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Testing the Empathy Theory of Dreaming: The Relationships Between Dream Sharing and Trait and State Empathy.

Frontiers in Psychology June 20, 2019 Mark Blagrove, Sioned Hale, Julia Lockheart et al.

In general, dreams are a novel but realistic simulation of waking social life, with a mixture of characters, motivations, scenarios, and positive and negative emotions. We propose that the sharing of dreams has an empathic effect on the dreamer and on significant others who hear and engage with the telling of the dream. Study 1 tests three correlations that are predicted by the theory of dream...