ArticlePloS one2020
Quantifying auditory impressions in dreams in order to assess the relevance of dreaming as a model for psychosis.
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- Fragmented sleep relates to hallucinations across perceptual modalities in the general population.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- How deep is the rift between conscious states in sleep and wakefulness? Spontaneous experience over the sleep-wake cycle.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Hybrid sleep-wake states in psychosis: Examining a comprehensive array of unusual sleep and dream experiences in patients with psychosis compared to non-clinical controls.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
A long noted hypothesis is that mechanisms of dreaming play a role in psychotic hallucinations. One challenge for this hypothesis is that while psychotic hallucinations primarily are auditory, dreaming most characteristically is visual. At the same time, previous studies have not explicitly examined auditory impressions in dreaming. Here, we mapped the prevalence and characteristics of auditory impressions in 130 dreams reported after spontaneous awakenings from sleep in 13 normal, healthy people. We instructed participants to report any dream they could recall and to pay particular attention to possible auditory impressions. The participants reported auditory impressions in 93.9% of their dreams on average. The most prevalent auditory type was other people speaking (83.9% of participants' dreams), followed by the dreamer speaking (60.0%), and other types of sounds (e.g. music, 33.1%). Of altogether 407 instances of auditory impressions in the 130 dreams, auditory quality was judged comparable to waking in 46.4%, indeterminate in 50.6%, and absent or only thought-like in 2.9%. The results suggest that also internally generated auditory (verbal) sensations are a central component of dreaming, typically occurring several times every night in normal, healthy people.
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