Rapid eye movement frequency (REM density) and REM time in the first 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep were studied in relation to various measures of home dream recall in 41 normal young adult male Ss. The incidence of detailed dream reports was significantly positively related to REM density. On the other hand, vague and no-content dream reports were negligibly related to REM density. Similar...
Abstract There is no agreement among psychologists on sources and outcomes of the dreams in human brain during sleep. Secularist scholars of Freudian school of psychoanalysis claim that human dreams reflect their highly subconscious libido. Jungian school of kollective Unbewessustes disputes such extreme sexualized opinions and highlights the fact that rather large “collective unconscious” than...
A bstract : Recall from REM‐period awakenings was studied in the elderly. Twenty‐seven subjects (age range, 66 to 87 years) each slept one or two nights at the laboratory. From 166 REM awakenings there were 92 (55.4 per cent) instances of recall of dream content. This 55.4 per cent recall was significantly lower than the 87 per cent we previously found for the young adult. There was a tendency...
In a sample of 170 college students, no association was found between the frequency of nightmare occurrences and the fear of death or dying. The degree to which nightmares were remembered was also not associated with the fear of death.
Whereas earlier research had shown that Ss with lower auditory awakening thresholds (AATs) reported more dreams on awakenings from non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, this study of 4 Ss over several nights each indicated no relationship between Stage 2 NREM dreaming and within-subject, within-night variations in AAT. Subjectively “deep” Stage 2 sleep was associated with high AATs and with...
To the Editor:— I was interested in Dr. Schneck's excellent article on Henry Fuseli (207:725, 1969). "The Nightmare" is, of course, his best known work. Dr. Schneck has argued convincingly that "The Nightmare" represents the well-known clinical syndrome of sleep paralysis. Critics of Fuseli's work, eg, Sacheverell Sitwell, have also commented on the quality of "static horror" that they project....
ABSTRACTFive subjects had their nocturnal sleep monitored (EEG, EOG, submental EMG) for a total of 42 nights. A total of 196 awakenings to retrieve sleep mentation was distributed among three awakening categories: Non‐Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep before the EMG suppression heralding REM‐sleep onset; NREM sleep immediately following the EMG suppression heralding REM‐sleep onset; and early...
Frequency of dream recall ( f DR ) correlated with a creativity score on the Remote Associates Test (RAT). This correlation was lowered by anxiety which correlated positively with f DR but negatively with the RAT scores. Control for the biasing effect of anxiety was accomplished by a partial correlation which increased the f DR -RAT correlation.
The state of consciousness during recall of dreams is an important variable that has not been sufficiently studied, as it might throw light on the recovery process itself. Data from 3 related experiments are presented in which the recall of natural dreams of the previous night is compared for hypnosis and the waking state. The findings support the hypothesis that dreams are more readily...
Dream content elicited following the selective deprivation of rapid-eye-movement sleep was intensified compared to that elicited under nondeprivation conditions. This effect was observed both for repressers and for sensitizers, but was significant only for repressers. On nondeprivation nights, the dream periods of sensitizers were shorter and their dreams more intense than those of repressers.