Presleep mood and dream recall.
D B Cohen
Journal of Abnormal Psychology February 1, 1974 DOI: 10.1037/h0036108 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
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| Population | Participants who recorded dream recall and presleep mood at home, including frequent and infrequent dream recallers and subjects differing in overall self-confidence |
| Topics | Dreaming |
| Keywords | Humans Emotions Self concept Dreams Memory Psychoanalytic theory Female Repression, psychology |
| Key points | Dream recall at home was more likely following relatively negative presleep mood ratings, particularly among infrequent dream recallers. The authors report that repression hypotheses of dream recall were not supported, and propose that presleep mood influences dream salience and recallability. Negative presleep mood was associated with more unpleasant dreams, especially for those with lower self-confidence. |
Abstract
Results showed that dream recall at home was more likely to occur on mornings preceded by presleep mood ratings that were relatively negative and that this was particularly true for infrequent dream recallers. The results failed to support repression hypotheses of dream recall that derive from the "afterexpulsion " concept of Freud. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that presleep mood affects the salience (vividness, emotionality, etc.), and thus the recallability, of the dream experience. In addition, negative presleep mood was associated with more unpleasant dreams (characterized by threat, helplessness, and vulnerability), especially for subjects reporting lower overall self-confidence. Psychologists have become increasingly interested in waking imagery, recalled dreams, and their possible relationship to personality and adaptation (Holt, 1964; Singer & Singer, 1972). Recent investigations provide some empirical support for the following set of working assumptions that guided the present study: (a) Dreaming expresses and contributes to psychological adaptation (Breger,
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