Attachment representations and early maladaptive schemas in children’s and adolescents’ dreams: A pilot study.
Based on the attachment promotion hypothesis of dreaming, this study explored the wake-to-dream continuity of youths’ attachment representations and early maladaptive schemas. A total of 19 children and adolescents (12 boys; M = 11.8 years, SD = 2.1) were administered the Child Attachment Interview and completed the self-reported Schema Inventory for Children. They were provided a digital audio recorder to report their dreams for 14 consecutive days. Data from 95 dreams (M = 5 per participant, SD = 2.6) were collected. Dream coding systems were developed to assess attachment- and schema-related content. Bootstrapped corr...
Source: Dreaming - August 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dream sharing and the enhancement of empathy: Theoretical and applied implications.
This study replicated and extended a previous finding that the discussion of dreams increases the level of empathy toward the dreamer from those with whom the dream is discussed. The study addressed mediating variables for the empathy effect. Participants who already knew each other were recruited in dyads and were assigned dream-sharer and discusser roles. Each dyad used the Ullman dream appreciation technique to explore the relationship of the sharer’s dreams to recent experiences in the sharer’s life, with a maximum of 4 dream discussions per dyad (mean length of dreams = 140.15 words, mean discussion length = 23.72...
Source: Dreaming - August 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Lucid dreams in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder include nightmares.
A previous study in military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and recurrent nightmares found a high prevalence of lucid dreaming (LD), the awareness while a dream continues that one is dreaming, and an “LD profile” characterized by frequent dream awareness and rare dream content control. Given the importance of the nightmare disturbance in PTSD, this study assessed with questionnaires the prevalence and characteristics of lucid nightmares, specifically, in a sample of 54 veterans with PTSD. Over half the sample endorsed experiencing LD, with nearly all of these individuals explicitly reporting lucidit...
Source: Dreaming - August 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Working on dreams to facilitate Asian international university students’ transition to the United States.
We investigated the perceptions of the effectiveness of a single 60- to 90-min session of Hill’s (2004) model of dream work for 37 Asian international students who had recently come to the United States. Participants reported having made gains in terms of exploration, insight, and action from the dream sessions and having made changes in their lives, although they did not change significantly in terms of psychological distress and acculturative stress from presession to the 2-week follow-up. A total of 2 weeks after their dream session, a subset of 14 participants participated in follow-up interviews about their percepti...
Source: Dreaming - August 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The African origin of familial consciousness and the dynamics of dreaming.
This article is a conceptual overview of this tradition, beginning with its cultural-historical roots to its clinical influence in practices today. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Dreaming)
Source: Dreaming - August 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The twelve labors of Zora Neale Hurston: Myths, dreams, and the heroic interpretation of life.
Novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston experienced a recurrent dream throughout her life, beginning in childhood. The dream consisted of about 12 “scenes” that she understood as prophesying important moments of her life. In this article, I consider the origin of the dream, its function in her life, the apparent relation of the dream contents to her waking life, and alternate versions of the important final scene of the dream. Hurston’s dream likely originated out of the tension between the young Hurston’s high intelligence, imaginativeness, and ambition, on the one hand, and the highly restrictive environme...
Source: Dreaming - July 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Response to Bontempo e Silvia and Sandström (2020).
The article referred to in the title quoted a passage from one of C. G. Jung’s articles in such a way that it could give a false impression of Jung’s attitude concerning dreams. Here, the quotation is provided in full and supplementary information is provided concerning Jung’s approach to working with so-called “everyday” dreams. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Dreaming)
Source: Dreaming - April 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
I dream therefore I am: A review on lucid dreaming in Western philosophy.
The first philosopher who referred to lucid dreaming (LD) was Aristotle, who pointed out that something in the dreamers’ consciousness tells them they are dreaming. In the Middle Ages, Aquinas commented that while asleep a man may judge that what he sees is a dream. During enlightenment, Reid alleged that he experienced waking-like cognition during dreams. In the 19th century, Nietzsche mentioned that he sometimes would realize he was dreaming amid a nightmare. In the past century, new arguments were given against the arising of self-consciousness in dreams. Malcolm, for example, based on the incapacity of communicating ...
