Indian Journal of Psychiatry
October 1, 1985
Golechha Gr, Rao Av, Ruggu Rk
Ketamine is a rapid acting parentrally administered non barbiturate anaesthetic agent with minimum cardio respiratory depressant effect as compared to others (Paul et al 1982). It is in clinical use for more than ten years and used safely in aged and critically ill patients (Lorhan & Limppman 1971, Barson and Aren 1974). In sub-anaesthetic doses it has been safely used to produce obstetrical...
1985
Marion Cuddy
This study investigated a view of dreaming known as the Continuity Hypothesis. The continuity hypothesis postulates a relationship - a continuity between nocturnal dreaming and day dreaming as a continuous fantasy process. The continuity hypothesis is constrained by individual differences in reports of experience and by the fantasy situation. The continuity hypothesis can be examined through...
Psychiatry Research
November 1, 1984
R C Smith
One way to study dream function is to use dream content as an independent variable. Erroneous or inconstant definition of the dream content, however, would undermine its use as a predictor. This study describes a dream interview technique that allows assessment and control of the distorting effect from using, in addition to a single report of manifest content, associative dream content and...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 1984
Ilene Wasserman, Bonnie L. Ballif
Perceived interactions between the dream division of consciousness and waking consciousness were investigated by asking subjects to attribute their moods to one of ten possible causes and to rate the influence of their dreams for twenty-eight days. Over time, some subjects occasionally evaluated dreams as the dominant cause of their moods. Across subjects and days, 11 percent of recalled dreams...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1, 1984
Piercarla Cicogna, Daniela Battaglia, Corrado Cavallero
Two reports of the same REM dream, which were collected 5 hr. apart in waking condition, were compared to two film reports, collected under the same conditions. Differences in the addition of content elements and associative sentences between first and second reports of the dream and film materials were analyzed. Keeping the physiological condition constant during the interval between the two...
Psychophysiology
July 1, 1984
Paul D. Tyson, Robert D. Ogilvie, Harry T. Hunt
59 citations
ABSTRACT Alpha activity during REM sleep without signs of awakening can discriminate between the blind classification of prelucid, lucid, and nonlucid dreams. Ten good dream recallers were aroused after relatively high or low amplitude REM alpha. The spectral and temporal characteristics of EEG alpha within each REM period were associated with lucidity and other content dimensions. Each type of...
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
June 1, 1984
Steve Herman, W. Derek Shows
32 citations
The question of age changes in frequency of dream recall was addressed in a questionnaire survey of 295 collage-educated men and women aged seventeen to seventy. Dream recall was found to be maximal for men and women alike during the college years, with a subsequent decline to a much lower level in the forties and beyond. The drop in recall frequency is paralleled by a declining interest in,...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
May 1, 1984
Rob McGee
27 citations
Alarcon, Dickinson, and Dohn (J. Nerv. Ment. Dis., 170: 217-223, 1982) recently reviewed the phenomenon of memory flashback following use of hallucinogenic drugs. They point out that while there are a considerable number of explanations concerning the flashback mechanism, little is known about the real causes. This paper examines flashback following drug ingestion in the light of other memory...
Psychiatry Research
May 1, 1984
I Trenholme, R D Cartwright, G Greenberg
Dreams reported from laboratory awakening of stably married women differed from those of women undergoing divorce: The former dreamed of the experiment; the latter had more threat themes. Those coping well during the divorce had more positive motives in the last dream than those who were depressed. Dreams of the nondepressed divorcées increased in anxiety from first to last dream report,...
The Journal of Psychology
1984
Kenneth A. Blick, Joan B. Howe
22 citations
Twenty-four college and 37 elderly women kept diaries for six weeks, at the end of which they voluntarily submitted them for analysis. The college women selected significantly more emotions for their dreams than did the elderly women. Enjoyment-joy accounted for a significantly higher proportion of emotions in dreams of elderly than in those of college women; but anger-rage and fear-terror...