dreams, with consideration of positive and negative trait emotions. This model was tested on a sample of 249 Hong Kong Chinese adults. The latent constructs of the model were indicated by the items and subscales adopted from the Drea...
Source: Dreaming - February 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dynamics of consciousness in dreams.
The state of consciousness changes between dream and wake spacetimes. Subjects in disparate cultures were studied to determine the transformations of consciousness from physiological state to dreams. Consciousness was in the physiological state when the observables of self, perception, cognition, language, and emotion were as expected in the population. Pathological states of consciousness in dreams include loss of self-awareness, high-resolution perception, enhanced cognition, entanglement, and teleportation. Observables were extracted from dream narratives of medical students and Dream Database subjects using natural lan...
Source: Dreaming - January 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dream recall frequency and sensory-processing sensitivity.
The lifestyle hypothesis of dream recall emphasizes psychological factors in explaining interindividual differences in dream recall frequency. Recent findings suggest that neurophysiological traits such as default mode network connectivity might also help to explain differences in dream recall. A sample of 1,807 participants (1,008 women, 799 men) with a mean age of 47.75 ± 14.41 years completed an online survey including the Highly Sensitivity Person Scale, the Big Five personality questionnaire, and a dream recall frequency scale. The finding of a relationship between aesthetic sensitivity (a subfactor of sensory proces...
Source: Dreaming - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A moderated mediation model predicting the impact of nightmares on sleep quality.
Nightmares can yield deleterious effects on sleep quality; therefore, it is important to identify modifiable predictors of nightmare distress in order to promote better sleep outcomes. Lucid dreaming and trait mindfulness are both associated with decreased nightmares and may indirectly improve sleep quality; furthermore, these factors may have synergistic effects. To test this, a moderated mediation model was examined. Contrary to our hypothesis, results showed that lucid dreaming was associated with greater nightmare distress, which predicted worse sleep quality, but this effect was moderated by total mindfulness and the ...
Source: Dreaming - December 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Study of the images and contents in typical dreams of heart transplant recipients.
The present study investigated the typical dreams of heart transplant recipients (HTRs) in China using questionnaires (Typical Dream Questionnaire) and semistructured interviews. The most prevalent dream themes among the 81 HTRs studied are “a dead person is alive in dreams,” “being chased or pursued but not physically injured,” and “being physically attacked (beaten, stabbed, raped, etc.).” In all, 2 important research threads from the semistructured interviews are dreams HTRs had in the intensive care unit after surgery and dreams related to their heart donors. The purpose of this dream research is to better ...
Source: Dreaming - December 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Analysis of dream contents of patients with anxiety disorders and their comparison with dreams of healthy participants.
Although anxiety disorders are well investigated, little is known about the dream content of patients suffering from anxiety disorders. The aim of the present study was to investigate specific characteristics manifested in dreams of patients with clinical anxiety disorders and to compare them with dreams of healthy persons. The sample consisted of 38 participants with anxiety disorders and a matched healthy control group of 38 individuals. As soon as they woke up in the morning, each participant filled in written dream diaries for 21 days and thus provided written dream logs. Dream reports of the participants were analyzed...
Source: Dreaming - December 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
