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Factors Affecting the Continuity Factors Affecting the Continuity
Michael Schredl, Ph.D.
Many researchers are advocating the so-called “continuity hypothesis” of dreaming
which simply states that dreams reflect waking-life experiences. For deriving specific
hypotheses, Schredl (2003) formulated a mathematical model that specifies factors
that affect the probability that certain waking-life experiences are incorporated into
subsequent dreams. The findings of the present diary study indicate that emotional
intensity but not emotional tone of the waking-life events affects the incorporation
into subsequent dreams. It seems very promising to investigate factors that affect the
continuity between waking and dreaming with different methodological paradigms
in order to arrive at a comprehensive, empirically tested, and precise continuity
hypothesis.
| Keywords: dream content, continuity hypothesis |
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