PLoS One
February 25, 2025
Jiaxi Wang, Haote Fu, Xiaoling Feng et al.
In this study, we explored whether nightmare distress mediated the correlation between autobiographical memory specificity and depression. 112 participants provided their most recent dreams that happened within one month, and finished some scales that measured depression, autobiographical memory specificity, and nightmare distress. In line with our hypothesis, nightmare distress was the...
Frontiers in Psychology
December 14, 2022
Jiaxi Wang, Bin Song, Xiaoling Feng et al.
Introduction: Dreaming is the subjective experience during sleep. A spontaneous thought is a thought that comes to one's mind involuntarily. This study investigated whether presleep focusing on a positive spontaneous thought enhanced the possibility of dreaming of the thought. Methods: Ninety-seven participants were quasi-randomly assigned to an expression condition (focus on an spontaneous...
Frontiers in Psychology
June 4, 2021
Jiaxi Wang, JingYu He, Ting Bin et al.
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Frontiers in Psychology
August 12, 2020
Chuanwen Zhao, Jiaxi Wang, Xiaoling Feng et al.
7 citations
This study aimed to explore relationships between personality type variables and dream structure variables. In the questionnaire experiment (N=410), we investigated associations between different personality variables in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire (MBTI) and various aspects of dreams in the Mannheim Dream questionnaire (MADRE). The MBTI has four dimensions. In the...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 3, 2020
Jiaxi Wang, JingYu He, Ting Bin et al.
In this study, participants recorded their waking events (Personal significant events, PSEs/Major concerns, MCs) and dream reports for 7 days. These events and dreams were paired by the same day (216 PSEs-dreams pairs and 215 MCs-dreams pairs). Then participants were instructed to both find similar features (characters, objects, locations, actions, emotions, and themes) of their events-dreams...
Frontiers in Psychology
2019
Chunyun Yu, Heyong Shen
17 citations
Dreams are usually characterized by primary consciousness, bizarreness and cognitive deficits, lacking metacognition. However, lucid dreaming (LD) is a type of consciousness state during which the dreamer is aware of the fact that he or she is dreaming, without leaving the sleeping state. Brain research has found that LD shares some common neural mechanisms with metacognition such as...
Dreaming
September 1, 2018
Daohua Zhang, Qiong Li, Heyong Shen et al.
The present study is a comparison of dream content between monks and nonreligious respondents, aiming to understand the unconscious of monks, and to further explore the influence of religion on our human mind. The authors interviewed participants to collect dreams and then explored similarities and differences through content analysis. A total of 127 participants reported their dreams, 65 monks...