This study investigated the relationship between fantasy immersion (fantasy proneness, absorption, and positive-constructive daydreaming) and qualities of nocturnal dreaming in a large non-clinical community-based sample (n = 288). The results indicate a strong linear relationship between all of the waking fantasy measures, especially positive-constructive daydreaming style, and phenomenal qualities of dreaming. Further, men and women differed significantly, both in how they experience waking fantasy and with regard to which waking fantasy measures predicted to the dreaming measures. These data suggest that waking and dreaming are not discrete states of consciousness with clearly defined parameters but rather represent continuous attentional states which comprise the “stream of consciousness” endemic to human cognition.
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