From living metaphors in impactful dreams to sublime disquietude and sublime enthrallment
Frontiers in Psychology August 11, 2026 Don Kuiken, Ming-Ni Lee
Introduction The continuing impact of spontaneously recalled dreams sometimes depends upon the same kind of unfolding semantic complexity that literary scholars attribute to poetic literary metaphors. Methods We present the results of two online studies of impactful dreams (i.e., nightmares, existential dreams, and transcendent dreams) that reinforce this account. Results In both Study 1 (N =...