ABSTRACT

Objective

As existing findings are inconclusive, this paper aims to provide a thorough analysis of the bizarreness of everyday dreams and to explore its relations to the emotional quality of dreams and the dreamers’ quality of life.

Method

61 women’s two week long dream journal (502 dreams) were analyzed using two different kinds of scales in order to capture the bizarre qualities of the reports. The emotional qualities of the dreams were also classified. At the end of the dream log participants filled in the WHOQOL-100 questionnaire to evaluate the different aspects of their quality of life. We examined the frequency and distribution of the distinct forms of distortions in every day dreams by using descriptive statistics. We carried out one-way analysis of variance to analyze the connection between the emotional tone of dreams and their bizarreness. To explore how the inter-individual differences in the qualities of dreams relate to the dreamers quality of life, Spearman correlation and Linear regression were calculated.

Results

According to our findings, although most home reported dreams contain some bizarre elements, they are rarely extremely unrealistic, and there is also a considerable amount of totally mundane dreams. The distortions are not randomly distributed but are mostly related to those parts of the reports which are created during the process of narrative formation. Our findings implicate substantial individual differences regarding the bizarreness and emotional tone of everyday dreams, and both of them correlate with some aspects of the subject’s quality of life.

Conclusions

Those theories should be favored, which can accommodate both unrealistic and totally mundane reports, and can account for the interpersonal differences in this quality of dreams.

中文翻译：

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异梦症的特征和患病率、个体差异及其与生活质量的关系

摘要

客观的

由于现有研究结果尚无定论，本文旨在对日常梦的奇异性进行全面分析，并探讨其与梦的情感质量和做梦者生活质量的关系。

方法

使用两种不同的量表分析了 61 份为期两周的女性梦想日志（502 个梦想），以捕捉报告的奇异品质。梦的情感品质也被分类。在梦日志结束时，参与者填写了 WHOQOL-100 问卷，以评估他们生活质量的不同方面。我们使用描述性统计检查了每天梦中不同形式的扭曲的频率和分布。我们进行了单向方差分析，分析了梦的情绪基调与其奇异性之间的联系。为了探索梦质量的个体差异如何与做梦者的生活质量相关，计算了斯皮尔曼相关性和线性回归。

结果

根据我们的发现，虽然大多数家庭报告的梦境都包含一些离奇的元素，但它们很少是极其不现实的，而且还有相当多的完全平凡的梦境。扭曲不是随机分布的，而是主要与在叙事形成过程中产生的报告部分有关。我们的研究结果表明，日常梦境的奇异性和情绪基调存在显着的个体差异，并且两者都与受试者生活质量的某些方面相关。

结论

这些理论应该受到青睐，它可以容纳不切实际和完全平凡的报告，并且可以解释这种梦想质量的人际差异。