{"title":"A dream-evocative feature in music can be accounted for by the pitch-height auditory effect and a basic dreaming archetype","authors":"U. Barcaro, M. Magrini","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.68125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.68125","url":null,"abstract":"In several famous musical compositions a maintained melodic shift to higher pitches has been overtly exploited to represent the dreaming experience. This kind of shift also plays the artistic role of dream evocation in musical compositions that, although not overtly, are however implicitly related to dreaming. This psychoesthetic effect can be accounted for by two psychological phenomena that at first sight do not seem to be related to each other: the perception of higher pitches as being located in higher space, and the archetypical idea, amply highlighted by anthropological research, of dreaming as the wandering of the soul over celestial territories. This paper describes the rationale underlying the connection between these phenomena. The implications are then discussed in terms of the general relationship between music and dreaming, the connection between the dreaming experience and the artistic experience, the continuity theory between dreaming and waking life, and the role of dreaming in the cognitive science of religion.Musi","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"77-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45864867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dream of Pharaoh’s Chief Cupbearer: A response to Philo of Alexandria","authors":"Yong Lu","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.63461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.63461","url":null,"abstract":"Genesis 40 tells of the Joseph’s interpretation of the dream of Pharaoh’s chief cupbearer. The scope of this article offers a novel argument against Philo of Alexandria for his negative hermeneutics of the chief cupbearer’s dream and allegorical implications, as he replaces linguistic terms in the Hebrew and/or Greek text, “cupbearer” with “eunuch”. The allegorical method which might account for similarities of dream interpretations between Philo and the Freudian and Jungian school is discussed.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"105-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46998213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The construction and analysis of dream metaphors from the standpoint of Co-Creative Dream Theory","authors":"G. Sparrow","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.69293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.69293","url":null,"abstract":"Co-creative dream theory posits that the dream is co-determined through the reciprocal interplay between the witnessing dream ego and the emergent content. Consequently, the resulting dream can be seen as one of many contingent outcomes based on the dreamer’s range of response through the course of the dream, as well as the broad constraints of underlying domains that account for the nature and thrust of the emergent content. From this relational view of the dream, the visual imagery is not the content itself, but rather the “mutable interface” (Sparrow, 2013) between the dream ego and the emergent content. The purpose of this paper is to consider how the Co-creative Paradigm (CCP) builds on contributions by Jung (2014), Ullman (1969), Lakoff (1993), Lakoff & Johnson (1980), and Rossi (1972), in particular, to construct a view of metaphor formation in dreams. By viewing dream content as representing broad domains of human experience rendered as specific metaphoric imagery during the dream encounter itself, this approach can discern where the dream ego stands in relationship to the developmental tasks associated with these emergent domains. Finally, I will introduce a generic approach to co-creative dreamwork that includes several operations that may facilitate effective dreamwork practice. The hypothesis presented in this paper is that this novel view of metaphoric imagery construction, based on the Co-Creative Paradigm, opens up new questions, and fosters insights heretofore unavailable from the standpoint of traditional content-oriented dream analysis.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"90-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44695557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz” – A metaphorical analysis of a long term dream journalist and her troubles with vehicles","authors":"Brigitte Zwick","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.64097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.64097","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the loss of a very important person followed by a personal crisis I started the documentation of dreams and began to consult therapeutic support. In 163 dreams from 1999 to 2019 some kind of vehicle for transportation were involved. More than half of the time it was a car (100 dreams). Car trouble dreams were very frequent (77 dreams, 77 %) and showed themselves over the documentation time again and again. These dreams were accompanied with negative experience and emotion. Patricia Garfield (2001) assumes that these dreams do not reflect problems with driving a car while awake but are a metaphorical expression of having less control in life itself. She assumes that all nightmares, including those about trouble with vehicles, are coping attempts. Another study found out that the subjective stress and job satisfaction is correlated with