Facilitating the Reportage of Dreams with Semantic Cues
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Imagination, Cognition and Personality
- Vol. 9 (2) , 115-129
- https://doi.org/10.2190/wbfl-rbeg-va3w-0g7k
Abstract
Three experiments investigated dream reports from the previous night. The major hypothesis tested was that the reportage of dreams could be facilitated with cues. Three different types of cues were examined: semantic cues related to the themes of dreams, event cues related to experiences from the day before the dream, and color-names. On the whole, cuing increased the reportage of dreams beyond free-recall, with semantic cues related to the theme of dreams being the most effective prompts. The results were discussed in terms of findings from the study of amnesia and theories of memory that emphasize the retrieval cuing.Keywords
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