Nightmares and annihilation anxiety.

Levin, Ross; Hurvich, Marvin

doi:10.1037/0736-9735.12.2.247

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“…In line with the assertions discussed above, and possibly influenced by both dream themes and subjective interpretations, previous work shows a relation between individual differences in positive and negative emotions, including anxiety or stress, and positive and negative evaluations of dreams (Armitage et al 1995 ; Brown and Donderi 1986 ; Dunn and Barrett 1988 ; Kallmeyer and Chang 1998 ; Levin and Hurvich 1995 ; Zadra and Donderi 2000 ). Moreover, experimental manipulations of pre-sleep emotions have been shown to predict negative dream recall (Baekeland 1971 ; Carpenter 1988 ).…”

Section: Waking Psychological Need Experiences and Dreamingsupporting

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“…Herein, we test the idea that such experiences might play out in dreams, with especially psychological need frustrating events surfacing in the frightening, sad, or anger-promoting dream themes individuals report (Belicki et al 1985 ; Brimacombe 1993 ; Hartmann 1984 ; Levin and Hurvich 1995 ). Dating back to the traditions of Freud ( 1913/2010 ), Jung ( 1948/1974 ), and Perls et al ( 1973 ), these dreams reflect experiences that were difficult to integrate or process in waking time because they were particularly painful or threatening.…”

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Linking psychological need experiences to daily and recurring dreams

2017

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The satisfaction of individuals’ psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as conceived from a self-determination theory perspective, is said to be conducive to personal growth and well-being. What has been unexamined is whether psychological need-based experiences, either their satisfaction or frustration, manifests in people’s self-reported dream themes as well as their emotional interpretation of their dreams. A cross-sectional study (N = 200; M age = 21.09) focusing on individuals’ recurrent dreams and a three-day diary study (N = 110; M age = 25.09) focusing on daily dreams indicated that individuals experiencing psychological need frustration, either more enduringly or on a day-to-day basis, reported more negative dream themes and interpreted their dreams more negatively. The contribution of psychological need satisfaction was more modest, although it related to more positive interpretation of dreams. The discussion focuses on the role of dreams in the processing and integration of psychological need-frustrating experiences.

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Section: Waking Psychological Need Experiences and Dreamingsupporting

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2017

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“…Belicki, 1992a;Bernert, Joiner, Cukrowicz, Schmidt, & Krakow, 2005;Berquier & Ashton, 1992;Blagrove, Farmer, & Williams, 2004;Cellucci & Lawrence, 1978;Chivers & Blagrove, 1999;Claridge et al, 1997;Feldman & Hersen, 1967;Fennig et al, 1992;Hartmann, 1984;Hartmann & Russ, 1979;Hartmann, Russ, Oldfield, Sivan, & Cooper, 1987;Hawkins & Williams, 1992;Haynes & Mooney, 1975;Hersen, 1971;Kales et al, 1980;Kramer, Schoen, & Kinney, 1984b;Lester, 1968;Levin, 1989Levin, , 1998Levin & Fireman, 2002a;Levin, Galin, & Zywiak, 1991;Levin & Hurvich, 1995;Levin & Raulin, 1991;Ohayon et al, 1997;Schredl, Kronenberg, Nonnell, & Heuser, 2001;Tanskanen et al, 2001;Wood & Bootzin, 1990;Zadra & Donderi, 2000). Because most of these pathologies are marked by considerable waking emotional distress, their association with nightmares supports our contention that nightmare production is related to a personality style characterized by intense reactive emotional distress (see especially K. Belicki, 1992aBelicki, , 1992bBlagrove et al, 2004;Levin & Fireman, 2002a) However, some caveats should be considered in evaluating the following review of this literature and in attempting to generalize its findings.…”

Section: Nightmares and Psychopathology: Central Roles Formentioning

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Disturbed dreaming, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affect distress: A review and neurocognitive model.

