The individual determinants of morning dream recall.

Communications Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI:10.1038/s44271-025-00191-z

Valentina Elce, Damiana Bergamo, Giorgia Bontempi, Bianca Pedreschi, Michele Bellesi, Giacomo Handjaras, Giulio Bernardi

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Abstract

Evidence suggests that (almost) everyone dreams during their sleep and may actually do so for a large part of the night. Yet, dream recall shows large interindividual variability. Understanding the factors that influence dream recall is crucial for advancing our knowledge regarding dreams' origin, significance, and functions. Here, we tackled this issue by prospectively collecting dream reports along with demographic information and psychometric, cognitive, actigraphic, and electroencephalographic measures in 217 healthy adults (18-70 y, 116 female participants, 101 male participants). We found that attitude towards dreaming, proneness to mind wandering, and sleep patterns are associated with the probability of reporting a dream upon morning awakening. The likelihood of recalling dream content was predicted by age and vulnerability to interference. Moreover, dream recall appeared to be influenced by night-by-night changes in sleep patterns and showed seasonal fluctuations. Our results provide an account for previous observations regarding inter- and intra-individual variability in morning dream recall.

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晨梦回忆的个体决定因素。

有证据表明（几乎）每个人在睡觉的时候都会做梦，而且可能在晚上的大部分时间里都会做梦。然而，梦的回忆显示出很大的个体差异。了解影响梦回忆的因素对于提高我们对梦的起源、意义和功能的认识至关重要。在这里，我们通过前瞻性地收集217名健康成年人（18-70岁，116名女性，101名男性）的梦报告以及人口统计信息、心理测量、认知、活动图和脑电图测量来解决这个问题。我们发现，对做梦的态度、走神的倾向和睡眠模式都与早晨醒来时报告做梦的可能性有关。回忆梦境内容的可能性由年龄和易受干扰的程度来预测。此外，梦的回忆似乎受到睡眠模式夜间变化的影响，并表现出季节性波动。我们的结果为先前关于晨梦回忆的个体间和个体内部差异的观察提供了一个解释。

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