Consciousness and Cognition
October 6, 2016
Judith Koppehele-Gossel, Ansgar Klimke, Karin Schermelleh-Engel et al.
Dreams are usually centered around a dream self capable of tasks generally impossible in waking, e.g. flying or walking through walls. Moreover, the bodily dream self appears relatively stable and insensitive to changes of the embodied wake self, raising the question of whether and to what extent the dream self is embodied. To further explore its determinants, we tested whether the dream self...
October 1, 2016
Tomasz Dalasiński
Artykul dotyczy kwestii transpozycji lucid dream (LD), definiowanego jako zjawisko z obszaru psychologii snu, na grunt praktyki literackiej. Celem szkicu jest udowodnienie na określonym materiale literackim (ktory stanowią Sceny lozkowe Adama Wiedemanna), ze LD stanowi autonomiczną (w obrebie tzw. „literatury snu”) konwencje literacką opartą na nieonirycznym postrealizmie. Cechami...
Consciousness and Cognition
October 1, 2016
Jana Speth, Astrid M Schloerscheidt, Clemens Speth
We present a quantitative study of mental time travel to the past and future in sleep onset hypnagogia. Three independent, blind judges analysed a total of 150 mentation reports from different intervals prior to and after sleep onset. The linguistic tool for the mentation report analysis grounds on established grammatical and cognitive-semantic theories, and proof of concept has been provided...
Trials
September 26, 2016
Anna E Kunze, Jaap Lancee, Nexhmedin Morina et al.
Background: Recurrent nightmares can effectively be treated with cognitive-behavioral techniques such as imagery rehearsal therapy, which involves imagery rescripting (IR) of nightmares, and imaginal exposure (IE) therapy. However, the underlying mechanisms of these treatments remain largely unknown. To investigate this, we identified a number of variables that might mediate the therapeutic...
Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture
September 13, 2016
R. E. Sears, R. Hood
ABSTRACT This study examines the responses of Nepali Christians and Hindus to the newly developed Dreaming Mysticism Scale (DMS). Factor breakdowns of the DMS for Christians and Hindus were basically identical, and together they and the factor breakdown of the combined sample suggest an interpretation–extraversion–interpretation typology that corresponds to the typical finding of studies...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 2016
Michael Schredl, Josie Henley-Einion, Mark Blagrove
Although dreams are very private experiences, they are often shared with others. The findings of the present study ( N = 1,375) indicate that sharing dreams is indeed very common and that dream sharing frequency is related to gender (only in adolescents, with girls sharing dreams more often than boys), extraversion, dream recall frequency, and nightmare frequency. Future studies should study...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 17, 2016
Giulia Poerio, Stephen Kellett, Peter Totterdell
This study examined in real time the role of sleep and daydreaming as potentiating states for subsequent dissociation in depersonalization/derealization disorder (DDD). Research and theory suggests that dissociation may be exacerbated and maintained by a labile sleep-wake cycle in which "dream-like" mentation intrudes into waking life and fuels dissociative symptoms. We explore and extend this...
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
August 6, 2016
Habibolah Khazaie, Marzieh Nasouri, M. R. Ghadami
Background Prazosin is significantly effective to reduce sleep disturbance and trauma nightmare in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, results of different studies were evaluated. Objectives The current randomized clinical trial aimed to assess the effects of prazosin on sleep parameters and nightmares among veterans with chronic PTSD. Materials and Methods Thirty-two...
August 6, 2016
N. Zippel
Abstract : The central aim of this paper is to offer a historical reconstruction of phenomenological studies on dreaming and to put forward a draft for a phenomenological theory of the dream state. Prominent phenomenologists have offered an extremely valuable interpretation of the dream as an intentional process, stressing its relevance in understanding the complexity of the mental life of...
BMC Anesthesiology
August 2, 2016
Judit Gyulaházi, Pál Redl, Zsolt Karányi et al.
Background: Images evoked immediately before the induction of anesthesia by means of suggestions may influence dreaming during anesthesia. This study is a retrospective re-evaluation of the original prospective randomized trial. Methods: Dream reports were studied in two groups. In group 1. dreams of patients who received suggestions, and in group 2, those of the control group of patients who...