The individual determinants of morning dream recall

Communications Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 3(1)

Published: Feb. 18, 2025

Abstract Evidence suggests that (almost) everyone dreams during their sleep and may actually do so for a large part of the night. Yet, dream recall shows interindividual variability. Understanding factors influence is crucial advancing our knowledge regarding dreams’ origin, significance, functions. Here, we tackled this issue by prospectively collecting reports along with demographic information psychometric, cognitive, actigraphic, electroencephalographic measures in 217 healthy adults (18–70 y, 116 female participants, 101 male participants). We found attitude towards dreaming, proneness to mind wandering, patterns are associated probability reporting upon morning awakening. The likelihood recalling content was predicted age vulnerability interference. Moreover, appeared be influenced night-by-night changes showed seasonal fluctuations. Our results provide an account previous observations inter- intra-individual variability recall.

Language: Английский

Neurophysiological features of dream recall and the phenomenology of dreams: Auditory stimulation impacts dream experiences

Consciousness and Cognition, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 132, P. 103869 - 103869

Published: May 8, 2025

Language: Английский