Dream Imagery and Emotion

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ID3900678
AuthorsJohn Davidson, Sarah Lee-Archer, Gretchen Sanders (0000-0001-5061-7947)
Year2005
Volume15
Issue1
Pages33-47
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDreaming (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1053-0797 • E-ISSN: 1573-3351
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/1053-0797.15.1.33
OpenAlexW2093748491
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

The relationship between prominent visual imagery and emotion within dreams was investigated in relation to E. Hartmann's (1996) contextualizing image (CI) theory and M. Seligman and A. Yellen's (1987) dual imagery theory. Fifty-nine students recorded dreams over a 2-week period and submitted 115 dreams for analysis. Participants recorded ratings of emotion type and emotion intensity in each scene. Prominent visual images were identified and scored for intensity and detail by independent judges. As hypothesized from Hartmann's theory, there was a significant positive relationship between CI intensity and emotion intensity in the CI scene, emotion intensity generally peaked in the CI scene, and dreams containing a CI had higher overall ratings of emotion intensity than non-CI dreams. The result for the correlation of detail of prominent imagery with emotion was inconclusive, with a low positive correlation across CI scenes. This raises the possibility that the CI is not a unitary construct. Copyright 2005 by the Educational Publishing Foundation

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Dream · Mental image · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Psychology · Sleep and Wakefulness Research · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

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