The hypnagogic state refers to a transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep, in which
sensory perceptions can be experienced. In this review, we compile and discuss the recent …

This study analyzes the responses of 3,031 US adults who, in early May of 2020, completed
an online survey regarding their dreams and the COVID-19 outbreak. The results indicate …

Affective scientists traditionally have focused on periods of active wakefulness when people
are responding to external stimuli or engaging in specific tasks. However, we live much of …

While recent neurocognitive theories have proposed links between dreams and waking life,
it remains unclear what kinds of waking thoughts are most similar in their phenomenological …

According to the continuity hypothesis of dreaming and contemporary psychodynamic
approaches, dreams reflect waking life. The aim of the present study was to explore the …

The diagnosis of a nightmare disorder is based on clinically significant distress caused by
the nightmares, eg, sleep or mood disturbances. In order to understand nightmare etiology …

Introduction Several results suggest that the frequency of dream recall is positively
correlated with personality traits such as creativity and openness to experience. In addition …

Background Dreaming is a universal experience, yet there is considerable inter-individual
variability in dream recall frequency (DRF). One dominant model, the “arousal-retrieval” …

Lucid dreams are characterized by the awareness of the dreamer that s/he is dreaming.
Typically, if the dreamer can control the dream action, pleasurable activities like flying or …

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 …