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Dreams and Contemporary Stress: A Disruption-Avoidance-Adaptation Model

Author(s) -

Janet Wright,

David Koulack

Publication year - 1987

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.1093/sleep/10.2.172

Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , dream , cognitive psychology , avoidance behaviour , neuroscience , developmental psychology

A disruption-avoidance-adaptation model is proposed to provide a framework for understanding the seemingly disparate findings from studies of dream function. The model is based on the notion that there is an oscillation between disruption of sleep caused by dreaming about a stressful stimulus followed by an avoidance of the stimulus in order to achieve homeostasis. The oscillation is postulated to continue until there is adaptation to the disruptive stimulus. Continuity is assumed to exist between waking and sleeping experience.

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