Dreaming
Dreaming
A publication of ASD International: International Association for the Study of Dreams, founded 1983.

Dreaming

ISSN 1053-0797
eISSN 1573-3351
Open access offered
Published quarterly, beginning in March
Impact factor 0.5
5-year impact factor 0.7
Psychology - Multidisciplinary 187 of 222

Dreaming is a multidisciplinary journal, the only professional journal devoted specifically to dreaming.

The journal publishes scholarly articles related to dreaming from any discipline and viewpoint.

This includes:

  • biological aspects of dreaming and sleep/dream laboratory research
  • psychological articles of any kind related to dreaming
  • clinical work on dreams regardless of theoretical perspective (Freudian, Jungian, existential, eclectic, etc.)
  • anthropological, sociological, and philosophical articles related to dreaming
  • articles about dreaming from any of the arts and humanities

All papers undergo peer review.

Disclaimer: APA and the editors of Dreaming assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its articles.

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Dreaming welcomes submissions that align with its submission guidelines.

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published in the last 5 years

Are we dreaming or are we awake? A quali–quantitative analysis of dream narratives and dreaming process during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Margherita, Giorgia; Gargiulo, Anna; Lemmo, Daniela; Fante, Chiara; Filosa, Maria; Manari, Tommaso; Lenzo, Vittorio; Quattropani, Maria C.; Vegni, Elena; Borghi, Lidia; Castelnuovo, Gianluca; Cattivelli, Roberto; Saita, Emanuela; Franceschini, Christian; Musetti, Alessandro

Nightmare frequency and nightmare distress: Relationship to the big five personality factors and sensory-processing sensitivity.

Carr, Michelle; Heymann, Rina; Lisson, Anna; Werne, Nika Marie; Schredl, Michael

The association between personality traits and stress with nightmare frequency: An online study.

Gessert, Johanna; Schredl, Michael

Lucid dreams in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder include nightmares.

Miller, Katherine E.; Ross, Richard J.; Harb, Gerlinde C.

Media exposure to COVID-19 epidemic and threatening dream frequency: A moderated mediation model of anxiety and coping efficacy.

Guo, Huan; Shen, Heyong

Most downloaded

published in the last 5 years

Trauma or transcendence? The relationship between near-death experiences and dreaming.

Lindsay, Nicole; Tassell-Matamua, Natasha; O'Sullivan, Laura; Gibson, Rosemary

Sigmund Freud’s contributions to dream science.

Erdelyi, Matthew Hugh

Flying dreams stimulated by targeted movement and sound: Art and science in the dream hotel.

Haar Horowitz, Adam; Höller, Carsten; Hildebrand, Dominik; Di Chio, Nicola; Carr, Michelle; Picard-Deland, Claudia; Riskin, Seth; Maes, Pattie

Impact of childhood trauma on dreams in adulthood: An Argentine survey.

Parra, Alejandro

Who has lucid dreams? Individual difference correlates of the frequency of lucid dreams.

Varnum, Michael E. W.; Varnum, Clara B. B.

Dreaming in the spotlight

The Sleeping Hermaphrodite

Lucid dreams: From lab validation to real-world applications

A special issue of Dreaming examines the current frontier of lucid dream research
APA Journals Article Spotlight
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Nightmares in adults: Symptoms, causes, and innovative, science-backed therapies

Scientists are uncovering what causes disturbing dreams and identifying effective treatments
Monitor on Psychology
Special section: Relationship of nightmares with waking variables

Special section: Relationship of nightmares with waking variables

A special section in this APA Journals Article Spotlight in Dreaming, explores the complex relationship between waking variables and nightmares and what these disturbing dreams can reveal about dreamers’ waking lives.
APA Journals Article Spotlight

Why do we dream?

Mark Blagrove, PhD, talks about what we know—and don’t know—about why we dream
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In brief: Jump in drug overdoses among older adults, a blood test for anxiety, and more research

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