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Lucid dreaming treatment for nightmares: a series of cases
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Goal of this series of cases was to investigate lucid dreaming treatment for nightmares. Hypotheses were that lucid dreaming treatment would decrease nightmare frequency and state/trait anxiety, and improve the quality of sleep. Eight participants received a one-hour individual session, which consisted of lucid dreaming exercises and discussing possible constructive solutions for the nightmare. Nightmare frequency and sleep quality were measured by a sleep questionnaire, anxiety was measured by the Spielberger State and Trait Anxiety Inventory. At the follow-up two months later the nightmare frequency had decreased, while the sleep quality had increased slighty. There were no changes on state and trait anxiety. Lucid dreaming treatment seems to be effective in reducing nightmare frequency, although the effective factor remains unclear.
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“In line with this evidence, some studies suggested that lucid dreams could be useful as intervention for nightmare disorders (Zadra and Pihl, 1997; Spoormaker et al., 2003; Spoormaker and Van den Bout, 2006).”
From The Functional Role of Dreaming in Emotional Processes (2019) · cites this paper as Spoormaker et al., 2003
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Nightmares: from anxiety symptom to sleep disorder
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Self-citationThe Functional Role of Dreaming in Emotional Processes
Scarpelli, S., Bartolacci, C., D'Atri, A., Gorgoni, M., & De Gennaro, L. (2019) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00459 · Cited by 190
“In this perspective, considering lucid dreams as a sort of coping strategies to deal with the negative emotional contents of DE, it could be promising as intervention for nightmare disorder (Zadra and Pihl, 1997; Spoormaker et al., 2003; Spoormaker and Van den Bout, 2006).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Spoormaker, V. I., van den Bout, J., & Meijer, E. J. G.
- Affiliations
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Venue
- Dreaming
- Published
- 2003-09
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 181-186
- ISSN
- 1053-0797 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3351
- OpenAlex
- W2111573677
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 0.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Dreaming (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- lucid dreaming, nightmares, nightmare frequency, sleep quality, state anxiety, trait anxiety
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