title: Body perception upon awakening.
abstract: 12 male subjects were evaluated with a battery of body perception measures before sleep and just after awakening. Personality measures were also obtained. The results indicated a borderline, but not significant, trend at the time of awakening for the body boundary to be reduced in definiteness; and there were sensations that one's body is more dirty, that its openings are more blocked, and that its size is of less expansive proportions. There were also trends for the traits of stability and reflectiveness to predict bodily experiences upon awakening.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D003861:Depersonalization; D005260:Female; D006698:Holtzman Inkblot Test; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012649:Self Concept; D012858:Size Perception; D012890:Sleep; D012930:Social Dominance; D012951:Socialization; D014851:Wakefulness