Sleep and Dreaming in Holocaust Survivors Dramatic Decrease in Dream Recall in WellAdjusted Survivors

Autor: KAMINER, HANNA, LAVIE, PERETZ
Zdroj: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; November 1991, Vol. 179 Issue: 11 p664-669, 6p
Abstrakt: Sleep data were obtained on 12 well-adjusted and 11 less-adjusted Holocaust survivors and on 10 control subjects. Each was also awakened from rapid eye movement sleep for dream recall. The less-adjusted survivors had more prolonged sleep latency than the well-adjusted and the control groups and lower sleep efficiency than the control subjects. The well-adjusted group had a significantly lower dream recall rate (33.7) than the less-adjusted (50.5) and control groups (80). There were also significant between-groups differences in dream structure and dream content, in the direction of less complex and less salient dreams in the well-adjusted survivors. It is suggested that the decrease in dream recall is one of the forms of long-term adjustment to severe traumatic events.
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