the emotional tone of driving dreams of truck drivers (Schredl, Funkhouser & Arn, 2005-06). And for Lakoff (1993) powerful dreams are forms of thoughts that express emotionally powerful contents (desires, fears, solutions, fantasies...) by means of conceptual metaphor. Do our vehicle dreams show us how we run our lives?","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"110-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42022951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A diary study of dream recall: Successful dream recall and contentless dreams","authors":"M. Schredl, Meryem Basak","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.70982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.70982","url":null,"abstract":"Contentless dreams or white dreams are defined as waking up with the impression of having dreamed but unable to recall any specific dream content. A sample of 69 students completed a dream recall frequency scale, an attitude towards dreams scale, and kept a diary for a two-week period. Comparable to previous home and lab studies, content less dreams are quite common (about one third of the mornings). The number of contentless dreams however did not correlate with dream recall frequency (questionnaire), the number of mornings with successful dream recall, and attitude towards dreams. Thus, the findings indicate that contentless dreams are not simply an intermediate category between successful dream recall and no recall. Future research, e.g., using cueing techniques, is necessary to shed light on the phenomenon of contentless dreams whether these are simply forgotten dreams (due to interferences) or a minimal form of conscious experiences during sleep.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"123-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48242561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treating post-trauma nightmares and posttraumatic stress disorder in an individual with psychosis","authors":"Merdijana Kovacevic, Joanne L. Davis","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.66929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.66929","url":null,"abstract":"Post-trauma nightmares often persist, even following intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Davis, DeArellano, Falsetti, & Resnick, 2003;Scurfield, Kenderdine, & Pollard, 1990). Research finds that directly targeting post-trauma nightmares is effective in reducing their frequency and severity, as well as improving related symptoms (Augedal, Hansen, Kronhaug, Harvey, & Pallesen, 2013; Casement & Swanson, 2012; Ho, Chan, & Tang, 2016; Krippner & Taitz, 2017; Rousseau & Belleville, 2018). Most efforts exploring the efficacy of interventions for post-trauma nightmares have not been evaluated in individuals with psychosis. However, recent research suggests that individuals with psychosis experience frequent nightmares and comorbidity with traumatic stress disorders (Sheaves, Onwumere, Keen, Stahl, & Kuipers, 2015). The current study evaluated the efficacy of a combination of two treatments, Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy (Davis, 2009) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (Resick, Monson, & Chard, 2017), for an individual with visual and tactile hallucinations, nightmares, and PTSD. Results indicated that the participant tolerated all treatment aspects, including written exposure to the content of the post-trauma nightmares. Further, the combined treatment resulted in improvement in trauma-related nightmare frequency and severity, PTSD symptoms, negative posttraumatic cognitions, depressive symptoms, and sleep quality and quantity. Findings suggested that individuals with frequent nightmares, PTSD, and psychosis may benefit from direct treatments targeting these conditions.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"40-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45297814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The structural approach to the empirical investigation of the meaning of dreams – Findings from the research project „Structural Dream Analysis“","authors":"Christian Roesler","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.67600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.67600","url":null,"abstract":"The structural approach to the investigation of the meaning of dreams is described, which is also the foundation for the research method Structural Dream Analysis (SDA). The method focuses especially on the relationship between the dream ego and other figures in the dream and the extent of activity of the dream ego. Research with this approach has produced new insights on the connections of dream content with the personality of the dreamer. Five major dream patterns were identified which accounted for the majority of the dreams. These patterns are closely correlated with the psychological problems of the dreamers and their development in the course of psychotherapy. Additionally, typical changes in the dream series’ patterns could be identified which corresponded with therapeutic change. The usability of the structural approach is exemplified with the famous specimen case of psychoanalysis, Amalia X, and its 96 dreams. The implications for different psychoanalytic theories of dreaming and dream interpretation are discussed as well as implications for the continuity hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"46-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48870189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Maggiolini, M. D. Lorenzo, E. Falotico, Mara Morelli
