Drawing theoretical implications from descriptive empirical findings on dream content.

Domhoff, G. William

doi:10.1023/a:1021302118072

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“…Moreover, we did not observe a difference in bizarreness between waking and dreaming thoughts. Although we are hesitant to over-interpret a null effect, one possible implication of this result is that, although dreaming, particularly REM dreaming, frequently involves bizarre elements (Schredl, 2010a), thoughts in particular may be less bizarre and more consistent across sleep and wake states (Fox et al, 2013; Wamsley, 2013; Domhoff, 2007) than previously acknowledged (Williams, Merritt, Rittenhouse, & Hobson, 1992).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 58%

The Phenomenal Contents and Neural Correlates of Spontaneous Thoughts across Wakefulness, NREM Sleep, and REM Sleep

Perogamvros

Baird

Seibold

et al. 2017

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Thoughts occur during wake as well as during dreaming sleep. Using experience sampling combined with high-density EEG, we investigated the phenomenal qualities and neural correlates of spontaneously occurring thoughts across wakefulness, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and REM sleep. Across all states, thoughts were associated with activation of a region of the midcingulate cortex. Thoughts during wakefulness additionally involved a medial prefrontal region, which was associated with metacognitive thoughts during wake. Phenomenologically, waking thoughts had more metacognitive content than thoughts during both NREM and REM sleep, whereas thoughts during REM sleep had a more social content. Together, these results point to a core neural substrate for thoughts, regardless of behavioral state, within the midcingulate cortex, and suggest that medial prefrontal regions may contribute to metacognitive content in waking thoughts.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 58%

The Phenomenal Contents and Neural Correlates of Spontaneous Thoughts across Wakefulness, NREM Sleep, and REM Sleep

Perogamvros

Baird

Seibold

et al. 2017

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Current dream research (Domhoff, 1999;Schredl, 2003) and more specifically sex dream research (Clarke, DeCicco, & Navara, 2010;King et al, 2009;Schredl, 2008) support the theory that dreams reflect waking day life, the continuity hypothesis (Hall & Nordby, 1972). King et al (2009) found participants with more sexuality in their dreams reported higher levels of orgasmic experience, sexual daydreaming, and sexual fantasizing in waking day.…”

Section: Current Sex Dream Researchmentioning

confidence: 98%

Dreams with Sexual Imagery: Gender Differences in Content between Canadians and Italians

Zanasi

DeCicco

Dale

et al. 2012

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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This research extends previous investigations on dreams with sexual imagery while beginning the empirical investigation across cultures and between genders. To extend previous cultural research, sexual dream imagery and frequency between Italian and Canadian men and women were examined. The first study consisted of two samples of 267 dreams (112 male and 155 female) from Trent University, Canada and Tor Vergata University, Italy. The second study consisted of two samples of 100 dreams with sexual content (50 male and 50 female) from Canadian and Italian students. Computer textual analysis of dream content categories revealed that sexual imagery and frequency of sexual dream content was consistent with previous research. New findings were found between the two cultures and across gender. For dreams in general, differences were found between Italian males and Italian females, and, between Italian females and Canadian females. These studies show that both cultural and gender differences are relevant for dreams with sexual imagery. Further investigations are warranted and should be extended to other cultural groups now that the protocol has been established through these studies. Limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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“…Using the Hall-Van de Castle system requires scoring all content elements for each dream report, then converting the content element frequencies into percentages and rates for use in various indexes (Domhoff, 1996(Domhoff, , 1999. Domhoff (1999) suggested that by combining various nominal dream content categories, such indexes could be used "instead of unreliable or complicated theoretical rating scales" (p. 123). The Hall-Van de Castle (1966) system is one of several systems that have been developed in an attempt to reflect the link between a dream report and the dreamer's cognition, environment, and behavior.…”

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Cognitive Differences in Dream Content between English Males and Females Attending Dream Seminars Using Quantitative Content Analysis

Tartz

Baker

Krippner

2007

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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This study investigated if dream content differences exist between male and female dreamers in England. One most recent dream report was collected from each of the 100 male and 100 female research participants during dream seminars and a dream research project held in England between 1990 and 2004. The Hall-Van de Castle System of Content Analysis (1966) was used to score each dream report. Major findings showed that English males scored significantly higher on the Aggression/Friendliness index compared to English females. By contrast, English females reported a significantly higher Physical Aggression index compared to males. Females also reported a much higher Bodily Misfortunes percentage compared to males. Although some findings were similar to past studies using American participants, others were unique to this study and may be attributable to the particular sample used in this study (dream seminar attendees), or may suggest actual underlying cultural patterns of contemporary English men and women.

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Drawing theoretical implications from descriptive empirical findings on dream content.

Cited by 30 publications

References 54 publications

The Phenomenal Contents and Neural Correlates of Spontaneous Thoughts across Wakefulness, NREM Sleep, and REM Sleep

The Phenomenal Contents and Neural Correlates of Spontaneous Thoughts across Wakefulness, NREM Sleep, and REM Sleep

Dreams with Sexual Imagery: Gender Differences in Content between Canadians and Italians

Cognitive Differences in Dream Content between English Males and Females Attending Dream Seminars Using Quantitative Content Analysis

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