Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation.

ABSTRACT: There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing. However, it is unclear whether dreaming-the subjective experiences we have during sleep-also serves an affect regulation function. Here, we investigated the within-person relationship between negative affect experienced in dreams and next-day waking affect level, affect reactivity, and affect regulation. For 5 days, 40 participants reported their dreams and rated their dream affect and post-sleep waking affect level upon morning awakening. Thereafter, they performed an affect reactivity and regulation task which involved viewing neutral and negative pictures with the instruction either to simply view the pictures or to down-regulate the affect evoked by these pictures. Multilevel regression analyses sh

SUBMITTER: Sikka P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9626956 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature