Dreams and Human Potential

Krippner, Stanley; Hughes, William

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“…I related my own experience and distributed copies of an essay portraying the process of learning to remember dreams as an intriguing challenge of value in itself (Reed, 1971). The reading material on memory for dreams (Cohen, 1970;Freud, 1954;Jones, 1970;Krippner & Hughes, 1970;Schachtel, 1947) was given extensive discussion to provide potentially useful knowledge of the factors which had been previously implicated, either theoretically or empirically, in dream recall.…”

Section: Group Sessionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As the potential value of dreams receives renewed recognition (Krippner & Hughes, 1970;Rossi, 1971), there naturally anses a consequent interest in remembenng dreams. Research could be helpful, but the choreography of the complex interpersonal relations involved in conducting such research will influence our resulting perspective on the nature of memory for dreams.…”

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Learning to Remember Dreams

Reed¹

1973

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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HENRY REED received his PhD from UCLA in 1970 and is a shirtmaker. For the past three years he has also served as a psychology professor at Princeton University, where he has worked with others in a program of education and reality testing to construct interfacings between awakening and dreaming consciousness. Recently, Henry has been consulting with the Clinic and Research Center for Jungian Psychology in Zumch, on the mcubation of healing and inspirational dreams; and with the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, on a transpersonalized ritual for parapsychological research. Besides talking to plants and animals, his greatest joy is to fly on his bicycle, and whenever possible, on foot. This paper is dedicated to Gayle, whose loving reminders have helped Henry recognize what he knows. ABSTRACTThe possibility of learning to remember dreams was explored with the cooperation of a group of participant-observers who maintained dream diaries for 12 weeks and were selected on the basis of their desire to experience improved dream recall. A self-administered dream recall rating scale was devised which provided measures of several aspects of memory for dreams. The participants apparently increased their ability to retrieve dream memories, but their actual level of dream recall performance was subject to motivational fluctuations. On the other hand, although the participants claimed to have developed no control over the vividness of their memory for dreams, this aspect of their dream recall nevertheless evidenced substantial improvement. The possibility of improving memory for dreams being confirmed, future research should provide ( a ) more information concerning the control processes governing dream recall, and ( b ) information concerning how to increase volitional access to these processes.

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Learning to Remember Dreams

Reed¹

1973

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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“…More specifically, can it be demonstrated that the individual is in a better II state of mind" in the morning than he was presleep because of the way he dreamed? Anecdotal evidence (Krippner and Hughes, 1970) and the weight of psychological theory favor such a demonstration. Before we review some examples of more "rigorous" approaches to the question of adaptive properties of dreaming, consider the following relatively informal demonstration described by Dement (1972).…”

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“…The dream was conceptualized as primarily a defensive process by which infantile motives were transformed into pithy "cover stories" through a process of distortion (Freud, 1953). Or the dream was conceptualized as an alternative way of expressing disturbing personal defects, interpersonal problems, or intellectual preoccupations in a manner that facilitated self-deception (Ullman, 1962), insight (Bonime, 1962;Fromm, 1951), or creativity (Krippner and Hughes, 1970). What these theories have in common is an emphasis on the adaptive significance of the psychological processes tions for research methodology, and the most prevalent strategy has been the use of REM deprivation with NREM sleep interruption (or NREM-Stage 4 deprivation) controls.…”

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Consciousness and Self-Regulation

1976

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“…Dreaming, to use Maslow's terms, is a "growth phenomenon" rather than a "deficiency phenomenon." 16 Krippner and Hughes maintain that Freud and Adler were incorrect when they stated that emotional problems precipitate or 'trigger' dreaming. REM (rapid eye movement) sleep studies show that people dream regularly each night.…”

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Dreaming and bereavement

Moody

1977

Pastoral Psychol

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Bereavement dreams provide an important,though seldom mentioned or recognized, component of the grief process. As the unconscious presses for recognition of the pain and extent of the loss, dream material is presented to help the bereft move to a new and integrative life position. Religious symbols present themselves to give the grieving a new sense of themselves as individuals and an expanding view of the world. Grief therapists have generally ignored this important component of the grief process, and as a result, little significant clinical research has been done. A comprehensive picture of bereavement will not be developed until increased attention is given to this important area.

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Dreams and Human Potential

Cited by 23 publications

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