Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 2000
Hitoshi Okada, Kazuo Matsuoka, Takao Hatakeyama
The purpose was to investigate the relationship between dream-recall frequency and waking imagery, so 323 undergraduates completed four imagery tests: (1) Sheehan's modified version of Betts' Questionnaire on Mental Imagery, (2) Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire, (3) the Gordon Test of Visual Imagery Control, (4) Richardson's Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire, and a...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 2000
William J. Clancey
5 citations
Information processing theories of memory and skills can be reformulated in terms of how categories are physically and temporally related, a process called conceptual coordination. Dreaming can then be understood as a story-understanding process in which two mechanisms found in everyday comprehension are missing: conceiving sequences (chunking categories in time as a higher-order...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 1, 2000
Rense Lange, M A Thalbourne, James Houran et al.
The concept of transliminality ("a hypothesized tendency for psychological material to cross thresholds into or out of consciousness") was anticipated by William James (1902/1982), but it was only recently given an empirical definition by Thalbourne in terms of a 29-item Transliminality Scale. This article presents the 17-item Revised Transliminality Scale (or RTS) that corrects age and gender...
Medical Hypotheses
November 2000
C W Wong
People can remember the content of a dream in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep but cannot do so in slow-wave sleep. According to a brain model, memory is stored in encoding synapses as presynaptic axonal 'on-off' patterns and modulating synapses help encoding synapses convert short-term memory into long-term memory. These lead to the hypothesis that REM sleep involves modulating synapses of the...
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
October 2000
Arthur Funkhouser, Claude M. Cornu, H P Hirsbrunner et al.
While there have been several studies about dreams and dreaming among the elderly, there does not seem to have been any study of the effects of regular dream-telling (without interpretation). Listening to dreams could become a regular part of caring for the elderly and infirm. The effects of regular dream-telling in mentally healthy elderly clinical research volunteers were measured on several...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
October 1, 2000
L Petchkovsky
Fifteen Central Australian Aboriginal adults (8 patients, 7 colleagues) were presented with a culturally modified version of Flavell's 'stream of consciousness' experiment (pictures of persons with empty or 'busy' thought-bubbles, and an invitation to assign a picture to the mental state of a second experimenter seen reading or sitting quietly). Only 4 people assigned the empty thought bubble...
Sleep
September 1, 2000
Tore Nielsen, L Laberge, J Paquet et al.
Study objectives: This work assesses the prevalence and development of disturbing dreams among adolescents and the association of these dreams with anxiety. Design: Sex differences in prevalence were analyzed with chi-square analyses. Changes over time were assessed with Wilcoxon tests and cross-tabulation tables. Associations with anxiety and DSM-III-R symptoms were assessed with ANOVA...
Dreaming
June 1, 2000
Monique Lortie‐Lussier, Lucie Côté, Julie Vachon
18 citations
The purpose of the present longitudinal study was to determine the extent of consistency in dream content at two periods of adulthood as well as continuity with the psychosocial development of the dreamers. Twenty-one women kept a dream diary for a few weeks at intervals of 10, 15 or 17 years. ANOVAs for repeated measures were performed on the mean frequencies per dreamer of different dream...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
June 1, 2000
Kazuhiko Fukuda, Robert D. Ogilvie, Tomoka Takeuchi
Abstract There were no differences between Canada and Japan in the prevalence and symptoms of sleep paralysis (SP), but many more Canadians considered SP to be a dream. The difference was considered to be derived from the fact that there is a common expression for SP in Japan but there is not one in Canada. Then, we investigated why there are individuals who consider SP to be a dream and others...
Psyche and Soma
March 16, 2000
Philip J. van der Eijk
Abstract Aristotle’s remarks on the soul and its relationship to the body, perhaps more than those of any other ancient philosopher, continue to be welcomed as stimulating contributions to contemporary debate in the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences. Indeed, no modern reader with an interest in philosophical psychology will fail to be impressed by the high degree of conceptual...