Sleep and Hypnosis
2020
2 citations
Previous research introduced the Nightmare Proneness Scale (NPS) as a measurement for nightmare proneness, the trait-like disposition to experience frequent nightmares. However, outside predicting nightmares, little is known about the structure of the scale or relationships of its facets with nightmares. The factor structure of the NPS and the scale's statistical independence from psychological...
Sleep and Hypnosis
February 21, 2018
Yong Lu
1 citation
The intriguing study of dreams related to mystical symbols has attracted not only such conventional fields as comparative religions and philosophy, but also psychoanalyses.In this report, first, the author briefly introduces, from the perspectives of Freud and Jung, the importance of energetic desire (libido), symbolism, and unconsciousness in interpreting dreams.Then, the author presents two...
Sleep and Hypnosis
August 14, 2017
William E. Kelly
8 citations
This article presents three studies aimed at the development and analysis of a proposed measure of nightmare proneness, the tendency to experience nightmares frequently.In Study 1 a sample of 205 university students was utilized to create the Nightmare Proneness Scale (NPS), consisting of personality and symptomatology items that significantly differentiated between individuals reporting...
Sleep and Hypnosis
August 14, 2017
Javed Ather Siddiqui, Shazia Farheen Qureshi, Abdul Khaliq Al Ghamdi
3 citations
Sleep paralysis (SP) is a benign, transient episode of immobility lasting a few seconds to a few minutes that can occur while falling asleep or on awakening.It is a condition of unknown etiology.During the episode, all the skeletal muscles are virtually 'paralyzed', resulting in an inability to move or speak but individual remains conscious.Because it occurs in a clear sensorium, the individual...
Sleep and Hypnosis
December 8, 2016
Calvin Kai-Ching Yu
2 citations
The Dream Motif Scale is a retrospective measure devised for assessing 15 predispositions that modulate the formation of dream narratives.It requires respondents to rate their lifetime frequencies with which they have dreamed about 100 themes.The Dream Motif Scale can be utilized not only as a psychometric measure but also as a classification system for analyzing themes in dream...
Sleep and Hypnosis
April 25, 2016
William E. Kelly
6 citations
This study examined whether college students reporting frequent nightmares would score differently on scales of the Ausburg Multidimensional Personality Instrument (AMPI; Kelly, 2012) relative to a comparison group.University students (N=373) completed the AMPI and a questionnaire to assess how frequently they experienced nightmares.The results indicated that individuals with frequent...
Sleep and Hypnosis
April 21, 2016
4 citations
This study investigated the extent to which negative emotions, personality traits, and obsessive-compulsive distress modulate the relationship between sleep problems and dream experiences.The sample consisted of 610 upper secondary school students, whose subjective intensity of dream experiences, thematic dream content, obsessivecompulsive distress, personality traits, defensiveness, emotional...
Sleep and Hypnosis
March 3, 2016
Calvin Kai-Ching Yu, Nigel S. Thompson
5 citations
This study aims to provide a preliminary overview of how specific sleep problems might have differential impacts on the phenomenological properties of dreaming. The sample contained 186 upper secondary school students, whose subjective intensity of dream experiences, thematic dream content, and sleep disturbances were assessed using the Dream Intensity Scale, Dream Motif Scale, and Sleep Habits...
Sleep and Hypnosis
March 3, 2016
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
The rare occurrence of the continuation and magnification of dream content, "reality," and "free-wheeling" dynamics (fleeting, poignant, meaningful, and meaningless), intersecting with and interspersed within awake reality and consciousness is here described, for lack of better terms or known conditions, as infra-dreaming, or infra-reality.This term is borrowed from a literary source,...