Intensified daydreams and nap dreams in frequent nightmare sufferers
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Frequent nightmare sufferers are more frequently endowed with more creative skills.
“it may also explain why frequent nightmare sufferers also more often report a range of positive dream experiences (e.g., flying dreams, lucid dreams), are more frequently endowed with more creative skills (141), and display broader than normal access to emotional semantic networks (142).”
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- Authors
- Carr, M., Blanchette-Carrière, C., Solomonova, E., Paquette, T., & Nielsen, T.
- Affiliations
- Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (CA)
- Venue
- Dreaming
- Published
- 2016-06
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 119-131
- ISSN
- 1053-0797 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3351
- OpenAlex
- W2463287565
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 0.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Dreaming (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Dream Science Foundation/International Association for the Study of Dreams
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- nightmares, daydreaming, dream content
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