Frequency of sports dreams and dreams about politics: An online study
Alina Noveski, Michael Schredl, Anja S. Göritz
FreiDok plus August 19, 2016 DOI: 10.11588/ijodr.2016.2.32670 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational survey Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 2,929 |
| Population | German-speaking adults who completed an online survey |
| Citations | 5 |
| Key findings | Sport dreams were reported by about 6% of participants and politics dreams by about 4%. Younger and male participants reported dreaming about sport and politics more often; higher education was positively correlated with politics dream frequency, and lucid dream recall frequency was positively correlated with sport dream frequency. The authors note retrospective estimates may be biased and call for dream-diary research. |
Abstract
There have been many recent studies that proofed the continuity hypothesis which suggests that dream content reflects waking life experiences. This study investigated factors that affect the frequency of sport and politics dreams. The online survey (N=2929 German speaking participants) showed a prevalence of about 6% sport dreams and 4% politics dreams. Results indicated that younger and male participants dreamed more often about sport and politics. Furthermore, higher education was positively correlated with a higher frequency of politics dreams. Moreover, a positive correlation between lucid dream recall frequency and sport dreams was found. Further research is needed to corroborate the present findings using dream diaries to minimize the bias of the retrospective estimates. In addition, the political and sport-related activities of the participants during the day should be assessed in order to correlate waking variables with frequencies of the dream topics directly. These studies might help to further understand the continuity between dream content and waking life experiences.