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...
Journal of Sleep Research
June 21, 2023
Michael Schredl
Research indicated that patients suffering from nightmares are often undertreated. One reason for this gap is that nightmare sufferers themselves often have not sought professional help for their nightmares, and-if they did-it was not very helpful. The current study aimed at studying trait factors (personality, harm avoidance) in relation to the persons considering seeking professional help. In...
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
June 19, 2023
The artwork Hyperdream explores the concept of organicity through the architectural dimension of dreams. A person enters a hypnagogia-like state with the help of a dream machine. We generate hypnagogic landscapes from their recorded brainwaves and reported descriptions of hallucinations. Finally, we conduct an event-related potentials (ERPs) study to investigate the organic response of the...
Psihologija
June 9, 2023
Protić Sonja, Gorzka Robert-Jacek, Höllmer Helge et al.
Gender is one of the well-recognized risk factors for idiopathic nightmares, but rarely connected to posttraumatic nightmare characteristics. Thus, this study aims to test gender differences in (posttraumatic) nightmare characteristics after controlling for trauma-related psychopathology in a large sample of people who experienced trauma. Research participants were 707 soldiers (mean age 31.3...
Sleep Health
June 2023
Brian A Moore, Allison Brager, Jason Judkins et al.
Military personnel experience high rates of traumatic experiences. Despite this, few studies have examined the presence of nightmare disorder in military personnel. The primary aim of this study was to examine diagnoses of nightmare disorder across the 4 largest branches of the active-duty US military. Data and service branch densities used to derive the expected rates of diagnoses of nightmare...
Journal of Sleep Research
June 1, 2023
Elisabetta Fasiello, Serena Scarpelli, Maurizio Gorgoni et al.
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder is a REM sleep parasomnia characterised by the loss of the physiological muscle atonia during REM sleep, resulting in dream enactment behaviours that may cause injuries to patients or their bed partners. The nocturnal motor episodes seem to respond to the dream contents, which are often vivid and violent. These behavioural and oneiric features...
Journal of Sleep Research
June 1, 2023
Giorgia Margherita, Alessia Caffieri
A 'new' way of dreaming has emerged during the pandemic, enhancing the interest of psychological literature. Indeed, during the years of the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many studies have investigated dream-related phenomena and dreaming functions. Considering the constant and rapid emergence of new results on this topic, the main aim of this study was to create an...
Sleep
May 29, 2023
Regan Christian, Danica C. Slavish
Abstract: Introduction: Most adults experience a traumatic event at some point in their lifetime, and some also go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sleep disorders such as insomnia and nightmares are common in PTSD, which may be due to hyperarousal and distressing memories that disrupt the sleep-wake cycle. Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) is a new distinct diagnosis of PTSD that...
Sleep
May 29, 2023
Odalis G Garcia, Katherine A. Duggan
Abstract: Introduction: Dream content is typically measured using self-reports which draw heavily on psychoanalytic theory. There is a need for a modern, reliable, validated, and comprehensive measure of dream content and experience. The DIAMONDS taxonomy has been developed and extensively validated by social/personality psychologists to assess psychologically salient features of waking...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
May 24, 2023
Yuru Nie, Ye Zhang, Rong Ren et al.
1 citation
Trauma-related nightmares (TRN) are a reexperiencing of previous traumas that happened in real life or a dream sequence initially triggered by trauma that leads to recurrent emotional dreaming about the trauma. TRN, one of the most common symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are disturbing mental experiences that generally occur during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and often...