Enhancing dream pleasure with Senoi strategy.
A strategy to increase pleasure and reduce displeasure in dreaming and dream-related behaviors involved three skill sessions in which participants (N = 63) practiced (a) positive expectations for content and outcome of dreams; (b) thought stopping for unpleasant dreams; and (c) self-suggestion that dreams would be recalled and would be pleasant. Findings from pre- and post-survey schedules (pleasure and displeasure ) and from a daily dream behavior check list showed that dreaming and behaviors associated with dreaming were significantly more pleasurable 12 weeks after the dream interventions and maintenance of a daily dream record. A 6-month follow-up showed the changes to be still in effect.
D003071:Cognition; D004325:Dreams; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D013404:Suggestion