Evidence for the preferential incorporation of emotional waking-life experiences into dreams

The continuity hypothesis of dreaming states that waking life is continuous with \ndreams, but many of the factors that have been postulated to influence wake–dream \ncontinuity have rarely been studied. The present study investigated whether certain \nfactors—emotional and stressfulness intensity, and certain types of experiences— \ninfluence the likelihood of a waking-life experience being incorporated into a dream. \nParticipants (N 32) kept dream diaries and waking-life experience logs for 14 \nconsecutive days, and waking-life experiences were matched to dream reports. \nWaking-life experiences that were incorporated into dreams were significantly more \nemotional, but no more stressful, than those that were not incorporated into dreams. \nMajor daily activities were incorporated significantly less than the combination of \npersonally significant experiences, major concerns, and novel experiences. Results are \ndiscussed in terms of dream functionality, particularly in relation to a postulated \nemotional memory assimilation theory of dream function

Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Psychoanalysis · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology · Sleep and related disorders · Sleep and Wakefulness Research

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