The effects of suppressing intrusive thoughts on dream content, dream distress and psychological parameters
Journal of Sleep Research May 16, 2013 Tana Kröner-Borowik, Stefanie Gosch, Kathrin Hansen et al. 26 citations
Suppressing unwanted thoughts can lead to an increased occurrence of the suppressed thought in dreams. This is explainable by the ironic control theory, which theorizes why the suppression of thoughts might make them more persistent. The present study examined the influence of thought suppression on dream rebound, dream distress, general psychiatric symptomatology, depression, sleep quality and...