Older adults with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) experience more bad dreams compared to those without GAD

Feeling peaceful in daily life is linked to positive dream experiences

People with anxiety disorders have longer, more negative, and intense dreams

Dream content is often symbolic and represents aspects of waking life

Children with separation anxiety are more likely to have frequent nightmares

Higher levels of trait anxiety were associated with longer dream reports in women

Cultural differences are observed in dream content: Italians showed higher levels of animal imagery and location changes in their dreams compared to Canadians

Nightmares are more common and have stronger links to well-being compared to bad dreams

Children who experienced trauma recalled their dreams more often

Participants with higher levels of anxiety report more dream content related to sexuality

Adolescent girls have a higher prevalence of disturbing dreams compared to boys

Alexithymia trait can have an impact on the richness and quality of dream experience

Depression and anxiety in waking life were related to corresponding characteristics in dream content

The level of stress we feel during the day doesn't predict the emotional tone of our dreams at night

34% of participants experienced an increase in dream recall during the COVID-19 lockdown, with the most common dream themes related to feelings of inefficacy, human threat, death, and the pandemic.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Italians experienced more frequent nightmares and dreams compared to before.

Dreams can reflect and process our emotions and experiences from waking life

Dreams of people with anxiety disorders had more negative emotions, failures, and aggressive interactions, while positive elements were less common

There is a connection between having frequent nightmares and experiencing anxiety

Anxiety can influence the content of dreams, causing them to be more negative, sad, and aggressive

People with anxiety disorders experienced more intense and vivid emotions and had more aversive dreams.

People who are depressed, have trouble sleeping, or feel very tired are more likely to have nightmares often

During the COVID-19 lockdown, people in Italy reported having more dreams and nightmares than usual.

During the first COVID-19 lockdown, many people reported remembering more dreams. The dreams often involved themes of feeling ineffective, being threatened by others, death, and the pandemic.

Therapies that help reduce dream anxiety and emotional pain might help prevent suicide.

Antidepressant medications can effect dream recall.

People who have nightmares often are more likely to commit suicide.

Distressing life events precipitate disturbing dreams in several forms.

Having nightmares often is linked to poorer mental well-being.

Antidepressant therapy can help people with depression remember more dreams and remember them more clearly.

People with major depression often feel anxious about their dreams.

Depressed patients have significantly lower dream recall.

Depressed patients have fewer dreams and those dreams were less vivid and detailed.

Depressed patients have fewer characters in their dreams and especially fewer strangers.

As patients recover from depression, their dream recall rate increases.

Persons who are depressed during a stressful time in their lives, and who incorporate the stressor directly into their dreams appear to "work through" their depression more successfully

People who have a hard time describing their feelings or who think in a very concrete way tend to place less importance on their dreams and have less rich dream experiences.

Individuals with suicidal tendencies had shorter periods before entering REM sleep and spent more time in REM sleep

Poor sleep, bad dreams, and emotional pain might be linked to suicide in people suffering from severe depression

Women going through a divorce had more threatening themes in their dreams compared to married women.

Antidepressants generally decrease dream recall frequency, and tricyclic antidepressants induce more positive dream emotions. Withdrawal from certain antidepressants may cause nightmares.

Dreams of pregnant women can differentiate among women who are or are not at risk for postpartum depression.

People with depression tended to describe their dreams differently - they used fewer words, often saw themselves as outside observers in their dreams.

Meditation affects dream imagery and mood. Meditation can make dreams less negative, and individuals are better able to derive meaningful insights from them.

People with depression who frequently have nightmares, especially women, are more likely to have suicidal tendencies.