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• Title: How Dream Recall Frequency Shapes People's Beliefs About the Content of Their Dreams.
• Author : North American Journal of Psychology
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 207 KB

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Questionnaire studies often rely on self-report evaluations of past dream experiences to assess people's dream content. This approach, however, assumes that there exists a valid relationship between self-reported information on the content of one's everyday dreams and the dream experiences themselves. The goal of the present study was to test the idea that the way people construct beliefs about the content of their dreams depends on their level of dream recall frequency (DRF). Specifically, it was hypothesized that a) when memories of past dreams are readily available (i.e. when DRF is high), people's beliefs about their general dream content are closely related to their actual dream experiences, and b) when such memories are not easily available (i.e. when DRF is low), people's beliefs about their dream content is influenced by their affective state. Participants' (n = 84) affective state and belief about the degree of anxiety in their everyday dreams were assessed via self-reported questionnaires while DRF and dream content variables were calculated from a daily dream log. The results support the hypotheses and suggest that the beliefs people hold about the content of their dreams are not necessarily valid reflections of their actual dream experiences. Questionnaire studies have played and continue to play an important role in the scientific tradition of inquiry into dream content (e.g. Jacka, 1990). In these kinds of studies, participants' retrospective self-reported information concerning their dream experiences is viewed as a modest but valid way of assessing different aspects of the dream experiences themselves. But to what extent are our beliefs about various characteristics of our dream life an accurate portrayal of our everyday dream experiences? Are we correct in assuming that correlates of these beliefs are also correlates of the actual dream experiences?

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