Dreaming
June 1, 2002
Ross Levin, Gary Fireman
26 citations
The present study investigated the relationship between both state and global measures of phenomenal qualities of nightmare experience and nightmare prevalence as measured prospectively by dream logs. Sixty three frequent nightmare individuals and 53 controls completed a retrospective measure of their sleep and dreaming processes and kept a dreaming and nightmare log for 21 consecutive nights....
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
March 1, 2002
Stanley L. Brodsky, Nancy L. Ryba
It has often been asserted that the drawing of one's dreams will aid in producing more vivid, more interpretable, and clearer dream content. However, the literature on using dream drawings to enhance interpretation and meaningfulness has been limited to descriptive and narrative accounts. This study compared the recorded dreams of 69 participants who were asked to either write, write then draw,...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2002
David Kahn, Edward F Pace-Schott, J Allan Hobson
This study investigated the relationship between dream emotion and dream character identification. Thirty-five subjects provided 320 dream reports and answers to questions on characters that appeared in their dreams. We found that emotions are almost always evoked by our dream characters and that they are often used as a basis for identifying them. We found that affection and joy were commonly...
Sleep
2002
Ross Levin, Gary Fireman
287 citations
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The relationship between nightmare prevalence, nightmare distress, and self-reported psychological disturbance was assessed prospectively. DESIGN: Differences in self-reported psychological disturbance as a function of nightmare prevalence was investigated by MANCOVA's with non-nightmare dreams as the covariate as well as Pearson correlations. The relative contribution of...
Journal of Sleep Research
December 1, 2001
Carlo Cipolli, R Bolzani, Giovanni Tuozzi et al.
The ability to process recently acquired knowledge is clearly maintained during sleep. Here we assess whether and how far the sleeper controls this processing (in a non-volitional and non-conscious manner). We posit that during sleep, the cognitive concerns of previous waking may guide access to, and processing of, items of declarative knowledge with which those concerns are associated. In a...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
October 1, 2001
Ross Levin, Gary Fireman
The present study prospectively investigated the relationship between nightmare prevalence, nightmare distress, and waking imaginative involvement. One hundred and sixteen individuals completed self-report indices of fantasy proneness, psychological absorption, and daydreaming as well as a sleep and dreaming questionnaire and a nightmare distress measure. Participants then kept a dreaming and...
Psychiatric News
September 21, 2001
Joan Arehart-Treichel
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Clinical & Research NewsFull Access'Imagery Rehearsal' Can Control PTSD-Related NightmaresJoan Arehart-TreichelJoan Arehart-TreichelPublished Online:21 Sep 2001https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.36.18.0023In 1994, a Wyoming native—"Tom"—was hiking in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park when an 800-pound grizzly bear tackled him and...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
August 1, 2001
Michael Schredl, Golo Kronenberg, Patrick Nonnell et al.
46 citations
Schredl, Michael Ph.D.; Kronenberg, Golo M.D.; Nonnell, Patrick; Heuser, Isabella M.D. Author Information
Journal of Adolescent Health
August 1, 2001
Barry Krakow, D Sandoval, R Schrader et al.
To evaluate imagery rehearsal therapy for the treatment of chronic nightmares in a sample of adolescent girls. Adolescent girls ranging in age from 13 to 18 years were recruited from the Wyoming Girls School in Sheridan, Wyoming (treatment group, n = 9; control group, n = 10). These girls had previously suffered a high prevalence of unwanted sexual experiences in childhood and adolescence, and...
JAMA
August 1, 2001
Barry Krakow, Michael Hollifield, L Johnston et al.
Chronic nightmares occur frequently in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but are not usually a primary target of treatment. To determine if treating chronic nightmares with imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) reduces the frequency of disturbing dreams, improves sleep quality, and decreases PTSD symptom severity. Randomized controlled trial conducted from 1995 to 1999 among 168...