We tested the hypothesis (McNamara 1996; Zborowski and McNamara 1998) that dream recall and dream content would pattern with interpersonal attachment styles. In study I, college student volunteers were assessed on measures of attachment, dream recall, dream content and other psychologic measures. Results showed that participants who were classified as 'high' on an 'insecure attachment' scale we...

Content analysis is one of the basic methods utilized in psychological dream research (1-3). The following example illustrates this approach. A psychotherapist speculates that depressive patients dream about rejection more often than comparable healthy controls. A research colleague elicits 100 dream reports of healthy subjects and 100 dream reports of patients with depression and constructs a ...

J T R E U D POINTED OUT that the production of a manifest dream from a latent dream thought involves essentially the regressive transformation of the latent dream thought, as expressed in words, into perceptual forms, most commonly into visual images. These are then subjected to symbolic representation, condensation, substitution of a part for a whole, hints and allusions, and displacement of a...

A number of hypotheses about the effects of presleep stress on dream recall among field-dependent and field-independent subjects were tested to explore the role of repression and of dream affect in dream recall. The effect of presleep stress was to increase arousal during rapid eye movement sleep and affect in dream reports. The data also suggest that the most affectful dreams are best recalled...

This paper examines how dreaming and interactive processes of dream interpretation reflect progressive development of ego states. We consider the associate and interpretive amplifications of dream process in treatment, with examples from early, middle and end phases of analysis. A corollary is that while dream structure and content may vary along a developmental continuum of treatment, technica...

We investigate what distinguishes reported dreams from other personal narratives. The continuity hypothesis, stemming from psychological dream analysis work, states that most dreams refer to a person’s daily life and personal concerns, similar to other personal narratives such as diary entries. Differences between the two texts may reveal the linguistic markers of dream text, which could be the...

Title of dissertation: STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF METAL AND DNA BINDING TO DREAM PROTEIN, A CALCIUM SENSING TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR IN PAIN MODULATION Aswani Kumar Valiveti, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Dr. James. B. Ames Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology DREAM (Downstream Regulatory Element Antagonistic Modulator) is the first reported calcium binding ...

Memory deficits in aging affect millions of people and are often disturbing to those concerned. Dissection of the molecular control of learning and memory is paramount to understand and possibly enhance cognitive functions. Old-age memory loss also has been recently linked to altered Ca(2+) homeostasis. We have previously identified DREAM (downstream regulatory element antagonistic modulator), ...

Since ancient times, in societies throughout the world, mankind has interpreted some dreams in the context of religion – from invoking the gods into their dreams in incubation temples, to recording dream narratives in holy scriptures of religions that thrive in today’s world. This paper acknowledges that the role of dreams has diminished in many faiths, most noticeably in western Christianity, ...