Temporal and emotional factors in the selective recall of dreams

45 grad students report recalled dreams for 4 weeks. The low recall group remember more from the prewakening period, and have more neutral dreams. Students with high recall report more emotional content and more unpleasant dreams. Dreams followed by sleep are recalled as well as prewaking. Anxiety i...

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Published in:Journal of Consulting Psychology 1961-02, Vol.25 (1), p.67-73
Main Author: Schonbar, Rosalea Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dream Analysis
Dream Recall
Dreams - psychology
Emotions
Freud (Sigmund)
Human
Humans
Mental Recall
Old Medline
Recall (Learning)
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Summary:45 grad students report recalled dreams for 4 weeks. The low recall group remember more from the prewakening period, and have more neutral dreams. Students with high recall report more emotional content and more unpleasant dreams. Dreams followed by sleep are recalled as well as prewaking. Anxiety is more frequent in dreams that awaken the sleeper, and those followed by sleep are more pleasant. Findings "support some of the propositions in Freud's theory of dreams." From Psyc Abstracts 36:01:3IJ67S.
ISSN:0095-8891
0022-006X
1946-1887
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/h0043994