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Eveliina Malinen

3 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2024-2026

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Individual and Situational Predictors of Threatening Dream Content During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic

Journal of Sleep Research April 2, 2026 Ville Loukola, Jarno Tuominen, Eveliina Malinen et al.

Previous studies have examined how the COVID-19 pandemic affected dream recall, dream content, and nightmares. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the individual and situational factors associated with pandemic-induced changes in dreams. The threat simulation theory of dreaming predicts that threatening situations in our waking life (situational factors) influence...

Individual and situational factors predicting threatening events and pandemic-related threatening events in dreams during the COVID-19 pandemic

September 11, 2025 Ville Loukola, Jarno Tuominen, Eveliina Malinen et al. preprint

Previous studies have examined how the COVID-19 pandemic affected dream recall, dream content, and nightmares. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the individual and situational factors associated with pandemic-induced changes in dreams. The threat simulation theory of dreaming predicts that threatening situations in our waking life (situational factors) influence...

Viral simulations in dreams: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on threatening dream content in a Finnish sample of diary dreams

Consciousness and Cognition February 8, 2024 Ville Loukola, Jarno Tuominen, Santeri Kirsilä et al. 4 citations

Previous research indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected dreaming negatively. We compared 1132 dreams collected with prospective two-week dream diary during the pandemic to 166 dreams collected before the pandemic. We hypothesized that the pandemic would increase the number of threatening events, threats related to diseases, and the severity of threats. We also hypothesized that...