Schizophrenia Bulletin
1983
Lawrence Fischman
109 citations
Many observers have noted similarities between dreams, hallucinogenic drug states, and schizophrenia. In the present article, certain fundamental areas of convergence between the three states are described. Consideration is given to the hallucinogenic drug model of psychosis: the reasons for its initial attractiveness, and the reasons for its current disfavor. The concept of ego boundaries is...
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
September 1, 1982
R Broughton
The relevance of sleep/waking rhythms to issues of human consciousness is reviewed from data in the literature and from personal studies. Consciousness is often considered to be markedly attenuated or absent in sleep. There is, however, much evidence for a rich subjective experience during sleep, much of which is not recalled later. This implies that William James' "stream of consciousness'...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1, 1982
Piercarla Cicogna, Corrado Cavallero, Marino Bosinelli
10 citations
Reports of 56 dreams from 5 subjects, given upon awakening during the second REMP, were analyzed and compared with a further 3 reports of each dream, obtained the following morning, 3 days, and 1 wk. later, using a system of Coding Units (CUs) and the Scoring System for Latent Structure of Foulkes. There were no significant differences between the second, third, and fourth reports, while the...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
May 1, 1982
Nancy H. Kerr, David Foulkes, Marcella Schmidt
82 citations
Ten college-educated young adults (four sighted, four congenitally blind, and two adventitiously blind) were studied in a sleep laboratory one night a week for 8 weeks. Dream reports were collected from electroencephalogram-defined sleep onset, rapid eye movement sleep, and non-rapid eye movement sleep, following a standard awakening schedule and interview format. Dream reports were analyzed in...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
February 1, 1982
Keith M. T. Hearne
A group of 70 persons (16 males, 54 females) who experience lucid dreams (those in which the dreamer becomes aware of dreaming) were given set tasks to perform in the lucid state and asked to report what happened. A pilot study had indicated certain consistencies of effect between subjects. Evidence was obtained, based on the reports of 16 persons, to suggest that it is often difficult to...
Cortex
December 1, 1981
Nancy H. Kerr, David Foulkes
Our paper addresses, as did a recent study by Greenwood et al. (1977), the question of differential right vs. left hemispheric involvement in REM-sleep dreaming. A male subject with extensive lesioning of the right hemisphere and consequent contralateral homonymous hemianopia was studied for 2 nights in a sleep laboratory where a dream report was collected following each of 6 awakenings from...
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
July 1, 1981
Harold Zepelin
18 citations
Age-related change in manifest dream content was assessed in dreams recalled from REM sleep by fifty-eight men aged twenty-seven to sixty-four and in dreams recalled from sleep at home. There was evidence of a small-age-related decline in dream distortion (bizarreness) and family-related content, with family-related content most prominent from ages thirty-five to fifty-five. Overall the effect...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
July 1, 1980
Seth Robert Segall
5 citations
Seventy-two female undergraduates kept home-recall dream diaries for two 20-day periods in a test of predictions generated from Freud's (1900/1965) repression theory and Cohen's (1974) interference theory. One-half of all the Ss participated in an assertion training program during the time they kept the second dream diary. All Ss were assessed for proneness to use repression as a defense...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
July 1, 1980
Katherine J Schultz, David Koulack
16 citations
Ten women subjects exhibited no evidence of waking mood change or differential dream recall as a function of their menstrual cycles. These findings indicate that, with the use of simple screening procedures, women as well as men can and should be used as subjects in research on sleep and dreams.
Journal of personality assessment
June 1980
N P Spanos, H J Stam, H L Radtke et al.
Questionnaire measures of dream recall frequency, number of sensory qualities in dreams and emotion in dreams were correlated with several imaginal ability and personality variables in male and female college students. Absorption (i.e., subjects' degree of involvement in such activities as daydreaming, watching a movie, etc.) was the most important predictor of dream variables in females. In...