There is no dreamless sleep: we all dream, but some of us when you awaken every detail, others have only the feeling to have dreamed (the so -called white dreams), still others think they have not dreamed at all.
What factors do they affect the ability to remember dreams? In the past, many studies have asked for it and now an Italian research, conducted from 2020 to 2024 by the IMT School high studies Lucca, investigated the matter once again. The results are published on Communications Psychology.
Who participated. The research involved beyond 200 participants between 18 and 70 years of ageto whom he was asked to report their dreams every day for 15 days while wearing some Wearable That they recorded cognitive and sleep data. The authors also took into account several factors such as anxiety levels, interest in dreams, the tendency to wander with the mind, memory and selective attention of the participants.
Identikit of a dreamer. From the results it emerged that those who better remember the adventures imagined during the night are a young person, with a positive attitude towards dreams, who tend to wander with the mind and whose sleep is characterized by long and light phases; The oldest, on the other hand, tend to make white dreams, that is, to perceive upon awakening that they have dreamed without knowing what.
An unexpected role would play the season: In the spring we remember dreams more than in winterperhaps due to the influence of environmental factors or linked to the circadian rhythms.
Dreams and health. «Remembering dreams is not the result of the case, but a Reflex of the interaction between the cognitive traits, the dynamics of sleep and the personal attitudes of each of us», Underlines Giulio Bernardi, one of the authors of the study. According to the expert, what has been discovered, the foundations for studying the role of dreams in mental health and human consciousness lays out. The next step, concludes the research coordinator Valentina Elce, is to study the pathological alterations of sleep and their potential prognostic and diagnostic value.
