Dream emotionality. Selected formal properties of dreams

• Authors: Kinga Grzywacz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study was to verify hypotheses about time changeability of dream characteristics depending on the participants’ age and affective value of the dream. The study was conducted online. Participants of the study were 68 individuals between the age of 17 and 85. The participants were asked to prepare detailed descriptions of their dreams, next they had to identify elements of the dreams, refer them to their real life, and assess their affective value. In the dreams of late adolescents, and young and middle-aged adults the most frequently recalled period in a positive context turned out to be late adolescence and early adulthood, whereas in a negative context the participants would recall their present developmental phase and the period of late childhood. Unpleasant dreams of older individuals were mainly connected with the period of middle adulthood, whereas those pleasant ones referred to various periods of their entire life.

Keywords

EN

dreams; affect; autobiographical memory; life span

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 401-412

Dates

published

2015-09-01

online

2015-11-17

Contributors

author

Kinga Grzywacz

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Sopot, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0047