Dreaming
August 3, 2023
Tom A. Jenkins, Margaret Martin
Previous research has found behaviors associated with personality traits can be found in the dreams of those who possess them, suggesting a continuum between dreaming and waking life. The present study sought to investigate the association between dark tetrad traits (psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and sadism) and dream content. One hundred thirty-seven participants completed...
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy
July 31, 2023
Westley Youngren, N. Hamilton, Kristopher J. Preacher et al.
OBJECTIVE Posttrauma nightmares are recurring nightmares that begin after a traumatic experience. Research has only recently begun to identify variables that predict posttrauma nightmare occurrences. Research has identified presleep arousal-cognitive (PSA-C) and presleep arousal physiological (PSA-PHYS), sleep onset latency (SOL), and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) as potential predictors of...
Somnologie: Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin
July 24, 2023
Jonas Mathes, Jennifer Schuffelen
Abstract Background To date, the relationship between frequent nightmares, chronic pain, waking-life distress and sleep quality is still unclear. Previous research has shown that chronic pain patients reported more frequent nightmares and critical life events compared to a control group. Moreover, patients reported pain dreams similar to pain in their waking-life, whereas controls reported pain...
Sleep
July 12, 2023
Barry Krakow
3 citations
Dear Editor, Campbell et al. report an interesting association between nightmares and cardiovascular (CVS) risk [1]. The methodology in this work, however, is limited in ways that must be addressed in future research. In clinical sleep medicine as well as in several sleep research investigations, it is apparent chronic nightmare disorder often co-exists with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB)...
arXiv (Cornell University)
July 9, 2023
Anubhab Das, Sanja Šćepanović, Luca Maria Aiello et al.
1 citation
preprint
Dreaming is a fundamental but not fully understood part of human experience that can shed light on our thought patterns. Traditional dream analysis practices, while popular and aided by over 130 unique scales and rating systems, have limitations. Mostly based on retrospective surveys or lab studies, they struggle to be applied on a large scale or to show the importance and connections between...
The Scribes of Sleep
July 4, 2023
Kelly Bulkeley
Abstract This chapter examines the dream journals of the seven main figures using a word-search method based on the resources of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb). The SDDb provides a template of forty categories of content, grouped into eight classes: Perception, Emotion, Characters, Movement, Social Interactions, Cognition, Culture, and Elements. The dreams of the seven dream journalists...
The Scribes of Sleep
July 4, 2023
Kelly Bulkeley
Abstract This chapter examines the dream journals of the seven main figures, looking for unusual and anomalous features of dream content. Whereas the previous chapter looked at the common patterns of dreaming, this one focuses on the patterns that stand out as uncommon and distinctive to the individual dreamer. Included is a discussion of the continuity hypothesis and the idea that patterns in...
Sleep and biological rhythms
July 1, 2023
Yi-Seul Choo, Sang Wook Hong, Ga Eun Koo et al.
Dreaming may be affected by sleep behavior; however, evidence of the effect of chronotypes on dreaming is limited. We investigated sleep patterns, dream recall, and nightmare distress according to chronotypes. This cross-sectional study retrospectively enrolled adult participants (age > 18 years) who visited a sleep laboratory between 2016 and 2021 and underwent standard polysomnography (PSG)...
European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
June 30, 2023
Alyssia Simos, David C. Berle
10 citations
Nightmares are a re-experiencing symptom of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD). They are intrusive, involuntary and have a significant impact on wellbeing, suggesting they have substantial clinical relevance. However, little is known about the phenomenological features of post-traumatic nightmares and how they impact the severity of PTSD and CPTSD symptoms....
PsyArXiv
June 30, 2023
Cameron Sandell, Tadas Stumbrys, Ken A Paller et al.
preprint
Standard treatments for nightmares focus on waking activities, with consequences for subsequent sleep. An alternative strategy may be to provide people with a novel way to learn to end a nightmare by waking up. People typically think of sleep as a state that they cannot control, but there are exceptions to this rule. For example, the ability to select dream content in a lucid dream might allow...