title: "They who dream by day": parallels between Openness to Experience and dreaming.
abstract: Individuals high in the personality trait Openness to Experience appear to engage spontaneously (during wake) in processes of elaborative encoding similar to those Llewellyn identifies in both dreaming and the ancient art of memory (AAOM). Links between Openness and dreaming support the hypothesis that dreaming is part of a larger process of cognitive exploration that facilitates adaptation to new experiences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. cdeyoung@umn.edu rachael.grazioplene@gmail.com http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cdeyoung/
authors.forename: Colin G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: DeYoung
authors.forename: Rachael G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Grazioplene
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*