Sleep Science
March 1, 2025
William E. Kelly, Richard C. Zamora, Soeun Park
Abstract Introduction Previous research found that nightmare proneness, a purported disposition to experience frequent nightmares, accounted for nightmare frequency independent of neuroticism and distress. However, these findings may have been the result of reduced reliability and content validity of the measures. The current study aimed to replicate these findings using established, lengthier...
Sleep Science
January 24, 2024
Horacio Balam Álvarez-García, Ulises Jiménez Correa
In adults, nightmare disorder is related to sleep deprivation, drug consumption or abuse, or other comorbid sleep disorders such as insomnia or insufficient sleep syndrome. Behavioral treatment has solid scientific evidence in disorders such as insomnia and, more recently, parasomnias. The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical effectiveness of a Brief Behavioral Telemedicine...
Sleep Science
June 17, 2022
Ravindra P. Nagendra, Talakad N. Sathyaprabha, Bindu M Kutty
Objectives: Meditation practices positively influence the neural, hormonal and autonomic systems. We have demonstrated that long-term practice of mindfulness meditation increases N3 and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stages and bring efficient autonomic modulation during sleep. In the present study, the probable humoral correlation that could bring about these changes is evaluated. Material and...
Sleep Science
June 17, 2022
Michael Raduga
Objective: Many people have dreams nightly and some maintain consciousness during dreams. Such dreams are referred to as lucid dreams (LD). During dreams, our speech correlates with facial muscle activity, which is hard to decode, but LD could solve this problem. The primary hypothesis of this study was that the facial muscles electric activity during LD corresponds to specific sounds....
Sleep Science
September 1, 2011
Fernando Morgadinho Santos Coelho, Alexander Moszczynski, Marc Narayansingh et al.
ABSTRACT Sexual behavior can be associated with several stages of sleep, including both non-rapid eye movement and rapid eye movement stages of sleep. In narcoleptic patients, orgasmic cataplexy, or orgasmolepsy, and sexual hypnagogic hallucinations can be present. Although the association between narcolepsy and sexual behaviors has already been described, few reports describe the embarrassing...
Sleep Science
June 1, 2009
C Timo‐Iaria, Angela C. Valle
Dreaming has been a subject of cogitation since remote Antiquity. In ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle discussed about the meaning of dreams, concluding that the prevailing mistic and mythic concepts about them were incorrect. Instead, they thought that dreams were not provoked by spirits, ghosts or gods, which took over the mind to express themselves through dreaming. Aristotle[ 1...