The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
April 1, 2006
Antonio Zadra, Mathieu Pilon, Don C Donderi
Nightmares are usually defined as frightening dreams that awaken the sleeper. This study uses the waking criterion to distinguish between nightmares and bad dreams and investigated the variety and intensity of emotions reported in each form of disturbing dream. Ninety participants recorded their dreams for 4 consecutive weeks and, for each dream recalled, noted the emotions present and their...
Dreaming
March 1, 2006
Timo Paulsson, Adrian G. Parker
20 citations
Previous research in the field of lucid dreams has contained descriptions of several techniques for inducing lucid dreams, but there have been only a limited number of empirical studies designed to evaluate the effectiveness of these techniques. The present study investigated the effects of a two week training program using the reflectionintention technique which is specifically designed to...
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
February 2, 2006
Biza Stenfert Kroese, Gail Thomas
63 citations
Background Imagery rehearsal therapy for people who suffer from recurring nightmares has been shown to be a successful intervention. Very little research has been conducted on post‐traumatic nightmare sufferers with learning disabilities. Method This paper presents two case studies to illustrate the application of an adapted form of imagery rehearsal therapy to adults with learning...
Sleep Medicine Reviews
February 1, 2006
Victor I. Spoormaker, Michael Schredl, Jan Van den Bout
The DSM-IV-TR definition of nightmares-extremely frightening dreams from which the person wakes up directly-is unnecessarily narrow. Other emotions (anger, grief) have also been reported in nightmares, and direct awakening from a bad dream seems to be unrelated to increased distress. In addition, assessment of nightmares is problematic. Polysomnographic recordings have an ameliorating effect on...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
February 1, 2006
Michael Schredl, Stephany Fulda, Iris Reinhard
There is ongoing debate on whether the full moon is associated with sleep and dreaming. The analysis of diaries kept by the participants ( N = 196) over 28 to 111 nights showed no association of a full moon and dream recall. Psychological factors might explain why some persons associate a full moon with increased dream recall.
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
January 15, 2006
J Allan Hobson
AbstractAdvances in, and links between, neurobiology and psychology as applied in the study of sleep and dreaming compared to the waking state are increasingly revealing significant evidence for the brain basis of consciousness.
Behavioral Sleep Medicine
2006
Barry Krakow, Antonio Zadra
Problems with nightmares are reported by a sizable proportion of individuals with a history of trauma and by approximately 5% to 8% of the general population. Chronic nightmares may represent a primary sleep disorder rather than a symptom of a psychiatric disorder, and direct targeting of nightmares is a feasible clinical approach to the problem. Of the treatments proposed, imagery rehearsal...
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
2006
Silvana Grandi, Stefania Fabbri, Naike Panattoni et al.
In open and randomized controlled trials self-exposure therapy reduced the frequency of nightmares but follow-up ceased at 7 months post-entry. Ten adults who attended an outpatient clinic and had DSM-IV nightmare disorder were put on a 3-month waiting-list. After 3 months they were given a self-exposure manual and were asked to follow its instructions for 4 weeks and were then followed up for...
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
2006
Victor I. Spoormaker, Jan Van den Bout
155 citations
BACKGROUND: The goal of this pilot study was to evaluate the effects of the cognitive-restructuring technique 'lucid dreaming treatment' (LDT) on chronic nightmares. Becoming lucid (realizing that one is dreaming) during a nightmare allows one to alter the nightmare storyline during the nightmare itself. METHODS: After having filled out a sleep and a posttraumatic stress disorder questionnaire,...
Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie
December 7, 2005
Matthias Bischof, Philipp O. Valko, Claudio L. Bassetti
5 citations
Dreaming is the mental activity of REM (and less commonly NREM) sleep.It is characterised by a perception of self, inner and outer world that is distinct from that of wakefulness.Neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies suggest that dreaming arises from activation of brainstem, thalamo-limbic and medial temporo-occipital areas and inactivation of dorsolateral prefrontal areas.Dream...