How often do you remember your dream? Have you ever known that you dreamed but couldn't recall the details? It turns out that the ability to remember your dreams can be affected by a number of factors.
Italian researchers have studied “Morning Dreams” over the past four years, as on Monday, publishing their findings in a diary Communication psychology. Their work explores how various traits and behaviors seem to affect our ability to wake up to remember our dreams. Understanding the dynamics of morning dreams is of great significance to the dream of the whole dream, a mysterious brain function that continues to escape precise scientific understanding.
“Our findings suggest that dream memories are not only a matter of opportunity, but also reflect the interaction of individual attitudes, cognitive traits and sleep dynamics,” said psychologist Giulio Bernardi, a psychologist at IMT's senior research psychologist Lucca. University Statement. “These insights not only deepen our understanding of the mechanisms behind dreams, but also have implications for exploring the role of dreams in the study of mental health and human consciousness.”
Bernardi and his colleagues studied more than 200 participants between the ages of 18 and 70. The researchers asked participants to record their dreams and wear a sleep monitoring watch over a 15-day period. Before and after this period, participants completed tests and questionnaires on a variety of individual topics, including their interest in dreams, tendencies to be distracted, and levels of anxiety.
The researchers observed various morning dream abilities of the participants as well as several potential influencing factors. For example, people who have positive views on dreams, daydreaming people remember their dreams more frequently. These seasons also seem to play a role, as participants’ dream recalls are higher in spring, rather than winter.
People who spend more time in light sleep and who are generally young people are also more likely to remember their dreams. On the other hand, older people often wake up with the feeling they dream of dreams, but cannot remember their dreams – a phenomenon that researchers call “white dreams.” Interestingly, their “observations support the notion that white dreams represent actual dream experiences, while memories of what they wake up are gradually disappearing.”
“The data collected in the project will serve as a future,” said Valentina Elce, a doctoral student in the fields of cognitive, computing and social neuroscience at the IMT Advanced Research School. References for comparison with clinical populations. “This will allow us to continue to study pathological changes in dreams and their potential prognostic and diagnostic value.”
It is worth highlighting that dreams are self-reported, which makes the study susceptible to bias. But Bernardi, Elce and colleagues’ identification of the potential effects of Morning Dreams still reveals a mysterious brain function that has attracted thousands of years of humanity.
