0135 AI-Estimated Emotional Complexity in Dreams is Related to Adaptive Self-Reported Dream Affect Dynamics
SLEEPJ May 1, 2026 Lacey Nguyen, G. Baber, Nancy Hamilton
Dreaming is theorized to facilitate emotion regulation through processes resembling exposure therapy. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) now allow researchers to scale dream research by automatically estimating emotional content in dream narratives. However, prospective studies applying sentiment analysis to examine the relationship between dream affect and emotion regulation remain...