Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
April 12, 2022
C. Mallet, Christina F. Chick, R. Maatoug et al.
Posttraumatic nightmares may exacerbate and perpetuate the daytime symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and might represent a therapeutic target. The therapeutic strategy of memory reconsolidation using the β-adrenergic receptor blocker propranolol associated with re-exposure psychotherapy is a promising treatment in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Previous studies have...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
April 11, 2022
Rachel M. Ranney, R. Gloria, Thomas J. Metzler et al.
Trauma-related nightmares are highly prevalent among veterans and are associated with higher-severity insomnia and posttraumatic stress disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (typically 6–8 sessions) has been shown to reduce trauma-related nightmares. Brief behavioral treatment for insomnia (BBTI, 4 sessions) has been found to be comparable to CBT-I in decreasing insomnia severity;...
Sleep
April 11, 2022
Benjamin Baird, Giulio Tononi, Stephen LaBerge
41 citations
(1) To critically test whether a previously reported increase in frontolateral 40 Hz power in lucid REM sleep, used to justify the claim that lucid dreaming is a "hybrid state" mixing sleep and wakefulness, is attributable to the saccadic spike potential (SP) artifact as a corollary of heightened REM density. (2) To replicate the finding that lucid dreams are associated with physiological...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
April 4, 2022
Marzia Albanese, Marianna Liotti, Lucia Cornacchia et al.
13 citations
Besides affecting 8% of the general population, nightmares are one of the most frequent symptoms of traumatized individuals. This can be a significant factor in the treatment of post-traumatic disorders; indeed, several studies demonstrated its strong predictive and prognostic value. Sleep disorders, nightmares in particular, could be very distressing for individuals and need targeted...
March 29, 2022
Filip Radovic
1 citation
1 Modern dream-research has established that 90-99 percent of all dreams are completely non-lucid (that is, dreams where the dreamer is unaware of the dream as an illusory experience).See for instance, Antti Revonsuo, Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological
Ideas and Ideals
March 25, 2022
O. Tsvetkova
The article analyzes the development of the ideas of Ludwig Binswanger in the early works of Michel Foucault. The transformation of the basic concepts of Dasein-analysis by M. Foucault leads him to the idea of a human as a dreamer being, and a dream as a way of understanding the ontological foundations of human existence. The article reveals M. Foucault’s idea of the predominance of dreaming...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
March 3, 2022
Kheana Barbeau, Alexandre Lafrenière, Hanae Ben Massaoud et al.
Several studies have highlighted associations between adverse life events and the dysphoric character of dream experiences. This degree of continuity between waking-life and dream content seems partly attributed to the emotional and personal attachment linked to the incorporated waking experiences. Numerous changes in the processing of emotion-related stimuli are also reported across different...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
March 1, 2022
Kyle Possemato, Nina Silander, Nardos Bellete et al.
ABSTRACT: Although nightmares are known to predict the clinical course of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), research on the relationship between specific nightmare characteristics and PTSD severity is sparse. This study conducted a secondary analysis to explore how five nightmare characteristics are cross-sectionally related to PTSD severity in 76 combat veterans with PTSD and at-risk...
Clocks & Sleep
February 28, 2022
Angelina Birchler-Pedross, Sylvia Frey, Christian Cajochen et al.
Growing evidence indicates an association between reduced dream recall and depressive symptomatology. Here, we tested the prediction that reduced dream recall in individuals experiencing major depressive disorder (MDD) is due to alterations in circadian and sleep processes. Nine young healthy women (20−31 years) and eight young unmedicated women (20−31 years) diagnosed with MDD underwent a 40 h...
Research Square
February 25, 2022
Sofia Tzioridou, Martin Dresler, Kristian Sandberg et al.
preprint
A theoretical and empirical association between lucid dreaming and mindfulness, as well as lucid dreaming and nightmares has previously been observed; however, the relationship between nightmares and mindfulness has received surprisingly little attention. Here, we present the findings of two studies exploring the relation of nightmare frequency and distress with two components of mindfulness,...