Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
May 15, 2018
Katrina J Speed, Christopher W Drapeau, Michael R Nadorff
Study objectives: Although nightmares have been associated with suicidal behavior beyond well-known risk factors, the association between nightmares and multiple suicide attempts remains largely unexplored. This study addressed this gap in the literature by examining whether nightmares differentiated between individuals who reported single versus multiple suicide attempts. The individual...
University Library Heidelberg
April 27, 2018
Anthony Bloxham
1 citation
Dream recall ability can vary between and within individuals, dependent on a number of influencing factors, including personality dimensions, number of nocturnal awakenings, and attitudes towards dreaming. Only a few studies, however, consider the possible connection of dream recall ability to general waking memory ability, or the influence of being motivated to actively remember dreams. The...
Oxford Handbooks Online
April 5, 2018
Erin J. Wamsley
Dreaming has often been viewed as a “mysterious” experience entirely distinct from waking cognition. An alternative view proposes that dreams are generated by the same fundamental processes that give rise to spontaneous thought during wakefulness. New evidence suggests that these processes include activity of the brain’s memory systems, supporting consolidation of newly encoded experience....
April 3, 2018
Kristoffer Appel, Gordon Pipa, Martin Dresler
During dreaming, we experience a wake-like hallucinatory reality, however with restricted reflective abilities: in the face of a bizarre dream environment, we do not realize that we are actually dreaming. In contrast, during the rare phenomenon of lucid dreaming, the dreamer gains insight into the current state of mind while staying asleep. This metacognitive insight often enables the dreamer...
Sleep
April 1, 2018
Westley Atrayeau Youngren, Christina S. Khou, Lauren E. Boddy et al.
Although nightmares are common among trauma survivors, the posttrauma nightmare remains enigmatic and under-researched. For example, research has yet to examine if certain types of traumas may be more likely to create nightmares, which is this project’s primary question. Additionally, this project examined prevalence rates, gender differences, and the lifespans of posttrauma nightmares....
Sleep
April 1, 2018
Sooyeon Aly Suh, J Kim, S Han et al.
1 citation
Imagery Rehearsal Therapy(IRT) is relatively a new evidence-based treatment for nightmare disorder patients. This is the first time investigating the treatment effects of IRT using fMRI. Based on past studies by Shen et al.(2016), nightmare disorder patients show increased regional homogeneity in both the anterior cingulate and inferior parietal lobule. This study used a one group pre-post...
International Journal of Dream Research
April 1, 2018
Lucid dreaming is the phenomenon of dreaming while knowing that one is dreaming but the skills within the lucid dream, e.g., carrying out successfully pre-arranged tasks, vary considerably from dreamer to dreamer – even in frequent lucid dreamers. In order to measure inter-individual differences in lucid dreaming skills, a ten-item questionnaire was developed. The internal consistency was high....
Frontiers in Psychology
March 22, 2018
Liat Aviram, Nirit Soffer-Dudek
44 citations
Lucid Dreaming (LD) is awareness that one is dreaming, during the dream state. However, some define and assess LD relying also on controlling dream events, although control is present only in a subset of lucid dreams. LD has been claimed to represent well-being, and has even been used as a therapeutic agent. Conversely, LD is associated with mixed sleep-wake states, which are related to bizarre...
March 20, 2018
Joseph Dillard
It is common to assume that dreamwork requires remembering and writing down many dreams. The good news is that you need not recall many of your dreams in order to derive transformative results from your dreamwork. As a matter of fact, Dream Sociometry can be effectively applied to waking events, which are, after all, subject to the same foibles of individual perception that we bring to dreams....
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
March 15, 2018
Jennifer L Creamer, Matthew S. Brock, Panagiotis Matsangas et al.
Study objectives: Sleep disturbances are common in United States military personnel. Despite their exposure to combat and trauma, little is known about nightmares in this population. The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and associated clinical and polysomnographic characteristics of nightmares in United States military personnel with sleep disturbances. Methods:...