Fear in Dreams Predicts Stronger Affect Reactivity in Wakefulness.
Sleep July 22, 2026 Enyu Lin, Simone Grassini, Henry Railo et al.
Sleep plays an important role in affective processing and affect regulation during wakefulness. Dreaming-the subjective experiences occurring during sleep-has been suggested to reflect, or even contribute to, waking affect regulation. However, the role of dream affect in waking affect regulation has rarely been studied directly. Here, we investigated how dream affect relates to waking affect...