recurrent dream

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Sixty percent reported that they had had recurrent dreams, many beginning in childhood.
Typical threat-simulation dreams, such as nightmares and recurrent dreams, are thus composed of a variable mixture of salient, episodic memory traces and suitable threat-simulation scripts.
All of this is in accordance with the view that the most typical recurrent dreams are powerful threat simulations.
Three questions not solved by revonsuo's theory are: (1) why are realistic threat perceptions absent from many if not most recurrent dreams?
Many recurrent dreams and nightmares are unrealistic because they are imaginally metaphoric and free-associative; just like our own language when freed from goal-directed constraint.
It would appear that a great many recurrent dreams are not realistic rehearsals of a threatening event but rather pictorial metaphors of current concerns.
In the light of these results, there is no doubt that most (though not all) recurrent dreams can be regarded as threat simulations.
Research results support the generic clinical dream theory that recurrent dreams are associated with the presence of unresolved stressors.
First, being chased is the most common theme in the recurrent dreams of both children and adults.
Finally, the content of over 30% of all recurrent dreams is idiosyncratic and in great part unrelated to any threats.
These images, still "indelible" thirty months afterwards, often appeared in terrifying, recurrent dreams.
In sum, the data indicate that many recurrent dreams, and possibly nightmares, do not include situations critical for physical survival and reproductive success.
Recurrent dreams and nightmares are often like this.
This is the most frequently reported dream theme in studies of both typical dreams and recurrent dreams.
He views recurrent dreams as an example of this function.
What is the thematic content of the remaining 50 to 60% of recurrent dreams?
Houshi (1983) asked 123 university students whether they had ever had recurrent dreams, and if so, they were asked to describe them.
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