Dreams in anxiety disorders and anxiety

A Rimsh, R Pietrowsky - International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental disorders nowadays. While anxiety
disorders are a rather widely investigated group of mental disorders, study of dreams and …

Peace of mind and anxiety in the waking state are related to the affective content of dreams

P Sikka, H Pesonen, A Revonsuo - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Waking mental well-being is assumed to be tightly linked to sleep and the affective content
of dreams. However, empirical research is scant and has mostly focused on ill-being by …

How you measure is what you get: Differences in self-and external ratings of emotional experiences in home dreams

P Sikka, D Feilhauer, K Valli… - The American …, 2017 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
This study demonstrates that different methods for measuring emotional experiences in
dreams—self-ratings of dreams using emotion rating scales versus external ratings in the …

Sleep well feel well: An investigation into the protective value of sleep quality on subjective well‐being

MK Weinberg, JM Noble… - Australian journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Getting a good night's sleep is important to ensure we function most effectively in
our waking lives. One area that is particularly compromised when adequate sleep is not …

Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation

P Sikka, H Engelbrektsson, J Zhang… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing.
However, it is unclear whether dreaming—the subjective experiences we have during sleep …

The continuity between waking mood and dream emotions: Direct and second-order effects

M Schredl, I Reinhard - Imagination, Cognition and …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Emotions are an integral part of dreaming. From the viewpoint of the continuity hypothesis,
two areas are of interest: how are dream emotions affected by day-time mood and how do …

Relationships between dream and previous wake emotions assessed through the Italian Modified Differential Emotions Scale

F Conte, N Cellini, O De Rosa, A Caputo, S Malloggi… - Brain sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Despite the increasing interest in sleep and dream-related processes of emotion regulation,
their reflection into wake and dream emotional experience remains unclear. Here, we aimed …

Analysis of dream contents of patients with anxiety disorders and their comparison with dreams of healthy participants.

A Rimsh, R Pietrowsky - Dreaming, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Although anxiety disorders are well investigated, little is known about the dream content of
patients suffering from anxiety disorders. The aim of the present study was to investigate …

Phenomenological features of dreams: Results from dream log studies using the Subjective Experiences Rating Scale (SERS)

TL Kahan, S Claudatos - Consciousness and cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Self-ratings of dream experiences were obtained from 144 college women for 788 dreams,
using the Subjective Experiences Rating Scale (SERS). Consistent with past studies …

Dream motif scale.

CKC Yu - Dreaming, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The primary purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive assessment tool for
measuring the incidence of dream motifs by revising some original items of the Dream …