Levin

Nielsen

2007

Psychological Bulletin

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Nightmares are common, occurring weekly in 4%-10% of the population, and are associated with female gender, younger age, increased stress, psychopathology, and dispositional traits. Nightmare pathogenesis remains unexplained, as do differences between nontraumatic and posttraumatic nightmares (for those with or without posttraumatic stress disorder) and relations with waking functioning. No models adequately explain nightmares nor have they been reconciled with recent developments in cognitive neuroscience, fear acquisition, and emotional memory. The authors review the recent literature and propose a conceptual framework for understanding a spectrum of dysphoric dreaming. Central to this is the notion that variations in nightmare prevalence, frequency, severity, and psychopathological comorbidity reflect the influence of both affect load, a consequence of daily variations in emotional pressure, and affect distress, a disposition to experience events with distressing, highly reactive emotions. In a cross-state, multilevel model of dream function and nightmare production, the authors integrate findings on emotional memory structures and the brain correlates of emotion.Keywords: nightmares, distress, neurophysiology of fear memory, posttraumatic stress disorder, psychopathology Nightmares are the most common form of disturbed dreaming. Vivid, with emotions escalating at times to the brink of terror, they are manifestations of the dramatic autonomic and cognitive fluctuations that can arise during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and, under certain circumstances, during Stage 2 sleep. Nightmares can be simple and benign or so emotionally severe that they beg for comparison with psychotic episodes (C. Fisher, Byrne, Edwards, & Kahn, 1970;Hartmann, 1984;Sullivan, 1962). Occasional nightmares are almost ubiquitous in the general population. However, frequent distressing nightmares are more common than generally thought, affecting 4%-10% of individuals by conservative estimates. Nightmares are also extremely common following trauma exposure. Posttraumatic nightmares may depict traumarelated content and, in cases of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), may at times replicate the trauma with great distress (for review, see Mellman & Pigeon, 2005).There has been a proliferation of experimental work on posttraumatic and nontraumatic nightmares in the past 15 years, the vast majority of which has examined the psychopathological correlates of individuals with frequent nightmares. Furthermore, recent advances in neuroscience have greatly expanded our understanding of dreaming and related brain functions (Maquet, 2000;Maquet et al., 2000) as well as the pathogenic mechanisms implicated in fear conditioning and the development of PTSD (LeDoux, 2000;Ohman & Mineka, 2001). However, despite the clear implications of these developments for understanding nightmares, there are still no comprehensive models of nightmare etiology and no conceptual frameworks for understanding the link between posttraumatic and nontraumatic nightm...

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“…Several factors may account for these inconsistent findings. First, different studies have focused on different populations, including undergraduate students (Cellucci & Lawrence, 1978;Dunn & Barrett, 1988;Feldman & Hersen, 1967;Haynes & Mooney, 1975;Lester, 1968Lester, , 1969Levin, 1989Levin, , 1998Levin & Hurvich, 1995;Wood & Bootzin, 1990), nonstudent adults (Hearne, 1991;Kales et al, 1980;Miller & DiPilato, 1983), psychiatric inpatients (Hersen, 1971), and people with a lifelong history of frequent nightmares (Berquier & Ashton, 1992;Hartmann & Russ, 1979;Hartmann et al, 1981). It is possible that the nature and magnitude of relationships between nightmares and psychopathology vary across some of these populations.…”

Section: Nightmares and Psychopathologymentioning

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Nightmares and bad dreams: Their prevalence and relationship to well-being.

Zadra

Donderi²

2000

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

299

153

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This study, for the first time, distinguishes between nightmares and bad dreams, measures the frequency of each using dream logs, and separately assesses the relation between nightmares, bad dreams, and well-being. Eighty-nine participants completed 7 measures of well-being and recorded their dreams for 4 consecutive weeks. The dream logs yielded estimated mean annual nightmare and bad-dream frequencies that were significantly (ps < .01) greater than the mean 12-month and 1-month retrospective estimates. Nightmare frequency had more significant correlations than bad-dream frequency with well-being, suggesting that nightmares are a more severe expression of the same basic phenomenon. The findings confirm and extend evidence that nightmares are more prevalent than was previously believed and underscore the need to differentiate nightmares from bad dreams.

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Nightmares and annihilation anxiety.

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Linking psychological need experiences to daily and recurring dreams

Linking psychological need experiences to daily and recurring dreams

Disturbed dreaming, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affect distress: A review and neurocognitive model.

Nightmares and bad dreams: Their prevalence and relationship to well-being.

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