A body of experimental research has aimed to investigate processes underlying dream
formation by examining the effects of a range of pre-sleep stimuli and events on subsequent …

Dreaming is a universal human behavior that has inspired searches for meaning across
many disciplines including art, psychology, religion, and politics, yet its function remains …

Abstract (summary) The effects of three types of waking situational variables on the
emergence of awareness of dreaming while dreaming or dream lucidity as well as the …

Evidence suggests that (almost) everyone dreams during their sleep and may actually do so
for a large part of the night. Yet, dream recall shows large interindividual variability …

The frequent appearance of newly learned information in dreams suggests that dream
content is influenced by memory consolidation. Many studies have tested this hypothesis by …

Dreams could reflect memory consolidation processes during sleep. The present pilot study
examined whether the incorporation of a film sequence shows a relationship to task …

A thematic continuity between waking and dreaming has been replicated for various waking
activities. Today media consumption plays an important role in waking life and, thus, one …

Dream is a state of consciousness characterized by internally-generated sensory, cognitive
and emotional experiences occurring during sleep. Dream reports tend to be particularly …

Since the dawn of time, humans have sought to understand the nature and meaning of their
dreams. However, despite millennia of philosophical speculation and more than a century of …

This article highlights findings on the factors that have the largest impact on dream content.
Building on gender and individual-difference findings, the article shows that there is a more …