Psychological Reports
August 1, 2010
Jerry Kroth, Sonia Mann, Carolina Cervantes et al.
3 citations
During stock market losses in 2009 and high unemployment, ratings on the KJP Dream Inventory were correlated with factors of the Money Attitude Scale and items on the Contemporary Financial Stress Inventory for 71 graduate students in Counseling Psychology and Education. Correlations were significant for Retention on the Money Attitude Scale with Dissociative Avoidance (-.31), Dreams of falling...
Sleep Medicine Reviews
August 1, 2010
Marie Vandekerckhove, Raymond Cluydts
Research findings confirm our own experiences in life where daytime events and especially emotionally stressful events have an impact on sleep quality and well-being. Obviously, daytime emotional stress may have a differentiated effect on sleep by influencing sleep physiology and dream patterns, dream content and the emotion within a dream, although its exact role is still unclear. Other...
Journal of Neurology
July 2010
O S A Oluwole
Lifetime prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for parasomnias were determined. Past experiences of non-REM, REM, and sleep-transition parasomnias were recorded. Diaries of night sleep duration, parasomnias, perception of aliens, levels of physical activity, headaches and intake of all substances, drugs, and tobacco were kept for 14 consecutive days. A total of 276 subjects were studied....
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
July 1, 2010
Irene S. Lazarus
This paper presents a preliminary description of A Transpersonal Feminist Approach to Family Systems (ATFAFS) as taught at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) between 1995 and 2002.In this approach, students studied the principles of Murray Bowen's family systems theory with attention to feminist revisions of the theory while simultaneously investigating their own multigenerational...
Dusunen Adam: The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences
June 30, 2010
Suat Küçükgöncü, Evin Aktar, Ebru Erginbas et al.
14 citations
Relationship between dissociative experiences, abnormal sleep experiences, and sleep quality in undergraduate students Objective: To investigate the association between dissociative experiences, sleep related experiences and sleep quality. Method: 127 undergraduate students have completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), the Iowa Sleep Experiences Scales (ISES) and the Pittsburg Sleep...
Dreaming
June 1, 2010
Umberto Barcaro, Pietro Rizzi
4 citations
The objective of the research was to recognize and describe a phenomenon of self-similarity in dreams, specifically in the connection patterns of dreams: These patterns were obtained by means of a linguistic analysis of data including dream reports and associations provided by the dreamer. Dreams of four patients in therapy, three for each patient, were considered. It was found that a...
Brain
June 1, 2010
Laurène Leclair-Visonneau, Delphine Oudiette, Bertrand Gaymard et al.
Rapid eye movements and complex visual dreams are salient features of human rapid eye movement sleep. However, it remains to be elucidated whether the eyes scan dream images, despite studies that have retrospectively compared the direction of rapid eye movements to the dream recall recorded after having awakened the sleeper. We used the model of rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (when...
Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement
June 1, 2010
Fabian Guénolé, Geoffrey Marcaggi, Jean-Marc Baleyte et al.
Although most of scientific knowledge in dream research is based on young adult studies, this article provides a review of the effects of normal and pathological aging on dream psychology. It starts with preliminary comments about epistemological and methodological principles of dream research, its singularities in aged persons, and the modifications of sleep physiology with age. The whole...
The Sport Psychologist
June 1, 2010
Daniel Erlacher, Michael Schredl
76 citations
Nocturnal dreams can be considered as a kind of simulation of the real world on a higher cognitive level. Within lucid dreams, the dreamer is able to control the ongoing dream content and is free to do what he or she wants. In this pilot study, the possibility of practicing a simple motor task in a lucid dream was studied. Forty participants were assigned to a lucid dream practice group, a...
Consciousness and Cognition
May 15, 2010
Marco Zanasi, Fabrizio Calisti, Giorgio Di Lorenzo et al.
This work evaluated the structure of dreams in people affected by schizophrenia. The verbal reports of 123 schizophrenic patients were compared with 123 dream reports from a control group. In accordance with the Jungian conceptualization of, dreams as texts, dream reports were assessed using textual analysis processing techniques. Significant differences were found in textual parameters,...