In comparison to psychophysiological variables such as stage of sleep and auditory arousal thresholds, psychological variables such as anxiety, “repression,” and cognitive style have demonstrated little or no relationship to frequency and amount of dream recall. Two studies yielded no support for an hypothesized correlation between amount of dream recall and short-term memory for verbally or visually encoded material. These and related findings are consonant with the infrequency of empirically demonstrated strong relationships between personality variables and amount of dream recall.
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