Cadernos UniFOA
April 10, 2016
Omar Franklin Molina
Objectives: Review the literature on nightmares and develop a questionnaire on nightmares to be used in individuals presenting craniomandibular disorders and bruxism. Material and Methods: Review of 50 papers related to dissociation, nightmares, bad dreams, bruxism and temporomandibular disorders. Results: A questionnaire with 100 questions related to 15 categories of dreams, bad dreams and...
Open Mind
April 1, 2016
Michelle Carr
2 citations
La littérature suggère que le sommeil paradoxal joue un rôle dans l'intégration associative de la mémoire émotionnelle. De plus, les rêves en sommeil paradoxal, en particulier leur nature bizarre et émotionnelle, semblent refléter cette fonction associative et émotionnelle du sommeil paradoxal. La conséquence des cauchemars fréquents sur ce processus est inconnue, bien que le réveil provoqué...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 8, 2016
Wei Zhang
8 citations
Kahn and Hobson (1993) proposed that dreams are a product of self-organization of brain during sleep.As a complex system far from equilibrium state, the dreaming brain may form a new pattern by the interaction between components within this system.At REM sleep stage, signals from neuronal clusters self-organize and form image fragments, then the image fragments interact and produce images, and...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 8, 2016
Natália B. Mota, Adara Resende, Sérgio Mota-Rolim et al.
38 citations
Dreaming and psychosis share important features, such as intrinsic sense perceptions independent of external stimulation, and a general lack of criticism that is associated with reduced frontal cerebral activity. Awareness of dreaming while a dream is happening defines lucid dreaming (LD), a state in which the prefrontal cortex is more active than during regular dreaming. For this reason, LD...
Sleep and Hypnosis
March 3, 2016
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
The rare occurrence of the continuation and magnification of dream content, "reality," and "free-wheeling" dynamics (fleeting, poignant, meaningful, and meaningless), intersecting with and interspersed within awake reality and consciousness is here described, for lack of better terms or known conditions, as infra-dreaming, or infra-reality.This term is borrowed from a literary source,...
Sleep and Hypnosis
March 3, 2016
Calvin Kai-Ching Yu, Nigel S. Thompson
5 citations
This study aims to provide a preliminary overview of how specific sleep problems might have differential impacts on the phenomenological properties of dreaming. The sample contained 186 upper secondary school students, whose subjective intensity of dream experiences, thematic dream content, and sleep disturbances were assessed using the Dream Intensity Scale, Dream Motif Scale, and Sleep Habits...
Dreaming
March 1, 2016
Kevin Dionisio Hochard, Nadja Heym, Ellen Townsend
5 citations
Frequent nightmares have been linked to daily distress using self-report measures. The present study investigated the impact of frequent nightmares on a stressful cognitive test requiring participants to perform additions of 2 previously displayed single digit numbers from a number series, where display latency between digits becomes increasingly short—the Paced Visual Serial Addition...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
March 1, 2016
Donna L Littlewood, Patricia A Gooding, Maria Panagioti et al.
Study objectives: Although nightmares appear to be related to suicidal behaviors, the mechanisms which underpin this relationship are unknown. We sought to address this gap by examining a multiple mediation hypothesis whereby nightmares were predicted to have an indirect effect on suicidal behaviors through perceptions of defeat, entrapment, and hopelessness. Methods: Data were collected from...
Human Brain Mapping
March 1, 2016
Luigi De Gennaro, Olimpia Lanteri, Fabrizio Piras et al.
We investigated the role of the dopamine system [i.e., subcortical-medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) network] in dreaming, by studying patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) as a model of altered dopaminergic transmission. Subcortical volumes and cortical thickness were extracted by 3T-MR images of 27 PD patients and 27 age-matched controls, who were asked to fill out a dream diary upon morning...
Current Psychiatry Reports
February 1, 2016
Michael Schredl
Although the relationship between dreaming and psychopathology has been studied quite extensively, research on dreaming in patients with personality disorders has been very scarce. In patients with borderline personality disorder, negatively toned dreams and heightened nightmare frequency have been found-characteristics not determined by co-morbid depression or posttraumatic stress disorder....