PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dream Story
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Rem dreams are vivid, emotional, and often bizarre so vivid we may confuse them with reality. awakening from a nightmare, a 4-year-old may be sure there is a bear in the house. We spend six years of our life in dreams, many of which are anything but sweet. For both women and men, 8 in 10 dreams are marked by at least one negative event or emotion (domhoff, 2007). Common themes are repeatedly failing in an attempt to do something; being attacked, pursued, or rejected; or experiencing misfortune (hall et al. , 1982). Dreams with sexual imagery occur less often than you might think. in one study, only 1 in 10 dreams among young men and 1 in 30 among young women had sexual content (domhoff, 1996). More commonly, a dream"s story line incorporates traces of previous days" nonsexual experiences and preoccupations (de koninck, 2000):
