Dreaming research published in 2025 (page 6)

Hypnagogia (Film)

South Asian Dance Intersections February 12, 2025 R.K. Bitesh And Tushar Nongthombam

In this film, the tenacity and breaking-point of the human body are investigated in practice and performance.

DOI: 10.55370/sadi.v3i1.1991

An Expert Consensus Statement for Implementing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares in Adults

Behavioral Sleep Medicine January 15, 2025 Kristi E. Pruiksma, Katherine E Miller, Joanne L. Davis et al. 16 citations

OBJECTIVES: Research supports cognitive behavioral therapies for nightmares (CBT-N) in adults. However, the nuances of implementation and unstandardized nomenclature for treatment components has created confusion in the field. To provide clarification, an expert consensus panel convened to review treatment manual components and to develop guidelines for the standardized implementation and...

DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2024.2437634 Statement logic Cognition Cognitive behavioral therapy Medline +1

Behind closed eyes: Understanding nightmares in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder - A systematic review.

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews January 14, 2025 Elisa Pellegrini, Serena Scarpelli, Valentina Alfonsi et al.

Introduction: Brain and sleep development in childhood shapes emotional and cognitive growth, including the ability to recall dreams. In line with the continuity hypothesis of dreaming, several findings suggest a link between clinical symptoms and nightmare frequency. Sleep disorders and anxiety are among the most frequently co-occurring conditions in children and adolescents with autism...

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106012 Dreaming Humans Dreams Sleep wake disorders +6

The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming.

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews January 14, 2025 Sofia Tzioridou, Teresa Campillo-Ferrer, Jorge Cañas-Martín et al. 5 citations

During most dreams, the dreamer does not realize that they are in a dream. In contrast, lucid dreaming allows to become aware of the current state of mind, often accompanied by considerable control over the ongoing dream episode. Lucid dreams can happen spontaneously or be induced through diverse behavioural, cognitive or technological strategies. Such induction techniques have spurred research...

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106011 Lucid dreaming Conscious dreaming Dream control Self-aware dreaming +19

Endorsement of: "Position paper for the treatment of nightmare disorder in adults: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine position paper" by the World Sleep Society.

Sleep Medicine January 2, 2025 F Provini, Birgit Högl, Alex Iranzo et al.

According to the ICSD-3TR, nightmare disorder is characterized by extended, extremely dysphoric, and well-remembered dreams that usually involve threats to survival, security, or physical integrity. The dream experience causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Nightmare disorder occurs in 2–6% of adults. Nightmares...

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2025.01.001

The clinical use of dream content in modern psychiatry

Australasian Psychiatry January 2, 2025 David Plevin, Virginia Munro 1 citation

ObjectiveThough there is a rich psychoanalytic tradition investigating the content and phenomenology of dreams, the clinical use of this has fallen into widespread disuse. We have undertaken a narrative review of the clinical significance and utility of dream content.FindingsDream content may have useful clinical and prognostic value in a number of neurological and psychiatric conditions,...

DOI: 10.1177/10398562241311926 Dream Content measure theory Psychotherapist

Effects of Fragmented REM Sleep on Emotional Consolidation in Individuals with Nightmare Disorder

American Journal of Student Research 2025 Desika Sundar

Nightmares, especially when frequent, can significantly disrupt the brain’s process of consolidating emotional memories during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. REM provides a unique neurobiological environment for integrating emotionally charged experiences, but nightmares fragment or shorten this stage, impairing emotional regulation and memory clarity. This literature review synthesizes...

DOI: 10.70251/hyjr2348.36177182 Nightmare Sleep system call Memory consolidation Eye movement +3

Verbal Magic In Contemporary Women’s Narratives About Nightmare Experiences In Estonia

Incantatio An International Journal on Charms Charmers and Charming 2025 Reet Hiiemäe

The focus of this article is on the contemporary use of verbal magic in situations interpreted in personal experience narratives as nightmare (old hag) attacks whereby the emphasis is on women’s perspective. First, the author gives a general overview of the outputs of protective verbal magic in contemporary Estonian material to situate more specific verbal magic used for warding off the...

DOI: 10.7592/incantatio2024_12_hiiemae Nightmare Narrative Magic telescope Gender studies +4

Lucid and Liminal Dreaming for Creative Writing: Interdisciplinary Investigations and Experiments

2025 Laura Roklicer

This research aims to enhance creative writing practices through dream-focused interventions. It combines the fields of psychology, aesthetics, and creative writing, and consists of four studies. Study 1 reanalysed Naomi Epel’s interviews with 26 writers, demonstrating how non-lucid dreams contribute to idea generation, creative problem-solving, and writing processes. Study 2 was an...

DOI: 10.23889/suthesis.69293 Full text Lucid dream Liminality Creative writing Visual arts +3

Lucid dream frequency and knowledge about lucid dreaming in adolescents

International Journal of Dream Research 2025

Lucid dreams are dreams in which the dreamer is realizing that she/he is dreaming while dreaming; the prevalence of lucid dreaming in adults is about 55%. Relatively little is known about lucid dreaming in adolescents. In the present survey, 226 adolescents (144 female, 82 male) with an age range from 10 to 20 yrs. The findings indicate that the percentage of adolescents who report having had...

