eprintid: 10867
rev_number: 5
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/08/67
datestamp: 2010-07-21 10:55:47
lastmod: 2022-07-18 01:25:21
status_changed: 2012-08-16 08:18:31
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Erlacher, Daniel
creators_name: Schredl, Michael
title: Frequency of sport dreams in athletes
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-300
divisions: i-100500
keywords: dream content; continuity hypothesis; sport activities; athletes; competitions
abstract: Empirical studies largely support the continuity hypothesis of dreaming. For example, it has been shown in past research that sport students dream more often about sports than psychology students do, presumably reflecting their engagement in sport activities and sport theory. The present study tested the hypothesis whether frequency of sport dreams is related to the amount of time spent on waking sport activities for elite athletes. As expected, the amount of time spent with sport activity was directly related to the frequency of sport dreams. Secondly, the amount of competitions was also related. The findings also indicated that other factors such as emotional involvement associated with competitions might be of importance in explaining the relationship between waking activities and dream events. Future studies using longitudinal designs will shed more light on this relationship and will help derive a more precise formulation of the continuity hypothesis.
date: 2010
date_type: published
id_scheme: ojs
official_url: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/584
ppn_swb: 1402553919
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-108674
language: eng
bibsort: ERLACHERDAFREQUENCYO2010
full_text_status: none
publication: International Journal of Dream Research
volume: 3
number: 1
pagerange: 91-94
citation:   Erlacher, Daniel ; Schredl, Michael  (2010) Frequency of sport dreams in athletes.  International Journal of Dream Research, 3 (1).  pp. 91-94.