2025/08/11 by Jessica Palmieri, Valentina Elce, Monika Schönauer · 1 voice
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Content (measure theory) #Developmental psychology #Dream #Emotionality #Eye movement #Lucid dream #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neuroscience #Nightmare #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Rapid eye movement sleep #Recall #Sleep (system call) #Sleep and Wakefulness Research #Sleep and related disorders
paper · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109248
openalex publication_date 2025/08/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
= 61). Additionally, they rated the emotional intensity of their experiences using a structured cued questionnaire. Emotional intensity in dreams increased significantly throughout the night, with late-night dreams being more emotional than dreams collected during earlier sleep. Contrary to our expectation, this increase was not driven by dream reports obtained from REM sleep awakenings. Moreover, late-night dream reports were also significantly longer than those from early sleep, yet the length of the dream reports did not correlate with their emotional intensity. This suggests that the emotionality of dreams is not directly linked to the ability to recall the dream or its narrative complexity. Instead, it could be driven by emotional processes occurring independently throughout the night, or by other factors that regulate our access to dream experiences and their emotional content.