Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
February 18, 2010
Gail Q. Heather-Greener, Dana Comstock, Roby Joyce
Background: Clinical observations of a relationship between unpleasant dreams and migraine headaches have been reported previously. Methods: Due to the anecdotal quality of these case reports, this study empirically investigated the significance of this relationship. Dream content categories were selected corresponding to emotional factors associated with stress that trigger migraine headaches....
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
February 18, 2010
Antonio Zadra, Robert O. Pihl
120 citations
BACKGROUND: Lucid dreams occur when a person becomes aware that he or she is dreaming while still in the dream state. Previous reports on the use of lucid dreaming in the treatment of nightmares do not contain adequate baseline data, follow-up data, or both. METHODS: A treatment of recurrent nightmares incorporating progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, and lucid dream induction is...
Behavioural Brain Research
January 20, 2010
Luigi De Gennaro, Cristina Marzano, Fabio Moroni et al.
The study investigated the effect of one night of sleep deprivation on dream recall at morning awakening after recovery sleep. Forty healthy subjects were studied after adaptation (A) and baseline nights (B), and a recovery (R) night following 40 h of prolonged wakefulness. Parallel to the well-known recovery sleep changes (slow-wave sleep--SWS--rebound, decreased number of awakenings and of...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
January 14, 2010
Yuval Nir, Giulio Tononi
Dreams are a remarkable experiment in psychology and neuroscience, conducted every night in every sleeping person. They show that the human brain, disconnected from the environment, can generate an entire world of conscious experiences by itself. Content analysis and developmental studies have promoted understanding of dream phenomenology. In parallel, brain lesion studies, functional imaging...
Sleep
2010
Tore Nielsen, Tyna Paquette, Elizaveta Solomonova et al.
Study objectives: To assess whether dysfunctional autonomic regulation during REM sleep as indexed by heart rate variability (HRV) is a pathophysiological factor in frequent nightmares (NMs). Design: Monitoring with polysomnography (PSG) and electrocardiography (ECG) for 3 consecutive nights: Night 1 (N1), adaptation night; N2, administration of partial REM sleep deprivation; N3, recovery...
New Zealand Journal of Counselling
2010
Margaret M. Bowater
Recurring nightmares and post-trauma dreams are symptoms of real emotional pain or fear in some aspect of a dreamer's life and, like physical pain, are a call for healing. Careful attention to the structure and content of nightmares can contribute not only to understanding the causes, but also to effectively resolving them. This article presents a short summary of the main kinds of nightmares...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Arthur Funkhouser, Michael Schredl
5 citations
A question about déjà rêve (already dreamt, a form of déjà experience) was included in a large "sleep, dreams, and personality" survey of 444 (mainly psychology) students at three German universities. The incidence of déjà rêve was high (95.2%) and, like most other déjà experiences, was negatively correlated with age. In addition to dream recall frequency, the most influential personality...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2010
S Brink
1 citation
Dream theorists propose that dreams can balance conscious reality, and provide clues to unconscious processes complicating psychosomatic conditions. Little research has been done in the area of dreams and eating disorders. Based on data from a pilot study, and reports of eating-disordered women's dreams in the literature, the researcher hypothesised that eating-disordered women's dreams would...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Josefin Gavie, Antti Revonsuo
9 citations
future of lucid dreaming treatment : Commentary on The neurobiology of consciousness: Lucid dreaming wakes up by J. Allan Hobson
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Lynne Mason, David W. Orme-Johnson
14 citations
Researchers present evidence in support of a model of consciousness that includes lucid dreaming, witnessing/transcendental consciousness during dreaming and witnessing/transcendental consciousness during deep sleep. Due to the potential for confusion between subjective reports of lucid dreaming and witnessing dreaming or witnessing sleep the authors suggest researchers screen for them all. The...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Michael Schredl
3 citations
Varying research perspectives of the conceptual distinction between physiology and subjective experience, and the outside vs. inside perspective on dreaming will be discussed. Whereas the AIM model is helpful in describing the neurobiological differences between states of consciousness, research is needed to test whether specific features of the subjective experience like bizarreness or...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Don Kuiken
2 citations
Hobson (2009) proposes that lucid dreaming can become simultaneously and separately manifest against a background of non-lucid dreaming. The study of such state conjunctions, he suggests, sets the stage for a revolution in the neuroscience of consciousness. However, while lucid dreaming may indeed represent the emergence of what Edelman (2004) calls secondary consciousness amidst the primary...
European Psychiatry
2010
Sang Bok Lee
1 citation
Author intends to explicate dreaming brain and mind interactions by interpreting the neurophenomenology of dreaming brain as well as by analyzing the narratives of collected dream data. The author articulates acculturative dreaming mind by demonstrating two empirical research outcomes and suggests some analogical connections between dreaming brain and acculturative dreaming mind. The author...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Michael Schredl
51 citations
Dream content analysis is one of the basic methods applied in psychological dream research. The method can be easily applied but several pitfalls must be avoided in order to get valid results. The present article outlines how to construct new scales and the problems related to reliability and validity of content analytic scales. In addition, statistical issues prominent in the analysis of dream...
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
2010
Jaap Lancee, Victor I. Spoormaker, Jan Van den Bout
Several cognitive-behavioral techniques are effective in reducing nightmare frequency, but the therapeutic factor (e.g. cognitive restructuring, systematic desensitization) remains unclear. The aim of this study was to compare the nightmare treatments imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT), exposure, and recording (keeping a diary)--in a self-help format--with a waiting list. Participants were...
International review of neurobiology
2010
Mark Blagrove, Edward F Pace-Schott
Individuals differ greatly in their dream recall frequency, in their incidence of recalling types of dreams, such as nightmares, and in the content of their dreams. This chapter reviews work on the waking life correlates of these differences between people in their experience of dreaming and reviews some of the neurobiological correlates of these individual differences. The chapter concludes...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Michael Schredl, Daniel Erlacher
The International Journal of Dream Research is reaching its third year. The two issues of 2009 included 13 original papers and one invited essay. These articles covered a large variety of topics like lucid dreaming, dream recall, dream content, nightmares, dreams and psychopathology, and sleep quality. Submissions from all over the world including Canada, the United States of America, the...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Michael Schredl, Daniel Erlacher
25 citations
A considerable amount of studies have shown that sleep facilitates memory consolidation. For procedural memory, some findings support the association with REM sleep but the relationship between memory consolidation and dreaming has been scarcely studied. The present study did not find an effect of direct incorporations of the mirror tracing task into the dream on over-night improvement. On the...
heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
2010
Valdas Noreika, Jennifer Windt, Bigna Lenggenhager et al.
54 citations
The neural mechanisms underlying lucid dreaming have recently been investigated using brain imaging techniques such as electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, which produce insightful but merely correlative results. We propose that research on the neurophysiology of lucid dreaming, for instance concerning the exact relationship between the dorsolateral prefrontal...