9/11 Changed our Dreams
Ernest Hartmann and Tyler Brezler MD of Tufts University School of Medicine; Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Boston, MA conducted a study of dreams, comparing dreams before and after September 11, 2001. The study compares dreams of the same person before and after the 9/11 attacks by the same people, beginning with the assumption produced some level of trauma or emotional arousal in those that lived in the US at that time.
The study examined the journaled dreams of 44 people who had been keep records of their dreams before September eleventh. Study subjects had recorded at least 20 dreams prior to 9/11.
The results of the study showed a “highly significant increase in central image intensity, as well as central image proportion (number of dreams with scorable central images) but no change in dream length, dream-likeness, overall vividness, or content involving airplanes or tall buildings. There were no “exact replay” dreams picturing the actual events of 9/11 seen repeatedly on TV. “
From: Sleep Journal
http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?citationid=3465
