The content and structure of dreams are coupled to affect
July 22, 2025 Luke Leckie, Anya K. Bershad, Jes Heppler et al.
Dreams offer a unique window into the cognitive and affective dynamics of the sleeping and the waking mind. Recent quantitative linguistic approaches have shown promise in obtaining corpus-level measures of dream sentiment and topic occurrence. However, it is currently unclear how the affective content of individual dreams relates to their semantic content and structure. Here, we combine word...