Sleep
May 27, 2020
P Zendels, S Barngrover, H Peach
Abstract Introduction Nightmares can cause poorer sleep quality. Various mechanisms have been explored as potential treatments for nightmares, including mindfulness practices and lucid dreaming. Presently, little literature has looked at the interaction effects between mindfulness and lucid dreaming to reduce nightmare distress. Methods A sample of 275 individuals was recruited from both the...
medRxiv
May 21, 2020
Natália Bezerra Mota, Janaína Weissheimer, Marina Ribeiro et al.
7 citations
preprint
Neuroscience and psychology agree that dreaming helps to cope with negative emotions and learn from experience. The current global threat related to the COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread social isolation. Does dreaming change and/or reflect mental suffering? To address these questions, we applied natural language processing tools to study 239 dream reports from 67 individuals either before...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
April 15, 2020
Sérgio Arthuro Mota-Rolim
IntroductionLucid dreaming (LD) started to be scientifically investigated through instructingdreamers to move their eyes as soon as they become lucid (Hearn, 1978; Laberge et al.,1981). LD signaling through pre-agreed eye movements (PAEM) is possible becauseeye muscles are exempt from the muscular atonia that accompanies REM sleep(Aserinsky and Kleitman, 1953; Jouvet, 1962). In addition, it is...
Sleep Medicine Reviews
April 1, 2020
Dilan E Yücel, Arnold A P Van Emmerik, Camille Souama et al.
Pharmacological treatment with prazosin and psychological treatment with imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) are the two main treatments of posttraumatic nightmares. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine task force recently listed IRT as the recommended treatment for trauma-related nightmares and changed the recommendation of prazosin to 'may be used'. This new recommendation was based on a single...
Interactive science
March 20, 2020
Anna Valerievna Kalinchuk, Andrey Viktorovich Antsyborov
Nightmares are scary or disturbing dreams which are associated with negative feelings, such as fear, terror or disgust. These feelings oftentimes awake the dreamer, who can easily recollect the content of the nightmare. Nightmares are not necessarily a symptom of a disease. Moreover, nightmares with little emotional response are experienced by almost all people once in a while without any risk...
PLoS One
March 12, 2020
Roar Fosse, Frank Larøi
10 citations
A long noted hypothesis is that mechanisms of dreaming play a role in psychotic hallucinations. One challenge for this hypothesis is that while psychotic hallucinations primarily are auditory, dreaming most characteristically is visual. At the same time, previous studies have not explicitly examined auditory impressions in dreaming. Here, we mapped the prevalence and characteristics of auditory...
Clocks & Sleep
March 1, 2020
Michael Schredl, Sophie Dyck, Anja Kühnel
22 citations
REM periods with lucid dreaming show increased brain activation, especially in the prefrontal cortex, compared to REM periods without lucid dreaming and, thus, the question of whether lucid dreaming interferes with the recovery function of sleep arises. Cross-sectional studies found a negative relationship between sleep quality and lucid dreaming frequency, but this relationship was explained...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
February 25, 2020
George Lai, Jean-Philippe Langevin, Ralph J. Koek et al.
Accurate localization of complex human experiences such as emotions, dreaming, creativity, and consciousness to specific cerebral structures or neural networks has remained elusive despite technological advances. We report the use of acute deep brain stimulation (DBS) to evoke behavioral and emotional effects by applying electrical stimulation (ES) at various voltage strengths to the...
University Library Heidelberg
February 23, 2020
Michael Raduga
5 citations
Most people experience lucid dreams (LDs), which are dreams in which the dreamer is conscious and able to perceive vivid perceptions. There are many ways to induce LDs, but their levels of efficiency are far from satisfactory. In this study, we analyze the efficiency of an LD method that was tested in commercial events with hundreds of groups over 12 years. The main feature of the method is...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
February 1, 2020
Ole Vedfelt
The various ways schools of psychotherapy relate to dreams have been marked by isolationism and mutual conflict rather than self-examination and then integrating the discoveries and methods of other schools. Jung's method was in opposition to Freud's psychoanalysis. Existential psychology was dismissive of Freud's and Jung's discoveries, while cognitive dream interpretation and cognitive...