Dreams and the creative process

Giovacchini, Peter L.

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1966.tb01319.x

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“…Some evidence from anecdotes [13], clinical cases [14], and studies [4,15] has supported the view that waking creativity is associated with implausible or bizarre dream content. Furthermore, Hartmann has reported that individuals with chronic nightmares tend to be unusually artistic [16].…”

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Do Creative People Have More Bizarre Dreams? A Reconsideration

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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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“…[74]. Kreative Individuen können sich nicht nur häufiger an ihre Träume erinnern [84], ihre Träume sind auch ideenreicher [82], einzigartiger und komplexer [96] sowie vermehrt von primärprozesshaftem Denken geprägt [21,40]. Kritisiert wurden Berichte über den Zusammenhang zwischen Trauminhalten und Kreativität jedoch mit dem Hinweis auf verschiedene Traumlängen, die möglicherweise Artefakte in den Befunden erzeugen [61,81,101].…”

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“…Hawkins (1966) states, 'Freud either did not make up his mind about this issue or varied in his point of view from time to time. ' Giovacchini (1966) states, concerning the question of whether the dream has problem-solving qualities, 'Freud felt divided on this point. ' Since it seems to me that Freud's position on this matter was entirely consistent and unequivocal, it may be worth while to document the evidence that supports this view.…”

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Freud's position on problem solving in dreams

Lipton

1967

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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Dreams and the creative process

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Do Creative People Have More Bizarre Dreams? A Reconsideration

Do Creative People Have More Bizarre Dreams? A Reconsideration

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Freud's position on problem solving in dreams

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