Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
May 25, 2022
Maurizio Gorgoni, Serena Scarpelli, Valentina Alfonsi et al.
According to several influential models, dreams can be affected by state- and trait-like factors, sleep features, and diurnal experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic globally affected daily habits, emotional experiences, and sleep. Previous studies suggested an influence of collective traumatic events on dreaming. Starting from these premises, several studies assessed the effect of the pandemic on...
Sleep
May 25, 2022
Abstract: Introduction: Nightmares are associated with enormous suffering as well as a significant reduction in the quality of life of those affected. Various studies also show a direct correlation between the frequency of nightmares and suicidal tendencies. Nightmares are therefore diseases that must be taken very seriously. Currently, they are treated with costly therapy methods and sometimes...
Acta bio-medica
May 11, 2022
Diego Dal Sacco
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...
Consciousness and Cognition
May 1, 2022
Jonas Mathes, Reinhard Pietrowsky
Being the aggressor in dreams has been investigated relatively sparsely. On the one hand, these kinds of nightmares may represent continuity of aggression in waking-life, but on the other hand, being the aggressor in dreams may compensate failing (suppressed) aggression from waking-life. Two subtypes of aggressor nightmares should thus be distinguished: Those in which the dreamer is the primary...
Психолог
May 1, 2022
Sergei Vladimirovich Kukharenko
The subject of this study is to identify the connection between the experience obtained in lucid dreams and the experience of meditation. The object of the study is the experience that accompanies the state of awareness (Pali-sati). In the article, the author presents the results of a study aimed at establishing the connection between the experience obtained in lucid dreams and the experience...
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
April 26, 2022
Bill Angus
This chapter explores crossroads practice associated with traditions of gods and spirits both above and below, suggesting a tradition of a vertical axis allowing access to the underworld or the heavens, the realms of the divine and the dead. What lies beneath is of course both conceptual and archaeological, while what is above is both conceptual and cosmological. The crossroad goddess Hecate’s...
Military Medicine
April 26, 2022
E. Saguin, Lieutenant Jean Hulot, Jean-Baptiste Roseau et al.
INTRODUCTION In the military population, trauma-related nightmares (TRNs) are highly associated with deployments and combat-related events. Trauma-related nightmares are also correlated with severity, treatment resistance, and chronicity of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, to date, no specific measure of TRNs has been validated for use in the French language. This study aimed to...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
April 20, 2022
Michael Schredl, Judith Zumstein, Sven Baumann et al.
Previous research identified personality and neurophysiological traits that are associated with inter-individual differences in lucid dreaming frequency. The present study investigated the question as to whether sensory processing sensitivity is related to lucid dreaming. Overall, 1,807 persons (1,008 woman, 799 men) with a mean age of 47.75 ± 14.41 years completed the German High Sensitive...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
April 12, 2022
C. Mallet, Christina F. Chick, R. Maatoug et al.
Posttraumatic nightmares may exacerbate and perpetuate the daytime symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and might represent a therapeutic target. The therapeutic strategy of memory reconsolidation using the β-adrenergic receptor blocker propranolol associated with re-exposure psychotherapy is a promising treatment in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Previous studies have...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
April 11, 2022
Rachel M. Ranney, R. Gloria, Thomas J. Metzler et al.
Trauma-related nightmares are highly prevalent among veterans and are associated with higher-severity insomnia and posttraumatic stress disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (typically 6–8 sessions) has been shown to reduce trauma-related nightmares. Brief behavioral treatment for insomnia (BBTI, 4 sessions) has been found to be comparable to CBT-I in decreasing insomnia severity;...
Sleep
April 11, 2022
Benjamin Baird, Giulio Tononi, Stephen LaBerge
41 citations
(1) To critically test whether a previously reported increase in frontolateral 40 Hz power in lucid REM sleep, used to justify the claim that lucid dreaming is a "hybrid state" mixing sleep and wakefulness, is attributable to the saccadic spike potential (SP) artifact as a corollary of heightened REM density. (2) To replicate the finding that lucid dreams are associated with physiological...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
April 4, 2022
Marzia Albanese, Marianna Liotti, Lucia Cornacchia et al.
13 citations
Besides affecting 8% of the general population, nightmares are one of the most frequent symptoms of traumatized individuals. This can be a significant factor in the treatment of post-traumatic disorders; indeed, several studies demonstrated its strong predictive and prognostic value. Sleep disorders, nightmares in particular, could be very distressing for individuals and need targeted...
Sleep Medicine
April 1, 2022
Simone Cavallotti, Hans-Christian Stein, Mariantonietta Savarese et al.
Although aggressive dream content is considered a distinctive feature of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) and patients often report violent dreams during medical interviews, nonviolent behaviors (eating, drinking, urinating) and pleasant actions (e.g laughing, singing, dancing) or simply elemental, jerky limb movements are frequently observed during video-polysomnography. As a first-line...
March 29, 2022
Filip Radovic
1 citation
1 Modern dream-research has established that 90-99 percent of all dreams are completely non-lucid (that is, dreams where the dreamer is unaware of the dream as an illusory experience).See for instance, Antti Revonsuo, Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological
Ideas and Ideals
March 25, 2022
O. Tsvetkova
The article analyzes the development of the ideas of Ludwig Binswanger in the early works of Michel Foucault. The transformation of the basic concepts of Dasein-analysis by M. Foucault leads him to the idea of a human as a dreamer being, and a dream as a way of understanding the ontological foundations of human existence. The article reveals M. Foucault’s idea of the predominance of dreaming...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
March 3, 2022
Kheana Barbeau, Alexandre Lafrenière, Hanae Ben Massaoud et al.
Several studies have highlighted associations between adverse life events and the dysphoric character of dream experiences. This degree of continuity between waking-life and dream content seems partly attributed to the emotional and personal attachment linked to the incorporated waking experiences. Numerous changes in the processing of emotion-related stimuli are also reported across different...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
March 1, 2022
Kyle Possemato, Nina Silander, Nardos Bellete et al.
ABSTRACT: Although nightmares are known to predict the clinical course of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), research on the relationship between specific nightmare characteristics and PTSD severity is sparse. This study conducted a secondary analysis to explore how five nightmare characteristics are cross-sectionally related to PTSD severity in 76 combat veterans with PTSD and at-risk...
Clocks & Sleep
February 28, 2022
Angelina Birchler-Pedross, Sylvia Frey, Christian Cajochen et al.
Growing evidence indicates an association between reduced dream recall and depressive symptomatology. Here, we tested the prediction that reduced dream recall in individuals experiencing major depressive disorder (MDD) is due to alterations in circadian and sleep processes. Nine young healthy women (20−31 years) and eight young unmedicated women (20−31 years) diagnosed with MDD underwent a 40 h...
Research Square
February 25, 2022
Sofia Tzioridou, Martin Dresler, Kristian Sandberg et al.
preprint
A theoretical and empirical association between lucid dreaming and mindfulness, as well as lucid dreaming and nightmares has previously been observed; however, the relationship between nightmares and mindfulness has received surprisingly little attention. Here, we present the findings of two studies exploring the relation of nightmare frequency and distress with two components of mindfulness,...
medRxiv
February 19, 2022
S. Schwartz, Alice Clerget, Lampros Perogamvros
preprint
Background: Nightmare disorder (ND) is characterized by dreams with strong negative emotions occurring during rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep. ND is mainly treated by imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT), where the patients are asked to change the negative story line of their nightmare to a more positive one. Methods: We used targeted memory reactivation (TMR) during REM sleep to strengthen...