Cargando…
Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern
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 characteristics to those of dreams. To investigate this question and examine relevance of dreams to significant persona...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Nature Publishing Group UK
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37130841 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33767-y |
_version_ | 1785035666495635456 |
---|---|
author | Raffaelli, Quentin Andrews, Eric S. Cegavske, Caitlin C. Abraham, Freya F. Edgin, Jamie O. Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R. |
author_facet | Raffaelli, Quentin Andrews, Eric S. Cegavske, Caitlin C. Abraham, Freya F. Edgin, Jamie O. Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R. |
author_sort | Raffaelli, Quentin |
collection | PubMed |
description | 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 characteristics to those of dreams. To investigate this question and examine relevance of dreams to significant personal concerns and dispositional mental health traits, we employed ecological momentary assessment and trait questionnaires across 719 young adults who completed the study during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time marked by considerable societal concern. Across the group and at the level of individual differences, dreams showed the highest correspondence with task-unrelated thoughts. Participants who self-reported greater COVID-19 concern rated their dreams as more negative and unconstructive, a relationship which was moderated by trait rumination. Furthermore, dreams perceived as more negative unconstructive and immersive in nature associated with increased trait rumination beyond variation in rumination explained by waking task-unrelated thoughts alone. Together, these results point to similarities between perceived characteristics of dreams and task-unrelated thoughts, and support a relationship between dreams, current concerns, and mental health. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10152021 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | Nature Publishing Group UK |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-101520212023-05-03 Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern Raffaelli, Quentin Andrews, Eric S. Cegavske, Caitlin C. Abraham, Freya F. Edgin, Jamie O. Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R. Sci Rep Article 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 characteristics to those of dreams. To investigate this question and examine relevance of dreams to significant personal concerns and dispositional mental health traits, we employed ecological momentary assessment and trait questionnaires across 719 young adults who completed the study during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time marked by considerable societal concern. Across the group and at the level of individual differences, dreams showed the highest correspondence with task-unrelated thoughts. Participants who self-reported greater COVID-19 concern rated their dreams as more negative and unconstructive, a relationship which was moderated by trait rumination. Furthermore, dreams perceived as more negative unconstructive and immersive in nature associated with increased trait rumination beyond variation in rumination explained by waking task-unrelated thoughts alone. Together, these results point to similarities between perceived characteristics of dreams and task-unrelated thoughts, and support a relationship between dreams, current concerns, and mental health. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10152021/ /pubmed/37130841 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33767-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Raffaelli, Quentin Andrews, Eric S. Cegavske, Caitlin C. Abraham, Freya F. Edgin, Jamie O. Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R. Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern |
title | Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern |
title_full | Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern |
title_fullStr | Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern |
title_full_unstemmed | Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern |
title_short | Dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and COVID-19 concern |
title_sort | dreams share phenomenological similarities with task-unrelated thoughts and relate to variation in trait rumination and covid-19 concern |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10152021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37130841 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33767-y |
work_keys_str_mv | AT raffaelliquentin dreamssharephenomenologicalsimilaritieswithtaskunrelatedthoughtsandrelatetovariationintraitruminationandcovid19concern AT andrewserics dreamssharephenomenologicalsimilaritieswithtaskunrelatedthoughtsandrelatetovariationintraitruminationandcovid19concern AT cegavskecaitlinc dreamssharephenomenologicalsimilaritieswithtaskunrelatedthoughtsandrelatetovariationintraitruminationandcovid19concern AT abrahamfreyaf dreamssharephenomenologicalsimilaritieswithtaskunrelatedthoughtsandrelatetovariationintraitruminationandcovid19concern AT edginjamieo dreamssharephenomenologicalsimilaritieswithtaskunrelatedthoughtsandrelatetovariationintraitruminationandcovid19concern AT andrewshannajessicar dreamssharephenomenologicalsimilaritieswithtaskunrelatedthoughtsandrelatetovariationintraitruminationandcovid19concern |