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ArticleSleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society2025

Targeted dream incubation and dream self-efficacy.

Westley A Youngren, Adam Haar Horowitz, Victoria West Staples, Michelle Carr, Robert Stickgold, Pattie Maes

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Article in Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Festschrift in honor of Dr. Robert Stickgold, pioneer in sleep, memory, and dream research.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Westley A YoungrenDepartment of Psychology and Counseling, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0259-8689
Adam Haar HorowitzMIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Victoria West StaplesDepartment of Psychology and Counseling, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Michelle CarrDepartment of Psychiatry and Addictology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Robert StickgoldCenter for Sleep and Cognition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Pattie MaesMIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This preliminary study investigates the potential for a technique that enables purposeful guiding of dream content (Targeted Dream Incubation; TDI) to change the degree to which an individual feels in control of their dreams (Dream Self-Efficacy; DSE). DSE is a subset of a larger concept of self-efficacy relating to one's belief in their own abilities and competencies. Examining DSE may be quite important, as past research has demonstrated that DSE may be linked to positive treatment outcomes in specific therapies, such as interventions for trauma-related nightmares. Furthermore, prior research has found that decreasing feelings of helplessness related to sleep has been shown to improve insomnia symptoms and daytime fatigue. Thus, our study sought to examine the relationship between TDI and DSE. We enrolled

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dreamingself-efficacytargeted dream incubation

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PMCPMC12022959

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