More and more Austrians report frequent memory to dreams. Almost 14 percent often have nightmares.
Courtney Bolstad of the Age Research Center in Birmingham in the US state of Alabama and its co-authors from 16 countries on Earth, including Vienna psychologist Brigitte Holzinger, board member of the Austrian Society for Sleep Medicine, recently published their research in the “Journal of Sleep Research”.
A total of 15,854 people between the ages of 18 and 99 participated in the study as part of a COVID-19Slip research project.
The results:
- Weekly or more often in 2021, 54 percent of the participants had a memory of dreams. That was 2.9 percentage points more than in 2019 (51.1 percent; note). In 2021 it was the most common in Brazil with 68.3 percent, most rarely in Germany (39.1 percent).
- For Austria, a share of 60 percent of the respondents with frequent memories of dream episodes after he was woken up in 2021. For 2019, 56.1 percent reported such experiences.
- In 2021, 13.7 percent of the participants in the study in the Alpine Republic reported a current frequency of nightmares (once a week or more). They explained a frequency of 5.8 percent for 2019.
- There was also a change in the frequency of nightmares. In the entire sample, nightmares were reported weekly or more often by eleven percent of the participants in 2021. That was 4.1 percentage points more than in 2019 (6.9 percent). Brazil had the highest value with a frequency of nightmares of 19 percent in 2021, and the share in Israel (3.4 percent) was the least.
Dependence on sleep duration
At least insofar as the memory of “experienced” dream episodes influenced, there was a dependence on sleep duration. In the entire monster, the values were more than nine hours of sleep (71.4 percent/2021; less than six hours: 51 percent). Rare nightmares, on the other hand, had people with an average sleep time of six to nine hours.
*The middle age was around 42 years, 69.9 percent of the participants were women. The sample from Austria consisted of 798 people. The participants must state whether they (2021) have dream memories and/or nightmares and how it was in 2019 (before Pandemieemie). Dream episodes were so often remembered for a week or more often. The same applied to nightmares.
Source: Krone
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