TY  - JOUR
N2  - Past research has shown that high-end video game play is associated with bizarre dreams (Gackenbach, Kuruvilla, & Dopko, 2009a). The purpose of this study was to determine if the higher bizarreness in gamers? dreams could be replicated and if so, to inquire if it is due to the unusual worlds they are exposed to during video game play, or to higher creativity. Through a questionnaire, a two-week dream diary and face-to-face administration of two creativity tests, this study partially replicated the bizarreness advantage associated with gaming previously found. This time number of hours playing a video game the night before was controlled. It was also found that video game play history is related to figural creativity. The positive bizarreness, gaming, creativity association was partially confirmed for males while video game play was associated negatively with bizarreness for women with no creativity link. In separate and joint factor analyses of the major variable clusters (i.e., media use including gaming, bizarreness, and creativity) it was clear that any associations were to gaming and not to other media use the day before the dream.
ID  - heidok14142
KW  - video game
KW  -  dream
KW  -  dream bizarreness
KW  -  creativity
KW  -  Torrance Tests of Creativity
KW  -  electronic media
KW  -  dream content analysis
UR  - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/9080
AV  - none
IS  - 1
VL  - 5
A1  - Gackenbach, Jayne Isabel
A1  - Dopko, Raelyne
JF  - International Journal of Dream Research
EP  - 36
Y1  - 2012///
TI  - The relationship between video game play, dream bizarreness, and creativity
SP  - 23
ER  -