Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1983
Paul Tholey
This experiment illustrates that systematic observations in lucid dreams can be used to test hypotheses concerning the relation between dream content and eye movements. The observations were carried out by 5 students who had learned to induce lucid dreams by using the reflection technique developed by the author. Several hypotheses concerning the relation in question could be rejected.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1982
Robert D. Ogilvie, Harry T. Hunt, Paul D. Tyson et al.
61 citations
10 good dream recallers spent 2 nights in the sleep lab during which they were awakened 4 times per night from REM sleep, twice during their highest alpha activity in REM, and twice during low REM alpha. 5 were given alpha feedback training prior to sleep onset. Arousals from high alpha REM sleep yielded significantly higher lucidity ratings. Alpha feedback had no effect upon lucidity or REM...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
April 1982
H T Hunt
A classification-rating system for formal anomalies in dream experience focuses on the contribution a cognitive psychology of dream bizarreness might make to the question of whether dreaming is a form of thinking. In Part I, two traditional issues in the psychology of dreams--dreaming as "hallucination" and dreaming as symbolic thought--are connected via phenomenological method and cognitive...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1981
Stephen P. La Berge, Lynn E. Nagel, William C. Dement et al.
237 citations
SUMMARY: The occurrence of lucid dreaming (dreaming while being conscious that one is dreaming) has been verified for 5 selected subjects who signaled that they knew they were dreaming while continuing to dream during unequivocal REM sleep. The signals consisted of particular dream actions having observable concomitants and were performed in accordance with pre-sleep agreement. The ability of...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
February 1, 1981
Timothy J. Hoelscher, Eric Klinger, Steven G. Barta
90 citations
The hypothesis that cues related to subjects ' current concerns can control attentional and cognitive processes during sleeping and dreaming was examined by presenting concern- and nonconcern-related verbal stimuli to seven male subjects during sleep Stages 2 and REM. The taped dream reports were judged for stimulus incorporation by two independent raters. The results revealed that concern...
Journal of personality assessment
February 1, 1981
S P Urbina
Reviews measurement approaches applied to dream reports and proposes some methodological cautions that may result in more effective utilization of the dream report in research and assessment. Standardization of dream collection techniques and controls for variability in the length of dream reports are suggested. Further investigation of the intraindividual consistency of dream report measures...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1980
Stephen P. La Berge
122 citations
The author was the subject in an investigation of the feasibility of learning to dream lucidly, i.e., while knowing that one is dreaming. During the 3-yr. study, the subject recorded a total of 389 lucid dreams and developed a mnemonic technique for the voluntary induction of lucid dreams (MILD). Without using any induction procedure, the subject reported less than 1 lucid dream per month....
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1980
D S Jones, R E Chew, N A Allman et al.
Using lateral eye-movements, the present study examined the hypothesis ,that dream recall is associated with selective activation of the right hemisphere. This hypothesis is derived from the observation that the EEG indicates a notable tendency for activation of the right hemisphere during such recall (1). No supposition is made as to the role of this hemisphere in dreaming itself (5). While...
Annals of Neurology
May 1, 1980
John Stirling Meyer, Fumihiko Sakai, Ismet Karacan et al.
81 citations
Regional cerebral flow after inhalation of xenon 133 as well as polysomnography were recorded during daytime sleep and the awake state in patients with narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Brainstem-cerebellar (BSC) gray matter blood flow (Fg) values in the awake state were reduced below normal (p less than 0.05) in both narcolepsy and sleep apnea; in sleep apnea, bihemispheric Fg values were also...
1979
April Newlin
o n a li t y , dream c o n te n t, and memory o f s u b je c ts c l a s s i f i e d as low and high r e c a l l e r s of dreams were te s t e d on the b a sis of re p re s s io n th e o ry of dream r e c a l l .F i f t y undergraduate c o lle g e s tu d e n ts were p laced in to low and high r e c a l l groups using responses to a q u e s tio n n a ire and 14 day dream d ia ry .Since numerous v...