Introduction: The return to normal life following the COVID-19 pandemic was evaluated in terms of anxiety upon awakening, sleep quality indicators, and dream characteristics. Methods: The sample comprised 394 women and 107 men who completed an online self-report questionnaire between August 15, 2022, and December 8, 2022 about their sleep and dream experience from the previous night....
Introduction: Evolutionary threat simulation theories posit that dreams and nightmares recreate risk scenarios that activate cognitive systems with potential clinical implications. Having a scale to assess these scenarios—or “oneiric settings”—could help to understand and test these theories, while also proving useful for the assessment of dreams and nightmares. Objectives: To examine the...
Objectives: \nControlling report length in dream content analysis comprises a significant methodological problem. Individual differences occur in report length which can influence category coding and rating scales. Differences are also found in dream content by sex and age. The aim of this study is to determine the bias of certain variables in dream content analysis when using rating scales,...