Dream recall frequency and psychosomatics.
Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis May 11, 2022 DOI: 10.23750/abm.v93i2.11218 (opens in new tab) via PubMed
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractAbout 80% of patients woken during REM sleep can recall their dreams, but young adults in clinical practice remember dreams only once or twice a week. The authors propose hypotheses explaining why people with psychosomatic disorders appear to recall dreams less often than healthy individuals, suggesting that factors such as personality, creativity, mental state, cognitive functions, and somatic symptoms influence dream recall.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Key finding | Proposes that patients with psychosomatic disorders remember dreams less frequently than healthy individuals. |
Abstract
The ability to remember dreams can depend on a wide range of factors such as personality, creativity, mental state, cognitive functions as well as somatic symptoms. In the course of their studies, medical researchers have demonstrated that about 80% patients, woken up at their Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep phase, can remember their own dreams, whereas, in clinical practice, young adults can remember their dreams on their awakenings only once or twice a week. Let us now come to the point: in this study we suggest some hypotheses that could explain the reason why patients suffering from psychosomatic disorders seem to remember dreams much less frequently than healthy individuals.