Mindfulness and dream quality: the inverse relationship between mindfulness and negative dream affect.

Study at a glance

Characteristics	Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Topics	Meditation
Key points	Argues that mindfulness is inversely related to negative dream affect, proposing that higher mindfulness may reduce the emotional negativity of dreams and thereby improve dream quality.

Other theoretical and historical papers on meditation, most cited first.

Study	Year	Design
Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition.	2004	Theoretical or philosophical paper
Mechanisms of mindfulness	2005	Theoretical or philosophical paper
How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective	2011	Theoretical or philosophical paper
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression	2006	Theoretical or philosophical paper
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness	2012	Theoretical or philosophical paper