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01.12.2010 | Original Paper

Nightmare frequency and nightmare topics in a representative German sample

verfasst von: Michael Schredl

Erschienen in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Ausgabe 8/2010

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Abstract

Nightmares are defined as disturbing mental experiences that generally occur during REM sleep and often result in awakening. Whereas the number of publications addressing nightmare frequency and psychopathology, nightmare etiology and treatment is increasing rapidly in the last few years, nightmare content has been studied very rarely in a systematic way, especially in adults. The present study investigated nightmare frequency and the frequency of various nightmare topics in a representative German sample. The five most common themes were falling, being chased, paralyzed, being late, and the deaths of close persons. Even though several effects can be explained by the continuity hypothesis of dreaming, further research is needed to investigate the possible metaphoric relationship between nightmare topics like falling or being chased and waking-life stressors.

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Titel: Nightmare frequency and nightmare topics in a representative German sample
verfasst von: Michael Schredl
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2010
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Ausgabe 8/2010
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-010-0112-3

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