Creativity, Sleep and Primary Process Thinking in Dreams

Sladeczek, Ingrid E.; Domino, George

doi:10.1002/j.2162-6057.1985.tb00402.x

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“…Davis (1992) describes the activity of the unconscious as "mysterious mental happenings" (p. 50). Sladeczek and Domino (1985) noted that 28 out of their 30 creative subjects indicated that they have solved their problems or other challenges through their dreams. They also noted significantly more regressive content, dream distortions, and visual mentation in the dream protocols of creative subjects (see also Domino, 1976Domino, , 1982.…”

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Hypnotizability, Creative Capacity, Creativity Styles, Absorption, and Phenomenological Experience During Hypnosis

Manmiller¹,

Kumar²,

Pekala³

2005

Creativity Research Journal

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Section: Creativity and Hypnosis: Absorption Unconscious Processes mentioning

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Hypnotizability, Creative Capacity, Creativity Styles, Absorption, and Phenomenological Experience During Hypnosis

Manmiller¹,

Kumar²,

Pekala³

2005

Creativity Research Journal

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“…Sladeczek and Domino [18] found that the dreams of adults judged creative were more "distorted," "regressive" and visual than those of adults not judged creative. Cann and Donderi reported a significant positive correlation between subjects' Intuition scores on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the frequency with which these subjects reported "archetypal" dreams [19].…”

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“…Furthermore, Hartmann has reported that individuals with chronic nightmares tend to be unusually artistic [16]. But the strongest and most direct empirical evidence of a link between creativity and dream implausibility comes from three studies by Domino [17], Sladeczek and Domino [18], and Cann and Donderi [19].…”

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Do Creative People Have More Bizarre Dreams? A Reconsideration

Wood

Sebba

Domino

1989

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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An attempt was made to replicate earlier studies which have found a relation between waking creativity and dream bizarreness. Two-week dream diaries were collected from 126 undergraduates and the dreams scored for bizarreness using Auld's Primary Process Scale and Kluger's Everydayness Scale. Subjects were also administered four commonly used tests of creativity as well as a test of vocabulary knowledge. Dream bizarreness was found to correlate significantly with scores on some but not all the tests of creativity. However, bizarreness correlated most highly with subjects' level of vocabulary knowledge. Furthermore, partial correlations of creativity test scores with dream bizarreness were not statistically significant when subjects' level of vocabulary knowledge was controlled for. The authors conclude that the connection between waking creativity and dream bizarreness has not been convincingly demonstrated, and that earlier researchers may have found an association between the two because they failed to control for subjects' verbal intelligence and for dream report length. Data is also provided concerning the relation of creativity to dream recall frequency.The idea of a connection between creativity and dreams is as old as the Romantic poets [1,2] and as new as the most contemporary dream research:So highly socialized are we to accept our given wake-state role that we fail to recognize the clear-cut evidence of our dreams that each of us possesses creative capability. Each of us is a surrealist at night during his or her dreams: each is a Picasso, a Dali, a Fellini-the delightful and the macabre mixed in full measure [3, p. 297).3

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“…With regard to dream content, Livingston and Levin (1991) challenged Sladeczek and Domino's (1985) finding of more bizarre dreams in creative individuals. Livingston and Levin reported that this effect might be explained by dream length (i.e., creative individuals report longer dreams, which are more bizarre due to the length of the report).…”

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Self-Reported Effects of Dreams on Waking-Life Creativity: An Empirical Study

Schredl

Erlacher

2007

The Journal of Psychology

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ABSTRACT. The authors studied the self-rated effect of dreams on creativity in participants who were not selected for creative abilities. Students {N = 444) and online respondents (A' = 636) answered a questionnaire about dreams and creative dreams. In addition, the students completed several personality measures and creativity scales. Results indicated that dreams that stimulated waking-life creativity played a considerable role in the lives of ordinary people (about 8% of all dreams). Examples reported by the online participants fell into 4 categories: (a) dream images used for art, work, or similar areas; (b) dreams that solved a problem; (c) dreams that provided the impetus to do something that the dreamer otherwise had difficulty doing; and (d) dreams containing emotional insights. The main factors influencing frequency of creative dreams were dream recall frequency and the thin boundaries personality dimension. Future researchers should use diary techniques to study the effects of dreams on waking life and should develop techniques to increase the frequency of creative dreams that might be valuable as aids for people in creative jobs.

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Creativity, Sleep and Primary Process Thinking in Dreams

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Hypnotizability, Creative Capacity, Creativity Styles, Absorption, and Phenomenological Experience During Hypnosis

Hypnotizability, Creative Capacity, Creativity Styles, Absorption, and Phenomenological Experience During Hypnosis

Do Creative People Have More Bizarre Dreams? A Reconsideration

Self-Reported Effects of Dreams on Waking-Life Creativity: An Empirical Study

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