Imagination, Cognition and Personality
October 1, 1996
Michael Schredl, Alyaa Montasser
64 citations
The aim of the present article is to carefully review the research carried out hitherto regarding factors influencing dream recall. With respect to the hypotheses explaining the variation in dream recall frequency (DRF) and a model of the dream recall process, the empirical data has been divided into two groups, trait factors and state factors. In the first part of the article the studies on...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1, 1996
A Lequerica
The psychophysiological properties of the lucid dream state were examined to evaluate the relationship between lucid and nonlucid dreaming, emphasizing the fact that the components of self-reflectiveness and other cognitive features commonly associated with lucid dreams occur in all dreams to various extents. Although lucid dreams are clearly toward one end of the continuum, they still share...
Sleep
April 1996
C C Hong, Y Jin, S G Potkin et al.
In an intensive single-subject design, electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha power and receptive and expressive language in dreaming were studied in 12 dreams during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep on 12 separate nights. Bilateral EEG was recorded continuously from 21 sites and digitized. We used the Fast Fourier transformation (FFT) for power spectral analysis to measure EEG power in the alpha...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
April 1, 1996
Barry Krakow, Robert Kellner, Dorothy Pathak et al.
An eighteen month follow-up of chronic nightmare sufferers treated with imagery rehearsal, a cognitive-behavioral method, demonstrated significant and clinically meaningful decreases in nightmare frequency. Sixty-eight percent of subjects decreased their nightmares below criteria for a “Chronic Nightmare Disorder”. Significant improvement was also noted for sleep quality and daytime anxiety....
Dreaming
March 1, 1996
Leonard M. Giambra, Rex E. Jung, Alicia Grodsky
62 citations
Dream recall was measured retrospectively with the Night Dreaming Scale of the Imaginal Processes Inventory. Evidence supports a high degree of correspondence among methods which assess dreaming frequency. A cross-sectional sample (17-92 years old, n = 2328) found fewer dreams recalled with increasing age. Women recalled more dreams and showed a less rapid decrease in frequency than men....
Der Anaesthesist
February 1996
H Käsmacher, M Petermeyer, C Decker
Since the introduction of propofol into clinical practice, dreaming during general anaesthesia has been frequently reported with this drug. We investigated the incidence and character of these dreams with regard to distinction from intraoperative awareness and in comparison with habitual dreams or dreams during general anaesthesia with enflurane. A total of 230 patients (ASA I-II) undergoing...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
October 1, 1995
James A. Prescott, C. Gary Pettigrew
In a survey of 17 middle-school students, search for control over situations in waking life was positively correlated with frequency of lucid dreaming.
Behaviour Research and Therapy
September 1, 1995
Fifty-eight chronic nightmare sufferers were randomly assigned to two groups: treatment (n = 39) and wait-list control (n = 19). Treated Ss were taught a cognitive-behavioral technique called imagery rehearsal in which they learned in a waking state to change a nightmare and then to visualize the new set of images. Subjects were assessed pre-treatment and 3 months followup for nightmare...
Consciousness and Cognition
September 1, 1995
J Antrobus, T Kondo, R Reinsel et al.
Since the discovery that the characteristics of dreaming sleep are far stronger in Stage 1 rapid eye movement (REM) sleep than in any other biological state, investigators have attempted to determine the relative responsibility of the tonic versus the phasic properties of REM sleep for the different characteristics of dreaming--features such as the amount of information in the dream report, the...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1, 1995
Michael Schredl, S Frauscher, A Shendi
The present study estimated correlations for 50 subjects among frequency of dream recall, length of dream report, and visual memory. Whereas the results confirmed the previously found relationship between frequency of dream recall and visual memory, influence of visual memory on length of dream report was not found.