Essays about: "function of dreaming"
Found 5 essays containing the words function of dreaming.
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1. Does emotional language use in dream and mind-wandering reports reflect mental well-being and ill-being?
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : Over the past decades, there has been growing interest in whether the language people use (e.g., in social media) can reflect their well-being (WB) and ill-being (IB). However, little is known about how the content of spontaneous thoughts and experiences (e. READ MORE
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2. Dream emotions and their relationship to next-day waking emotional reactivity and regulation : An online study
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : Emotions are a central part of our lives and the ability to effectively regulate them is central to well-being. Although a lot of research shows the beneficial role of sleep on emotional reactivity and regulation, little is known about how dream emotions relate to emotional reactivity and regulation. READ MORE
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3. Theories of Nightmares in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : Dreaming is a complex, multimodal and sequentially organized model of the waking world (Metzinger, 2003). Nightmares are a category of dreams involving threatening scenarios, anxiety and other negative emotions (Hartmann, 1998; Nielsen & Levin, 2007). READ MORE
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4. The Threat Simulation Theory and Dream Content Analysis on Traumatized Subjects
University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och informationAbstract : The present study set out to test some of the predictions made by the Threat Simulation Theory, which suggests an evolutionary source of dreaming (Revonsuo, 2000a). The qualitative content and frequency of threatening events in dreams were compared between traumatized Swedish subjects with experience of the tsunami-disaster in Southeast Asia in 2004 with Swedish subjects with no traumatic experiences. READ MORE
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5. Dreaming as a mechanism for emotional handling : did dreams become more emotional after 9/11?
University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och informationAbstract : This study investigates the effects of traumatic experiences on emotional content of dreams. The theoretical framework of the present study is both the threat simulation theory and Hartmann’s theory of dreams as a mechanism for handling emotions after traumatic events. READ MORE
