Nightmares: Facts, Fictions and Future Directions

Belicki, Kathryn; Cuddy, Marion

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“…The Play scale evaluates a person’s playfulness, which refers to “having fun versus being serious, playing games with physical contact, humor, and laughter, and being generally happy and joyful” (Davis et al, 2003; p. 59). Because anger is not a typical emotion experienced in nightmares (Belicki & Cuddy, 1991; Zadra et al, 2006) and the reliability coefficient of the BANP Care scale was found to be far below the conventional level in the current Chinese sample (α = .50), the BANPS Anger and Care were excluded from the analyses. The Cronbach’s alpha of the Seek, Play, Fear, and Sadness scales were .62, .66, .83, and .84, respectively.…”

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“…59). Because anger is not a typical emotion experienced in nightmares (Belicki & Cuddy, 1991;Zadra et al, 2006) and the reliability coefficient of the BANP Care scale was found to be far below the conventional level in the current Chinese sample (a = .50), the BANPS Anger and Care were excluded from the analyses. The Cronbach's alpha of the Seek, Play, Fear, and Sadness scales were .62, .66, .83, and .84, respectively.…”

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Lucid nightmare as a state midway between nightmare and lucid dream.

Wong¹,

Yu²

2022

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Lucid nightmares, which are distinguished by their qualities pertaining to both nightmares and lucid dreams, might constitute a hybrid state in between a nightmare and a lucid dream. To test the notion that some lucid dreams might be transformed from nightmares, this study examined a structural equation model in which nightmares were hypothesized to predict lucid nightmares and therefore lucid dreams, with consideration of positive and negative trait emotions. This model was tested on a sample of 249 Hong Kong Chinese adults. The latent constructs of the model were indicated by the items and subscales adopted from the Dream Intensity Scale, Dream Motif Scale, Brief Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale, and Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory. The structural equation modeling analysis supported the proposed role of lucid nightmare and negative emotionality as a predictor of nightmares.

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Lucid nightmare as a state midway between nightmare and lucid dream.

Wong¹,

Yu²

2022

Dreaming

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“…It is thus not surprising that traumatic events and major life changes have also been found to have a significant impact on dream content. Events, such as divorce (Cartwright, 1991), sexual and physical abuse (Belicki and Cuddy, 1991), and torture and war (Lavie and Kaminer, 1991;Valli et al, 2006) have been shown to have a significant impact on emotions in the content dreams of individuals who have experienced these events. Results from more recent studies examining the impacts of COVID-19 on dreams demonstrate that individuals who were more strongly affected by the pandemic physically, socially, or psychologically had more negatively toned dreams (Schredl and Bulkeley, 2020).…”

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Dreamers’ evaluation of the emotional valence of their day-to-day dreams is indicative of some mood regulation function

Barbeau

Turpin

Lafrenière

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Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Results: A MANOVA revealed that subjects perceived a higher level of positive emotions in their dreams compared to a judge. Multi-group path analysis revealed that some relationships between pre-sleep, dream, and morning emotions and stress differed in positive and negative dream nights. In both groups, the strongest predictors of morning mood and stress were pre-sleep mood and stress, respectively. The second strongest predictor of positive morning mood was the subjects' dream positivity bias.

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“…Nightmares are defined as disturbing mental experiences that awaken the dreamer and generally occur in REM sleep [11], alongside typical negative emotions of terror, fear, and anxiety [12,13]. First nightmare experiences tend to be at around three years old, peaking between six and ten years old [14][15][16].…”

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Nightmares in Children with FASD, ASD and Their Typically Developing Peers

Mughal¹,

Wong²,

Dimitriou³

et al. 2021

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Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) experience significantly higher rates of sleep disturbances than their typically developing peers. Pre-sleep anxiety and waking emotional content is known to affect the content and frequency of nightmares, which can be distressing to children and caregivers. This is the first study to analyse nightmare frequency and content in FASD, and to assess its association with psychometric outcomes. We assessed reports from 277 caregivers of children with ASD (n=61), FASD (n=112), and TD children (n=104) using the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ), the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and the Behavior Rating Inventory for Executive Functioning (BRIEF). Within the ASD group, 40.3% of caregivers reported their children had nightmares. Within the FASD group, 73.62% of caregivers reported their children had nightmares and within the TD group, 21.36% of caregivers reported their children had nightmares. Correlation analysis revealed significant associations between anxiety and nightmares, maladaptive behaviour and nightmares, and executive functioning and nightmares in the TD and FASD groups, but not ASD group. This paper adds to the emerging body of work supporting the need for sleep interventions as part of clinical practice with regard to children with ASD and FASD. As a relatively niche but important area of study this warrants much needed further research.

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Nightmares: Facts, Fictions and Future Directions

Cited by 4 publications

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Lucid nightmare as a state midway between nightmare and lucid dream.

Lucid nightmare as a state midway between nightmare and lucid dream.

Dreamers’ evaluation of the emotional valence of their day-to-day dreams is indicative of some mood regulation function

Nightmares in Children with FASD, ASD and Their Typically Developing Peers

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