{"title":"Editor’s Statement","authors":"J. M. Honeycutt, K. Markman, A. D’Angiulli","doi":"10.1177/02762366221129796","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to our winter issue. May we all be warm during the coming months with increased heating costs. Volume 42, Issue 2 two contains five exciting articles. The topics deal with lucid dreaming, imagined interactions and unrequited love, narrative identity and conception, and creative thinking. The first pair of studies examine lucid dreaming and personality led by the dream research team of Michel Schredl in the sleep laboratory and Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany. When dreaming lucidly, the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming within the dream. The initial study is co-authored with Anellka Remedios, Silvia Marin-Dragu, Sana Sheikh, Alyssa Forbes, Ravishankar Subramani Iyer, Matt Orr, and Sandra Meier. They investigated the frequency of recalling lucid dreams and personality correlates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us recall stories of people having time on their hands while staying at home during periods of isolation and quarantining. Hence, dreaming can increase. Their study was large as they surveyed over 1500 participants about the frequency of lucid dreaming and their association with the BIG 5 personality traits (OCEAN; openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.) The results are intriguing in that lucid dream frequency was related to Covid-19-related worries while dream recall frequency was not. The second study was authored by Michael Schredl, Judith Zumstein, Sven Baumann, and Mirja Schmidt. They investigated sensory processing sensitivity and the Big 5 personality traits in conjunction with lucid dreaming. There are three factors of sensory processing sensitivity; ease of Excitation, aesthetic sensitivity, and low sensory threshold. Again, this was a large study with over 1800 participants. The older mean age of around 48 was nice, since so many studies contain younger age distributions. The results are intriguing in terms of the mechanism underlying the inter-individual differences in lucid dream frequency. The third study investigates mental imagery in the form of imagined interactions in terms of not having love returned among Chinese participants. It is authored byMu Hu, Bingqing Zhang, Yinghe Shen, Jing Guo, and Shuwen Wang. Over 200 Chinese college students participated by answering surveys. The finding that more idealized romantic beliefs were associated with stronger unrequited love reinforces earlier findings. Moreover, “Would-be lovers who had imagined interactions” with those they Editorial","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"42 1","pages":"111 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Imagination, cognition and personality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221129796","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Welcome to our winter issue. May we all be warm during the coming months with increased heating costs. Volume 42, Issue 2 two contains five exciting articles. The topics deal with lucid dreaming, imagined interactions and unrequited love, narrative identity and conception, and creative thinking. The first pair of studies examine lucid dreaming and personality led by the dream research team of Michel Schredl in the sleep laboratory and Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany. When dreaming lucidly, the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming within the dream. The initial study is co-authored with Anellka Remedios, Silvia Marin-Dragu, Sana Sheikh, Alyssa Forbes, Ravishankar Subramani Iyer, Matt Orr, and Sandra Meier. They investigated the frequency of recalling lucid dreams and personality correlates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us recall stories of people having time on their hands while staying at home during periods of isolation and quarantining. Hence, dreaming can increase. Their study was large as they surveyed over 1500 participants about the frequency of lucid dreaming and their association with the BIG 5 personality traits (OCEAN; openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.) The results are intriguing in that lucid dream frequency was related to Covid-19-related worries while dream recall frequency was not. The second study was authored by Michael Schredl, Judith Zumstein, Sven Baumann, and Mirja Schmidt. They investigated sensory processing sensitivity and the Big 5 personality traits in conjunction with lucid dreaming. There are three factors of sensory processing sensitivity; ease of Excitation, aesthetic sensitivity, and low sensory threshold. Again, this was a large study with over 1800 participants. The older mean age of around 48 was nice, since so many studies contain younger age distributions. The results are intriguing in terms of the mechanism underlying the inter-individual differences in lucid dream frequency. The third study investigates mental imagery in the form of imagined interactions in terms of not having love returned among Chinese participants. It is authored byMu Hu, Bingqing Zhang, Yinghe Shen, Jing Guo, and Shuwen Wang. Over 200 Chinese college students participated by answering surveys. The finding that more idealized romantic beliefs were associated with stronger unrequited love reinforces earlier findings. Moreover, “Would-be lovers who had imagined interactions” with those they Editorial