DOI: 10.11588/ijodr.2025.2.112175 Full text

Distressing dreams in trauma survivors: using a sleep diary mobile app to reveal distressing dream characteristics and their relationship to symptoms and suicidal ideation in trauma-exposed adults

SLEEP Advances 2025 Anne Richards, Anthony Santistevan, Miles Kovnick et al. 8 citations

Study Objectives: Trauma nightmares are a core feature of PTSD, with potentially devastating implications for mental health outcomes. Treatments remain unsatisfactory and nightmares are poorly understood, both biologically and phenomenologically; measurement methods are limited. The aims of the current analyses were to (1) characterize distressing dreams in trauma survivors, (2) examine the...

DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpae099 Full text Nightmare Suicidal ideation Dream Clinical psychology +7

Are we just dreaming?

Research Directions Sleep Psychology 2025 Luís G. Pérez, Christopher J. Davis 1 citation

Abstract In this perspectives piece we examine the role of dreaming in memory consolidation, the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of nightmares and the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming for treating nightmares. Growing evidence suggests that dream content is shaped by both recent and remote memory sources, with non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep favoring the incorporation of recent...

DOI: 10.1017/slp.2025.10006 Full text Psychoanalysis Cognitive science

Haunted by Nightmares: Factors Associated with Nightmare Frequency and Experiences

Psychology 2025 David M. Compton 1 citation

Previous research has reported relationships between nightmares, including nightmare frequency and variables such as gender, cognition, sleep habits and quality, and beliefs about dreams and their meaning. Using a convenience sample of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at a small Evangelical Christian university, a number of potential factors were examined for their respective...

DOI: 10.4236/psych.2025.162015 Full text Nightmare Psychoanalysis Psychotherapist

Dreaming (and) Insanity: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass of Victorian Psychology

Victorian Literature and Culture 2025 Alessandro Cabiati

Comparing Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) with medical essays found in Carroll’s private library, this article argues that an examination of Alice’s Adventures “through the looking-glass” of Victorian psychology can generate new perspectives of the novel. It demonstrates that Carroll’s literary treatment of nonsense—illustrated by the characters’ linguistic and cognitive...

DOI: 10.1017/s106015032510020x Full text Adventure Insanity Identity music Representation politics +5

MYSTERY OF DREAMING: THREE KINDS OF DREAMS

Medical Research Archives 2025 A.M.L. Coenen

Dreaming has fascinated mankind since antiquity. In most Christian cultures people believe that dreams bring messages of supernatural beings such as gods, angels and demons to the sleeper. Dreams contain often hidden messages, warning the sleeper for danger, predicting the future, clarifying situations, or rewarding or punishing the sleeping person. Many religious people assume that Gods preach...

DOI: 10.18103/mra.v13i8.6757 Cognitive science Psychoanalysis

Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing.

Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025 Jasmine Walter, Thomas Andrillon, Jennifer Windt

Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core features of the healthy human mind. The purpose of this article is to consider the possibility that such fluctuations, including mind wandering and dreaming, which we refer to collectively as spontaneous thoughts and experiences (STE), may also be important...

DOI: 10.1093/nc/niaf022 Full text Dreaming Disorders of consciousness Local sleep Mind wandering +1

Lucid dreaming of a prior virtual-reality experience with ego-transcendent qualities: a proof-of-concept study.

Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025 Daniel J Morris, D Blaise Elliott, Susana Gabriela Torres-Platas et al. 3 citations

The immersive environments of virtual reality (VR) have potential to engender a vast range of experiences. Although participants recognize these experiences as artificial, the consequences can still be profound. Compared to VR, lucid dreams-characterized by awareness that one is dreaming-potentially allow for even more expansive explorations of immersive multisensory experience. Furthermore,...

DOI: 10.1093/nc/niaf017 Full text Embodiment Metacognition Self Sleep and dreaming

The Effects of Lucid Dreaming and Nightmares on Sleep Quality and Mental Health Outcomes.

Behavioral Sleep Medicine 2025 Michelle Carr, Westley Youngren, Martin Seehuus et al. 6 citations

This study aimed to investigate relationships between lucid dreaming and sleep and mental health outcomes within a representative sample of the general population. We also sought to examine how nightmares interact with the relationship between lucid dreaming, sleep, and mental health outcomes. Participants (N = 1332) completed measures of lucid dream frequency, nightmare frequency, anxiety and...

DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2024.2423297 Full text

Dreams and Nightmares in Early Pregnancy: A Comparative Study with a Control Group.

Nature and Science of Sleep 2025 Serena Scarpelli, Marta Spinoni, Maurizio Gorgoni et al. 1 citation

This study investigated dream characteristics in women during the first trimester of pregnancy compared to a group of non-pregnant women, aiming to identify variables associated with the observed differences. A sample of 100 pregnant women in their first trimester was compared to a control group of 100 age-matched non-pregnant women. Participants completed online questionnaires to assess dream...

DOI: 10.2147/NSS.S520737 Full text Depression Continuity hypothesis First trimester Gestation +2

[[Dreams]visions in Hoffmann's «fairy tales»: An experience of phenomenological description].

Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova 2025 B A Maksimov

The article highlights the stable characteristics of the world of dreams/visions, which is revealed to Hoffmann's visionaries in borderline, «twilight» states (half-asleep, intoxication, creative ecstasy, fever). Hoffmann sees in it not a closed, escapist «other-reality» but one of the two constitutive modes of perception, which has a common denotation and a common source with the «everyday»...

DOI: 10.17116/jnevro202512505233 Full text Nightmare Hoffmann Ambivalence Natural philosophy +10

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