Dreams and feeling realization.

Kuiken, Don

doi:10.1037/h0094431

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“…Section A of Kuiken's 1995 Deepened Self-Perception (DSP) questionnaire. These items are:

I feel sensitive to aspects of my life I typically ignore.

My dream influenced my mood even after awakening.

My dream reminded me of events that occurred in my past.

My dream made me feel like changing the way I live.

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“…After the Dream Appreciation Group the participants completed the 13 item GDI questionnaire (Heaton et al, 1998) and section A of Kuiken's 1995 DSP Questionnaire.…”

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“…In the current study, in order to assess outcomes from the Dream Appreciation technique, participants rate their Exploration-Insight gains, Experiential gains, and Action gains using the Gains from Dream Interpretation questionnaire (Heaton et al, 1998), and complete a Deepened Self-Perception questionnaire (Kuiken, 1995). We hypothesize the following:

Participants would rate Exploration-Insight gains and Experiential gains of the group procedure highly, and, specifically, as highly as those found by participants who follow, with a psychotherapist, the more widely researched Hill (1996) method.

As the Hill method has an aim of therapeutic change, whereas this is not a specific aim of the Ullman method, the participants would rate Action gains of the Ullman procedure as lower than the Exploration-Insight or Experiential gains, and as lower than occurs for the Hill method.

As Hill et al (2001) found that the level of individuals' Own positive Attitude Toward Dreams (ATD) was significantly related to the Exploration-Insight gains subscale score of the Gains from Dream Interpretation (GDI) questionnaire, there would be a significant positive correlation between the Own Attitude Toward Dreams subscale of Cernovsky's (1984) ATD questionnaire, completed prior to the group, and the Exploration-Insight gains subscale of the GDI questionnaire, completed after the group.

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confidence: 99%

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This paper addresses claims that dreams can be a source of personal insight. Whereas there has been anecdotal backing for such claims, there is now tangential support from findings of the facilitative effect of sleep on cognitive insight, and of REM sleep in particular on emotional memory consolidation. Furthermore, the presence in dreams of metaphorical representations of waking life indicates the possibility of novel insight as an emergent feature of such metaphorical mappings. In order to assess whether personal insight can occur as a result of the consideration of dream content, 11 dream group discussion sessions were conducted which followed the Ullman Dream Appreciation technique, one session for each of 11 participants (10 females, 1 male; mean age = 19.2 years). Self-ratings of deepened self-perception and personal gains from participation in the group sessions showed that the Ullman technique is an effective procedure for establishing connections between dream content and recent waking life experiences, although wake life sources were found for only 14% of dream report text. The mean Exploration-Insight score on the Gains from Dream Interpretation questionnaire was very high and comparable to outcomes from the well-established Hill (1996) therapist-led dream interpretation method. This score was associated between-subjects with pre-group positive Attitude Toward Dreams (ATD). The need to distinguish “aha” experiences as a result of discovering a waking life source for part of a dream, from “aha” experiences of personal insight as a result of considering dream content, is discussed. Difficulties are described in designing a control condition to which the dream report condition can be compared.

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“…Section A of Kuiken's 1995 Deepened Self-Perception (DSP) questionnaire. These items are:

I feel sensitive to aspects of my life I typically ignore.

My dream influenced my mood even after awakening.

My dream reminded me of events that occurred in my past.

My dream made me feel like changing the way I live.

…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After the Dream Appreciation Group the participants completed the 13 item GDI questionnaire (Heaton et al, 1998) and section A of Kuiken's 1995 DSP Questionnaire.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…One pertinent theory of dream formation suggests that, through the changes in working memory instigated by the orienting response, categories temporarily intersect in a manner that creates dream "metaphors" [cf. [28][29][30]. That is, the orienting response initiates changes in working memory in response to the [implicit] question, "What is this?"…”

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Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Facilitates Attentional Orienting

Kuiken

Bears

Miall

et al. 2001

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a controversial treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder that requires clients to make rapid eye movements while revisualizing a traumatic event. Although seemingly effective, the process by which EMDR exerts its effects is poorly understood. We propose that EMDR's eye movements facilitate the orienting response, i.e., the attentional adjustment to unexpected stimuli. Since the orienting response has been implicated in spontaneous transformations of dream content during REM sleep, we reasoned that, similarly, activation of the orienting response during EMDR may facilitate content transformations in traumatic memories. To examine this hypothesis, 25 undergraduates completed 20 seconds of eye movements or 20 seconds of visual fixation before each of two tasks: 1) a covert visual attention task, in which a cue indicated the likely position of a subsequent target, and 2) a sentence rating task, in which sentences with either metaphoric or non-metaphoric endings

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“…The emotional response to the violation of expectancies is cited by Llewellyn as a component of AAOM, and yet in dreams bizarreness is often not recognised as such. It is unclear why the author wants to analogise the processes of dream bizarreness to AAOM, which has connotations of rote learning, and the method of loci even more so, rather than towards the more creative meeting between two memories, as proposed by many, with Palombo (1978) being an early example, to Stickgold and Walker (2013), or the more therapeutic views of narrative discontinuities causing changes in self-perception after waking (Kuiken 1995).…”

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The analogy between dreams and the ancient art of memory is tempting but superficial

Axmacher¹,

Fell²

2013

Behav Brain Sci

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Although the analogy between dreams and ancient mnemotechniques is tempting because they share several phenomenological characteristics, this analogy is superficial at a closer look. Unlike mneomotechnically encoded material, rapid eye movement (REM) dreams are inherently difficult to remember, do not usually allow conscious subsequent retrieval of all interconnected elements, and have been found to support subsequent episodic memory in only rare cases.

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Dreams and feeling realization.

Cited by 23 publications

References 52 publications

Dreaming and insight

Dreaming and insight

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Facilitates Attentional Orienting

The analogy between dreams and the ancient art of memory is tempting but superficial

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