{"title":"The typical dreams in the life cycle","authors":"A. Maggiolini, M. D. Lorenzo, E. Falotico, Mara Morelli","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.61558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.61558","url":null,"abstract":"Most dream content analyses have been carried out on young adult samples, taken as norms, with fewer researches on continuity and discontinuity in the life cycle. A research on dreams in the life cycle (1546 participants, from 8 to 70 years), with the Typical Dreams Questionnaire (Nielsen et al., 2003; Dumel, Nielsen, & Carr, 2012), shows that 55.8% of the dreams reports have one or more typical content, with quite a stable prevalence across ages, with more dreams with a TDQ item in children and in older adults, with the minimum percentage in young adults. Children have more diversity in typical themes than other ages.The most frequent items in children have content related to some threat or some magic topic. “A person now dead as alive” is more frequent in older people, while “A person now alive as dead” in children and preadolescents. “School, teachers and studying” is more frequent in adolescence and “Sexual experiences” in young adults. Adults and older adults dream more often of “Trying something again and again” and “Arriving too late”. Changes in typical dream themes can be related to emotional concerns typical of different phases of the life cycle.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"62 1","pages":"17-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64376453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lucid dream induction by auditory stimulation and reality testing during early-morning sleep","authors":"Danielle B. Schmid, Daniel Erlacher","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.71695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.71695","url":null,"abstract":"One challenge in lucid dream research executed in a laboratory setting is the reliable induction of lucid dreams. A possible way to solve this issue is the combination of already known and effective induction techniques (Stumbrys, Erlacher, Schadlich, & Schredl, 2012). The present study combines the wake-up-back-to-bed sleep protocol (WBTB) with reality testing and acoustic stimulation by music. The following question was posed: would repeating the same music presented during the waking dream work session during the subsequent REM sleep increase the chance of a lucid dream experience. In total 21 participants spent a single night in the sleep lab. The whole procedure induced in 3 participants a lucid dream (14.3%), however none of those lucid dreams were verified by LRLR eye signal. The success rate of a combination of auditory stimulation with reality testing thus lies below the success rate of other induction techniques. The incorporation of music as a theme was found in 9 (19.6%) out of 69 dream reports which is in accordance with previously reported incorporation rates. Beside the music presentation, other methodological adjustments were made (e.g., shortening of the first part of the night to 4.5 h), which will be discussed and hopefully help further research to increase lucid dream induction rate.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"99-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46581935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joshua L. Williams, Lynn E. McCutcheon, Jonathan F. Bassett, Emilia S. Flint, Luis A. Vega
{"title":"When dreaming is believing: Extending the findings to favorite celebrities","authors":"Joshua L. Williams, Lynn E. McCutcheon, Jonathan F. Bassett, Emilia S. Flint, Luis A. Vega","doi":"10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.68071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/IJODR.2020.1.68071","url":null,"abstract":"Building on the findings of Morewedge and Norton (2009) we hypothesized and found that our 157 college participants selected the Freudian interpretation of dreams over three other interpretations as the one most likely to be true. We also hypothesized that participants randomly assigned to read a brief script of a positive-, compared to a negative-imaginary dream about their favorite celebrity would score higher on meaningfulness of the dream. We found marginal support for this hypothesis. As predicted, participants who selected the Freudian interpretation of dreams as “most true” did score higher on a scale designed to measure meaningfulness of the imaginary dream about their favorite celebrity than those participants who selected any of the other theories of dream interpretation. Contrary to our prediction, participants randomly assigned to read a brief script of a positive-, compared to a negative-imaginary dream about their favorite celebrity did not score higher on the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS). Participants who selected the Freudian interpretation of dreams as “most true” scored higher on the CAS than those participants who selected any of the other theories of dream interpretation. Discussion focused on the extension of Morewedge and Norton’s (2009) findings on motivated interpretation of dreams beyond the realm of social relationships to parasocial relationships, specifically to dreaming about celebrities.","PeriodicalId":38642,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dream Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"70-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41768716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}