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Researchers say almost every human dreams several times at night, but the average person only remembers dreaming about half the time. And while some people remember every night's dreams, others have virtually no dream recall.
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In this study, published in the May issue of Personality and Individual Differences, researchers attempted to sort out some of the individual differences that might contribute to variation in dream recall.
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When researchers looked at personality traits that contributed to dream recall, they found people who were prone to absorption, imaginativeness, daydreaming, and fantasizing were most likely to remember their dreams.
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"There is a fundamental continuity between how people experience the world during the day and at night," says researcher David Watson, a professor of psychology at the University of Iowa, in a news release. "People who are prone to daydreaming and fantasy have less of a barrier between states of sleep and wakefulness and seem to more easily pass between them."
On thing to remember is:
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But students who had inconsistent sleep schedules tended to report more dreams during sleep.
Given Ni is the ability to deal with information on the basis of it's possible existence (Ne on the basis of it's hidden potential), that is, Ni is in not just in some passing way connected with imagination, given it's an inner wholeness.
Well, I just wonder if it's something to consider, that Ni types tend to recall their dreams more.
Or .... state your type, your 'imaginativeness, daydreaming, and fantasizing', and your dreami-ness ...
http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2...403dreams.html
By the way - if someone recalls a dream and it sounds so far fetched maybe they made it up, maybe not so....
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David Watson, a professor of psychology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, David Watson, a professor of psychology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that the more bizarre a dream was the more likely his subjects were to remember it.