heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Arthur Funkhouser, Michael Schredl
5 citations
A question about déjà rêve (already dreamt, a form of déjà experience) was included in a large "sleep, dreams, and personality" survey of 444 (mainly psychology) students at three German universities. The incidence of déjà rêve was high (95.2%) and, like most other déjà experiences, was negatively correlated with age. In addition to dream recall frequency, the most influential personality...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 1, 2001
Michael Schredl, Arthur Funkhouser, Claude M. Cornu et al.
The coefficients of internal consistency and retest reliability had been rarely investigated within the methodology of dream content analysis. Analyzing a dream series of elderly, healthy persons obtained from weekly telephone interviews, the internal consistency of a series of 20 dreams and retests after 4 or 22 weeks, respectively, had been computed. The findings indicate that dream recall...
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
October 2000
Arthur Funkhouser, Claude M. Cornu, H P Hirsbrunner et al.
While there have been several studies about dreams and dreaming among the elderly, there does not seem to have been any study of the effects of regular dream-telling (without interpretation). Listening to dreams could become a regular part of caring for the elderly and infirm. The effects of regular dream-telling in mentally healthy elderly clinical research volunteers were measured on several...
Aging & Mental Health
February 1, 1999
Arthur Funkhouser, Hans-Peter Hirsbrunner, Claude M. Cornu et al.
29 citations
This paper reviews past and current research into the dreams and dreaming of people over 65 years of age. Recent studies have shown, for example, that frequency of dream recall declines with age in both men and women, but that the main decrease occurs in early middle age and is thus unlikely to be connected with aging effects.The results of studies having to do with dream tone, active/passive...