I rarely remember dreams and only for a very short period of time!
This study is about Italian dreamers (study participants)! Dolce vita dreams? 😊
Sleep tight, dream less! 😊 The mystery of dreaming continues ...
"... Our ability to remember dreams upon waking is called dream recall. But the factors that influence this ability are little understood. Now, new research led by the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, in Italy, reveals that both individual characteristics and external factors are important. ...
From 2020 to 2024, the team engaged more than 200 participants across a wide age range (18 to 70). Each participant was given a voice recorder and instructed to verbally record their dreams immediately upon waking. They did this every day for 15 days, reporting whether or not they remembered dreaming, if they remembered anything about the experience, and if so, what occurred during the dream. ..."
"... We found that morning dream reports were predicted by attitude towards dreaming, proneness to mind wandering, and long light sleep ...
Contrary to previous research we did not find significant effects of age and sex on dream recall (i.e., higher recall in younger individuals and female individuals). However, we noted a significant relationship between sex and attitude towards dreaming, with the latter being higher in female volunteers ..."
From the 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."
The individual determinants of morning dream recall (open access)
Fig. 1: Description of the experimental protocol and collected data.
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