Critical Survey
June 1, 2015
In a cross-disciplinary investigation of lighting technology and sleep science, I strive to illuminate the ways in which Victorians under the seductive influence and increasing availability of bright city light saw night as a useful space and time. Stoker's Dracula (1897) is a crucial text for examining change in late Victorian nightlife because one of the key determinants of power and...
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
June 1, 2015
Thomas Mclaughlin, Kenneth Blum, Marlene Oscar-Berman et al.
Background: Lucid dreams are frequently pleasant and training techniques have been developed to teach dreamers to induce them. In addition, the induction of lucid dreams has also been used as a way to ameliorate nightmares. On the other hand, lucid dreams may be associated with psychiatric conditions, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Reward Deficiency Syndrome-associated...
May 1, 2015
Barry Krakow
4 citations
Sleep medicine specialists view the problem of chronic nightmare disorder as an independent sleep disorder. When patients seek treatment for chronic nightmares, a direct intervention may be offered regardless of the putative causes. This approach derives from the assumption that nightmares may persist because they “take on a life of their own” (Krakow & Zadra, 2006a) despite the fact that...
May 1, 2015
Gayle Delaney
The cognitive experiential dream model (CEDM) was developed as a means for studying the effects of working with dreams in therapy. The CEDM comprises three stages: exploration, insight, and action. The model is based on client-centered theory in that the therapist serves as a guide in helping the client explore her or his dreams rather than serving as an expert who has the interpretation. Some...
Consciousness and Cognition
May 1, 2015
Denholm J Aspy, Paul Delfabbro, Michael Proeve
There are two methods commonly used to measure dream recall in the home setting. The retrospective method involves asking participants to estimate their dream recall in response to a single question and the logbook method involves keeping a daily record of one's dream recall. Until recently, the implicit assumption has been that these measures are largely equivalent. However, this is challenged...
Sleep
April 30, 2015
Michael Rak, P. Beitinger, Axel Steiger et al.
56 citations
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Nightmares are a frequent symptom in narcolepsy. Lucid dreaming, i.e., the phenomenon of becoming aware of the dreaming state during dreaming, has been demonstrated to be of therapeutic value for recurrent nightmares. Data on lucid dreaming in narcolepsy patients, however, is sparse. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of recalled dreams (DF), nightmares (NF),...
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
April 15, 2015
Maria-Lucia Muntean, Claudia Trenkwalder, Arthur S Walters et al.
To clarify whether motor behaviors and/ or vocalizations during REM sleep, which do not yet fulfill diagnostic criteria for REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and were defined as REM sleep behavioral events (RBEs), correspond to dream enactments. 13 subjects (10 patients with Parkinson disease [PD] and 3 healthy controls) originally identified with RBE in a prospective study (DeNoPa cohort) were...
Sleep Medicine Reviews
April 1, 2015
Martin Dresler, Renate Wehrle, Victor I. Spoormaker et al.
The idea that dreaming can serve as a model for psychosis has a long and honourable tradition, however it is notoriously speculative. Here we demonstrate that recent research on the phenomenon of lucid dreaming sheds new light on the debate. Lucid dreaming is a rare state of sleep in which the dreamer gains insight into his state of mind during dreaming. Recent electroencephalogram (EEG) and...
Journal of Psychology Research
March 28, 2015
Anastassios Koukis
The present study further explores the idea presented first in my book Dreams in Group Analysis (Koukis, 2004), i.e., that group-analytic psychotherapy can help patients suffering from psychosis to reconstruct their ability to dream, thereby easing their symptoms. It demonstrates the way in which patients with psychosis transform what Freud (1900) described as the archaic ontological nucleus of...
Social History of Medicine
March 4, 2015
Stephen Gordon
10 citations
The aim of this article is to analyse the popular perception of the nightmare in medieval Europe. The first section will explore the ways in which the base experience of the nightmare (as documented in neuropsychological research) was interpreted according to Church doctrine, classical dream theories and Galenic medicine. Then, with reference to the remedies used to protect the body against the...