Source: Dreaming - April 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Offender-nightmares—Frequencies and characteristics.
In nightmares, the dream-self is mostly the victim, but there are also dreams in which the dream-self is the offender. Little is known yet about these offender-nightmares; thus, the main goal of the present study was to carry out the frequencies of offender-nightmares and to investigate if the dream-self is offending mostly in self-defense and anger, or whether the dream-self is offending out of fun and pleasure. Besides, personality traits of offender-nightmare dreamers, non–offender-nightmare dreamers, and nonnightmare dreamers are observed. Results show that the prevalence of offender-nightmares is not as high as in p...
Source: Dreaming - April 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Targets of erotic dreams and their associations with waking couple and sexual life.
We examined the targets of erotic dreams reported by 470 men and 575 women in a romantic relationship as well as the associations between these targets and measures of couple and sexual life. Over 95% of all participants reported having erotic dreams. Women were more likely than men to report that their erotic dreams included their current partner, whereas men were more likely to report dreaming of someone other than their current partner, especially an acquaintance. Logistic regression analyses revealed that individuals in relationships of longer duration, with higher relationship satisfaction, greater sexual desire, and ...
Source: Dreaming - April 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Association between recurrent dreams, disturbing dreams, and suicidal ideation in adolescents.
Disturbing dreams and recurrent dreams have both been linked to a wide range of psychological difficulties in children. There is growing evidence that the experience of frequent disturbing dreams is associated with suicidal ideation in adults, but studies in young adolescents have been limited and the results inconsistent. In addition, the possible relationship between suicidal ideation and recurrent dreams has yet to be studied. We thus investigated the relation between disturbing dreams, recurrent dreams, and suicidal ideation in a sample of young adolescents. Self-report measures of disturbing dream frequency, recurrent...
Source: Dreaming - April 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How sleep disordered breathing impacts posttrauma nightmares and rescripting therapies.
In conclusion, our results demonstrate that PNMs in the presence of SDB symptoms (complex PNMs) may differ in content than PNMs without comorbid SDB symptoms (isolated PNMs) and that SDB symptoms may interfere with the efficacy of rescripting focused therapies. Future research is needed to determine if there is truly a difference between complex PNMs and isolated PNMs and if types of nightmares (complex and isolated) fare better under different treatment options (continuous positive air pressure vs. rescripting focused therapies). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Dreaming)
Source: Dreaming - April 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Media exposure to COVID-19 epidemic and threatening dream frequency: A moderated mediation model of anxiety and coping efficacy.
This study contributes to our understanding of the mechanism between trauma exposure and threatening dreams. It also provides us promising ways to manage posttrauma threatening dreams by increasing coping efficacy and decreasing media exposure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Dreaming)
Source: Dreaming - April 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Increasing perception vividness during lucid dreaming by spinning: A pilot study.
In lucid dreams (LDs), people can control the events of the dream plot and experience vivid perceptions. However, perception vividness in LDs is sometimes very low, thus preventing practitioners from fully experiencing the phenomenon or using it for a predetermined goal. The goal of this research is to test whether spinning in a LD can lead to an increase in the vividness of the perceived space. We had 123 volunteers spin while in a LD and then stop to check for changes in the degree of perception. For 46% of the volunteers, vividness became higher after spinning, and 30% of them (14% of all) reported having perceptions hi...
Source: Dreaming - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nightmares as a unique predictor of suicide risk in a transgender and gender diverse sample.
Transgender and gender diverse individuals are at an increased risk for suicidality. Previous research in the general population has shown that trauma exposure is linked to suicide risk and nightmares, which commonly occur following exposure to a traumatic event, have also been linked to suicidal thoughts, attempts, and death by suicide. The current study examined the relationship among trauma exposure, sleep disturbance, and suicide risk in a sample of 155 transgender individuals. Data were gathered through an online Qualtrics survey regarding participants’ trauma exposure, endorsement of posttraumatic stress disorder (...
Source: Dreaming - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
