eprintid: 14133
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 192
dir: disk0/00/01/41/33
datestamp: 2012-11-27 11:42:22
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status_changed: 2012-11-27 14:05:17
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Schredl, Michael
title: Dreaming about wearing glasses: Analyzing a long dream series of a short-sighted person
ispublished: pub
subjects: 300
divisions: 851200
keywords: Dream content; continuity hypothesis
abstract: Since the continuity hypothesis of dreaming states that waking life is reflected in dreams, one would expect that something a dreamer has contact with every day would also show up quite frequently in his or her dreams. In order to test this hypothesis, the frequency of glasses appearing within a dream series of 7,747 dreams of a short-sighted person was analyzed. Glasses dreams are quite rare (0.96%). This indicates that novelty and thinking about something are important factors regarding the continuity between waking and dreaming. As some glasses dreams (putting on glasses, cleaning glasses) reflect waking life relatively directly, it would be very interesting to study the meaning of those glasses dreams (e.g., another person breaks the glasses of the dreamer) that are not congruent with the waking life of the dreamer.
date: 2012
date_type: published
id_scheme: ojs
official_url: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/9293
ppn_swb: 1446080048
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-141331
language: eng
bibsort: SCHREDLMICDREAMINGAB2012
full_text_status: none
publication:  International Journal of Dream Research
volume: 5
number: 1
pagerange: 99-101
citation:   Schredl, Michael  (2012) Dreaming about wearing glasses: Analyzing a long dream series of a short-sighted person.   International Journal of Dream Research, 5 (1).  pp. 99-101.