Nightmare disorder is characterized by dysfunctional emotion regulation and poor subjective sleep quality reflected in pathophysiological features such as abnormal arousal processes and sympathetic influences. Dysfunctional parasympathetic regulation, especially before and during rapid eye movement (REM) phases, is assumed to alter heart rate (HR) and its variability (HRV) of frequent nightmare...
Study objectives: This pilot study determined whether transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for parasomnias (CBTp) reduces parasomnia and activity levels during sleep in a sample of adult sleep clinic outpatients. A secondary objective was to assess whether treatment produces improvements in daytime fatigue/sleepiness, perceived cognition, mood, and depression/anxiety/stress, as well as...
abstract:This article examines a much-underrated aspect in the Holmesian canon: dreams and the potential for dream-rehearsals by virtue of the brain's "dream drugstore" faculty. Frequently described as "dreamy-eyed" or the "dreamer" of Baker Street, Holmes possesses powers of visiting scenes of crime "in spirit," exhibiting powers of oneirogenesis. This unorthodox criminological strategy marks...
BACKGROUND Nightmares are common in patients with psychiatric disorders. Patients with psychiatric disorders often experience depressive symptoms. Nightmares have been associated with depressive symptoms among adolescents. Previous studies have explored the mediating role of nightmare distress in the relationship between frequent nightmares and depressive symptoms in the general adolescent...
Both lucid dreaming and mindfulness appear to involve metacognition and awareness, or “awareness of awareness” in which one is aware and consciously attends to present experiences. Despite evidence for the continuity hypothesis of dreaming (which posits dream content is connected and related to the concerns and thoughts in waking life), little research has explored a relationship between lucid...
Introduction Nightmare proneness, a trait-like disposition to experience frequent nightmares, has been strongly related to psychological distress. The aim of the present study was to examine if cardiac symptoms and hypothetically-related variables, nightmares, and perceived physical health could be used to differentiate nightmare proneness and psychological distress. Materials and Methods In...
The creative performance, as well as other exclusively human capabilities will be the qualities that the future workers must have, due to what has been called the fourth industrial revolution. Therefore, teachers have the obligation to investigate and innovate on new techniques and implement methodologies that promote these skills. The Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology has shown great...
Dreams are still an enigma of human cognition, studied extensively in psychoanalysis and neuroscience. According to the Freudian dream theory and Solms' modifications of the unconscious derived from it, the fundamental task of meeting our emotional needs is guided by the principle of homeostasis. Our innate value system generates conscious feelings of pleasure and unpleasure, resulting in the...
The dream-reports of even the most unimaginative people are often fantastic, gripping narratives of a kind that such people would simply be unable to create were they attempting to write fiction. Sometimes dreams are not of the fantastic, loose, rambling kind but are highly condensed, coherent syntheses of many of the dreamer’s beliefs, fears, anxieties, and memories. Dreams can supply...
Objective. People experience lucid dreaming (LD) with different emotions and perceptions that can have psychophysiological consequences upon waking. To study the placebo without a deception effect, we tested how psychoactive drug intake during LDs affects perceptions in dreams and after waking.Method. Through two online experiments, we instructed volunteers to consume alcohol (N = 104) and...
Evolutionary theories suggest that dreams function as a world simulator of events that maximizes our ability to surmount social and threat-related challenges critical to survivorship and reproduction. Here, in contrast to the incorporation continuity hypothesis, we test the (1) social bias hypothesis, which states that dreams will overrepresent positive social interactions relative to waking...
The chapter begins with the text of a dream told to us as part of an online event for the International Society for the Study of Surrealism, a painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: This chapter gives examples of the use of dreams in linear narrative films, sometimes as plot devices, and then compares this with films that are oneiric, that is, films that have...
Study objectives: Persistent nightmares are common among individuals exposed to trauma and are especially prevalent among veterans. While behavioral and pharmacological interventions are available, they have demonstrated limited efficacy. Innovations in wearable technology provide a potential avenue to match or exceed these existing treatments by directly targeting nightmare physiology....
The chapter begins with the text of a dream with three related but very separate scenes, and a painting of the dream and a commentary on its composition. Main content: This chapter describes how dreams occur in all stages of sleep, but are recalled more often from REM than from NREM sleep. Furthermore, REM dream reports (measured by the number of words) on average are longer than NREM dream...
Neurology. Clinical practiceFebruary 1, 2023Maria Jose Abenza-Abildúa, Vanesa Lores-Gutiérrez, Guadalupe Gutiérrez-Cueto et al.
Nightmare disorder consists of the appearance of unpleasant and vivid, repeated dreams, with a situation of discomfort and anguish on awakening. Its prevalence is 3%-4% in adults. They do not associate muscle mobilization during this phase. REM sleep behavior disorder (RSBD) is a rare parasomnia (0.5% of people older than 60 years of age), characterized by the presence of unpleasant dreams,...
The study explored the differences in nightmare, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and cognitive deficits among adolescents and the chain mediating effects of insomnia, depression, and anxiety on the relationship between nightmares and cognitive deficits in adolescents. An online survey was used to collect demographic data of 6014 adolescents and assess nightmare, insomnia, depression, anxiety,...
Epic dreaming is a type of disturbed dreaming described as experiencing daytime fatigue after dreaming all night. To investigate whether such phenomena is simply a vivid dream or more of a disturbing nightmare, we are going to look at the physiological and psychological aspect of epic dreaming patients along the behaviors of nightmares. By comparison, we see a similarity of inclination towards...
Medical alphabetJanuary 11, 2023R. K. Kostin, I. A. Rozhnov, E. A. Korabelnikova et al.1 citation
Aim. To assess the impact of nightmarish dreams on various aspects of medical students' lives. Materials and methods. A sociological survey was conducted among students of 1–6 courses of five medical universities using an online form which included the following questionnaires: the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Hamburg Nightmare Questionnaire, the Insomnia Severity Scale, the Hospital...
The manuscript by Wong et al. in this issue [1] reports on nightmare-related findings at baseline and 1-year follow-up in a large scale, epidemiological mental health study of youth in Hong Kong from May 2019 to March 2022. Using a frequency of one or more nightmares per week based on the “having bad dreams” (translates to “nightmares” in Chinese) question from the Pittsburgh sleep quality...
This research purpose aims to demonstrate the individuation process of Alan Wake through the archetypes by finishing the last page of “Departure” manuscript. The research uses interpretative qualitative method in extending the findings. Using interpretation analysis can depict phenomenon of video game from the act, figures, sources (game items; weapons, flashlight, manuscript, etc.), situation,...