Dream content in pregnancy and postpartum: Refined exploration of continuity between waking and dreaming.

Sabourin, Catherine; Robidoux, Raphaëlle; Pérusse, Alexandra D.; Koninck, Joseph De

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“…Finally, the control mastery theory suggests that dreams reflect concerns that could not be solved through conscious thoughts alone (Gazzillo et al, 2020). To illustrate the effect of concerns on dreaming, women in the process of divorce sometimes dream about their ex-spouse (Cartwright et al, 2006); individuals in bereavement tend to dream about their lost ones (Barrett, 1992;Black et al, 2019); pregnant women dream of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood more often than nonpregnant controls (Dagan et al, 2001;Lara-Carrasco et al, 2013;Nielsen & Paquette, 2007;Sabourin et al, 2018); individuals with a substance use disorder commonly experience drug dreams after withdrawal (Colace, 2014;Johnson, 2012); and a large proportion of students who anticipate an important exam dream about it (Arnulf et al, 2014). This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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The feeling priming theory (FPT) of dreaming.

Lemyre¹,

Bastien²,

Vallières³

2023

Dreaming

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This article presents the feeling priming theory (FPT) of dreaming. According to the FPT, dreaming favors the motivation to avoid aversive anticipated events and to approach gratifying anticipated events. It is suggested that one component of anticipated emotions-anticipated feelings-is reproduced in dreams. Upon awakening and during the day, these anticipated feelings would remain activated (primed) in memory. Consequently, anticipated emotions would exert a greater influence on avoidance and approach behaviors, mainly through an increase in the intensity of anticipatory feelings (i.e., feelings of fear or hope/desire). This article comprises five main sections. First, the need for a new theory of the function of dreaming is addressed. Second, key constructs of the theory are described, including the constructs of "emotion" and "feeling." Third, a brief overview of the theory is presented. Fourth, seven hypotheses that constitute the core of the theory are discussed along with supporting evidence. Fifth, an explanation of nightmares based on the proposed theory is offered. The FPT represents an alternative to theories that attribute an emotion regulation function to dreaming. It offers a new perspective on the relationship between dreaming and waking emotions. In particular, the FPT does not label nightmares as dysfunctional. Instead, nightmares and other dysphoric dreams are hypothesized to result from the same processes as normal dreaming.

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Section: Adaptiveness Of Avoidance and Approach Behaviorsmentioning

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The feeling priming theory (FPT) of dreaming.

Lemyre¹,

Bastien²,

Vallières³

2023

Dreaming

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“…More specifically, continuity between dream content and waking life was observed within complex individual characteristics, such as personality ( 3 , 4 ), physical health ( 5 ), social roles ( 6 ) and individual concerns ( 7 , 8 ). It was also found that changes in psychological well-being are correlated with similar changes in emotional dream content ( 9 ) and significant life experiences such as pregnancy can be well represented with distortions in dreams ( 10 ). Schredl ( 11 ) has proposed a mathematical model of families of influencing factors and their interactions that mediate incorporation into dreams.…”

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Dissociated Effects of Age and Recent Troubling Experiences on Nightmares, Threats and Negative Emotions in Dreams

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Several studies have highlighted associations between adverse life events and the dysphoric character of dream experiences. This degree of continuity between waking-life and dream content seems partly attributed to the emotional and personal attachment linked to the incorporated waking experiences. Numerous changes in the processing of emotion-related stimuli are also reported across different human developmental stages. Therefore, we were interested in testing whether age would modulate the impact of recent troubling experiences on dream characteristics. Two hundred sixty participants, evenly distributed in five developmental stages, matched for gender and their exposure to a troubling experience, were selected from a large sample collected for a previous normative study of dreams of Canadians. Participants completed a dream questionnaire from which independent judges subsequently scored the dreams. We observed no interactions between the experience of troubling events and age. However, individuals who experienced a recent troubling event reported a higher frequency of nightmares and their dreams were more emotionally negative. Participants who experienced a moderately severe troubling event were also more likely to experience a dream whose maximal threat severity was of moderate intensity. Adolescents and young adults had dreams with a higher level of oneiric threats compared to older adults (>40 years old). Young adults also reported a higher frequency of nightmares compared to older adults. Our findings have implications for modern dream theories. They also suggest that dysphoric dreams might serve as potential proxies of mental health status and developmental stages. Future studies are now needed to explore the implications of these findings for psychological adaptation.

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“…Various forms of health and illness have also been shown to impact dreams. Events such as pregnancy and surgeries are associated with dream imagery that is distinct from the imagery of individuals who were not experiencing the same health related events (Giordano et al, 2012; Sabourin, Robidoux, Pérusse, & De Koninck, 2018). Poorer physical health or physical functioning has been associated with more dreams involving bodily misfortunes, injuries, illness, and medical imagery.…”

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Pandemic dreaming: The effect of COVID-19 on dream imagery, a pilot study.

MacKay¹,

DeCicco²

2020

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COVID-19 has changed the way that people around the world live their lives, consequentially spurring various mental health difficulties. The current study aimed to determine whether people experienced distinct dream imagery during the early phase of the pandemic in Canada. The dreams of Canadian university students were recorded for 2 weeks during the beginning of Canada's experience with COVID-19. The dream imagery was analyzed and compared to a control group; t tests show that the COVID-19 group had significantly more imagery of location changes, animal, head, food, and virus-related dream imagery compared to the control group. This dream imagery is consistent with previous findings of the dream imagery of individuals experiencing waking day anxiety, suggesting that waking day concerns about COVID-19 may be affecting individual's dream imagery. In addition, the increased amount of imagery related to the virus, food, and head imagery suggests that specific aspects of COVID-19 and the global response are reflected within sleep mentation. As concerns and anxieties regarding the virus are pervasive, affecting many people during both waking and sleep, it is suggested that dream interpretation may be a beneficial approach to alleviating COVID-19-related stress.

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Dream content in pregnancy and postpartum: Refined exploration of continuity between waking and dreaming.

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

The feeling priming theory (FPT) of dreaming.

The feeling priming theory (FPT) of dreaming.

Dissociated Effects of Age and Recent Troubling Experiences on Nightmares, Threats and Negative Emotions in Dreams

Pandemic dreaming: The effect of COVID-19 on dream imagery, a pilot study.

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